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Making the case for content curation

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It can be accomplished through simple statistics – how many people have downloaded this game? But perhaps most significantly, curation is realised through the algorithms of search engines such as Google and Bing, which, in theory at least, provide users with search listings ordered by relevance. There is something in this argument.

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How we spend our time in the UK

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The statistics suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day – almost half their waking lives - "engaging in media and communications activities" The article goes on: “However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.

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Research just got a whole load easier

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What happened in the past was that I had to hunt through shelves of books and piles of magazines trying to find that quote or statistic that I knew I'd read somewhere, often to no avail. We've started to use Google Docs for this purpose, which does the job, but means I have to keep two systems running in parallel.

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A first look at Sakai 3

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Let me quote you from the Sakai 3 whitepaper: "In summary, our ambition is not merely an incremental improvement of Sakai nor is it to copy Google. It is possible to create new 'sites' simply by searching for members with certain characteristics. Our goal is not simply to create a better and cheaper version of Blackboard.