Curation about curation
For a June 10 workshop on curation, I curated content about curation. I was leading the workshop for the staff of the Middletown Press on the final day of a weeklong visit to Connecticut newsrooms of the Journal Register Co. As I often do, I decided to crowdsource advice and examples for the workshop.
Tweeps responded to my request with tips and examples that proved useful. I used some in the workshop and all of them here. Our JRC colleague Ivan Lajara in Kingston, N.Y., was especially helpful.
A Twittersation about sex (research)Kingston New York daily newspaper covering local, regional, and national news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and classified advertising. Two Indiana University studies conducted among nationally representative samples of adult American men and women show that vibrator use during sexual interactions is common, with use being reported by approximately 53 percent of women and 45 percent of men ages 18 to 60.The Kingston Daily Freeman Blogs: Life, I wrote.: Twitter fight!
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Live tweets from the trial of Jarrin 'Phat Boy' RankinKINGSTON - The man who authorities say set up the February 2010 murder of Charles "C.J." King Jr.- Here's that link. As you'll see shortly, plane crashes were a recurring theme of the day.
Amsterdam plane crash: Twitter, social media, and the anatomy of a disasterThe playing out of major events in the world of blogs and social media is becoming an ever more familiar tale. Today's plane crash just outside Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam broke first on Twitter, the popular microblogging service. Jonathan Nip, who lived near the scene of the accident, was one of the first to tweet about the crash.
An overview of Journal Register Company’s ideaLab #jrcchat on TwitterAn overview of the conversation on Journal Register Company’s ideaLab #jrcchat on Twitter on June 8, 2011.- After I tweeted in advance of the workshop, Matt DeRienzo, JRC publisher of the Register Citizen in Torrington, CT, made a good suggestion:
I was pleased to see by tweets that people were joining us by livestream (and one from the conference room).
