Robin Good: If it is true that *attention* is the one of the highest valued intangible assets, whoever is capable to provide a solution that saves people time (and frustration, effort, comparing, verifying, etc.) in getting what they want / need, will likely get lots of it.For example, if I could save you all of the time that you would need to:- find all the journalists that could cover your... Read more

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Robin Good: "When we curate content online, it enhances who we are, both in the sense of... - we learn things, and we help to define ourselves by understanding our own interests - and in a more external way, by allowing other people to better understand who we are.It becomes part of our ethos, part of our personal brand."Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University offers an interesting insight into... Read more

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Robin Good: "Curation is not about ownership. Its not about proprietary rights to whatever environment or resource or experience you create.The job of a curator, Paolo Antonelli reminds me, is not to take and possess but to show and educate.The job of a curator is to make ideas accessible to as many people as possible.Because creativity is about more than copyrights and patents. Its about inspiring people to make something,... Read more

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Robin Good: Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic.The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways.The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to... Read more

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Robin Good: Google has just introduced "Collections", for Google+, a new service which allows any Google+ user to group his posts by topic and to create public, shareable collections of his favorite links, articles, videos and images.To use Google Collections, simply go to your G+ profile page and then select "Collections" on the drop down menu appearing on the top left part of the page."Each collection can be shared publicly,... Read more

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Robin Good: At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed.While the full keynote and the QA with the audience is recorded in full in this 55' mins long video, I have summarised here below his key points and takeaways, so that... Read more

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Robin Good: "If you can be a guide, a clearinghouse, a trusted place from where to learn, appreciate and understand more, there is no amount of outbound links that is going to counter the magnetic force you will express to those who are interested in what you are pointing to."This is why the fear every company has about content curation - talking about *others* in the same field - has... Read more

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At the crossroad of journalism and entrepreneurship sits a new emerging profession, made up in good part by the skills of the classic journalist, in part by those of the researcher, of the librarian and of the new emerging content curator mixed in with those of the capable independent digital entrepreneur.

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The information-entrepreneur is someone interested in creating ethical and highly reputable commercial services, tools and organizations that can augment, satisfy and fulfill humans deep or specialty interests within a specific information area.
Information startups have little or nothing to do with what is generally referred to as info-preneurship. The infopreneur has become the stereotype for who sells informations (of whatever quality level) to make money online. Thus, the field, the people who promote it and the information you can find online by searching for this topic, is not of high quality and is specifically driven by a “sell as much as possible, no matter how you do it”, making-money attitude.

But info-marketers and info-preneurs, may have been unaware precursors of a new breed of very serious information entrepreneurs that are eager to develop and put together useful and very targeted professional information services.

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