Month: December 2011
-
The 3 Pillars of Content Curation (Redux)
My post about the 3 pillars of content curation elicited some good comments and debate around where self-curation fits within the model that I set out. My thought had been that it went across everything, but (in addition to this) that there was a passive and an active part of each element. The comments helped…
-
Post Of The Month – November 2011 – The Winner
A close run vote this month between Noah Brier's excellent post on the stock and flow of content strategy, and Bret Victor's brief rant on the future of interaction design, but in the end the latter won through (just). So well done Bret – you get the props of your blogging peers and are entered…
-
Post Of The Month – November 2011 – The Vote
Another great shortlist, so thanks to all those that nominated. Our shortlist is between: How Mastering Stock And Flow WIll Boost Your Content Strategy by Noah Brier My ICT Teacher Can't Mark My Homework from Emma MulQueeny A Brief Rant On The Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor The Social Graph Is Neither by Maciej Ceglowski From Destination…
-
Post Of The Month – November 2011 – Nominations
Time again to open up to nominations for Post Of The Month. A particularly fertile month for good thinking and writing so very hard to narrow down to a few starting posts, but I've listed my own favourites below. Please do nominate your own good reads that were posted in the month of November in the…
-
The 3 Pillars of Content Curation
Curation is already becoming an overused word but it's an increasingly important one. Not least because the way in which we discover content that we like or find useful, and how it gets in front of us or gets our attention, is changing radically. With an explosion of choice and noise, and attention becoming the…
-
Teach Our Kids To Code
"Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made." Eric Schmidt I think our education system is letting down our kids. And it's a curriculum issue. Instead of opening young minds to the creative possibilities and empowering potential of open software and computing, our ICT (Information and Communication…