Data Visualisation: The Ugly Duckling Parable
Tweet Something very strange is happening in the world of data. It’s along the lines of this: Imagine being born a statistic forever relegated to the boring part of the presentation that sends people to sleep. Then all of a sudden, a dramatic transformation occurs and those statistics and data are turn into something truly beautiful. Now seen as an object of beauty and a tool of engagement, the statistic rightfully claims its place in the...
Read MoreLazy Bugger’s Guide to Content Curation
Tweet Everybody’s talking about Content Curation – which is cool for us considering it’s basically our name said backwards – but how many people are actually doing it? The answer is not that many, really. Or maybe we should say not that many, yet. Maybe everyone’s put off by how complicated it all sounds…which is where we come in. Complicated Shmomplicated. Welcome to the lazy bugger’s guide to Content Curation! Pick a...
Read MoreCuration: Understanding the Social Fire Hose
Tweet As the tragic events of Oslo unfolded, so too did the importance of content curation in the social sphere. Some interesting commentary on the reporting of the Oslo massacre by FastCompany further advances the vital role of content curators in piecing together time-lines of events as they actually unfold based on real-time tweets. Now this is nothing new. We know that social media channels, in particular Twitter, have been used for...
Read MoreGoogle Panda: Black & White and read all over?
Tweet Whatever it is those good old Google boys are putting on their breakfast cereal – it’s working. Google +, Google Panda…Google on a Hot Tin Roof! (OK, we may have made that last one up) Point being: it’s on – especially on the content front, and if you’re not on with it, then you can kiss that page ranking goodbye and go back to cracking coconuts for a living. So what exactly does the (formally confirmed by Google on...
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