The Rise of Hacker Journalism: When Word is Not Enough
Tweet Occasionally here at Curated Content HQ, we read a blog or article that sparks plenty of lively debate, low ball humour or lousy word plays like in the title. And sometimes the discussion turns into an opportunity to change the way the game is played. Obviously for a blog to have the ‘tool up’ effect, it needs to pack a pretty intense message. And it did. For starters it called journalists ‘geeks’. Then things got really crazy...
Read More2012: The Year for Visual Content?
Tweet Rather than take a number in the ‘Top Ten trends for 2012’ SEO queue, we thought we’d do something a little different: make one big bold prediction for 2012, and just put it out there. That way if we’re wrong, the blog title for this time next year will read: 2012: The Year for Visual Content? (Nope) We’re a content company, creating and curating all kinds of content for our clients, so most of our thinking on this comes...
Read MoreInfographic of Australia’s Top 30 Ad Agencies
Tweet Here’s an infographic we had a lot of fun with. The only data we had to work with was Mumbrella’s Top 30 Advertising Agencies numbered one to thirty. The rest of the research we completed based on two criteria: 1. what was accessible 2. what we thought might tell an interesting story and possibly present a different perspective. If you work in an advertising agency, especially one of the top 30, then we recommend...
Read MoreWhy You Need to Visualize Big Data
Tweet We live in an age of data. It’s everywhere. From the basic metric package that tells you how many people visited your blog on cheese to the thousands of pieces of data and analytics that flow daily into the clutches of Big business – it’s everywhere we look and shaping everything we do. And now, we want to see it. According to a recent article on Big Data by the highly respected business outfit, McKinsey...
Read MoreInfographic on NFL Teams’ Social Media Followers
Tweet U.S. gridiron teams are competitive off-field as well. This infographic shows the top (and bottom) teams in terms of social media follows. By Column Five...
Read MoreWhy the Infographic is the Next Australian Content Trend
Tweet Everywhere you turn, people are talking about content. But let’s face it, there’s just so much written content on screen you can read before your eyeballs drop out of their sockets and bounce off the keyboard. Enter the infographic, the most revolutionary content innovation we’ve seen since the advent of the LOL Cat video (and slightly more useful to society) and one that represents a fundamental shift in online content...
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