About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’m on the local police department’s email announcement list.
Earlier today, a ‘suspicious activity’ alert went out possible attempted burglary.
Just now, I received the clarifying email:
“…we have determined that the attempted burglary was, in fact, an individual who went to the wrong address.”
This message says so many good things about the police department, the neighborhood, and the accuracy of GPSs.
In last night’s talk with MN ISPI on wikis, blogs, etc – the issue of citing Wikipedia as a source came up.
Like citing the 1911 version of Brittanica is the same as citing the current version.
A strawman argument.
One based on false assumptions. Assumptions that established organizations don’t have biases, aren’t infallible, and that knowledge doesn’t change.
As you know, all three are false.
Should a publishing organization be a trusted source simply because they’ve published for a century? The National Enquirer is almost there.
I’ve written before about my issues with newspaper organizations before, and it comes down to trust.
I don’t trust newspaper organizations to regularly publish information relevant to me, while there are great number of websites I do trust.
Part of this comes down to frequency of publication. There are blogs1 that publish when there’s nothing (or nothing more) to say and I have the same issue with them.
The other part is find-ability, share-ability. Both of which are tough in online or hardcopy versions of papers (also in a number of blogs as well).
All of this factors into trusti-ness of a source, not just age.
Perhaps this is me growing weary of ‘journalism‘ framed as Something Special People Do rather than something we all do (or at least can do).
Frankly, in a world of instant publishing, I trust a mass of crazy people working for free much more than organization with a well designed masthead.
Elsewhere:
Sheldon’s entire list is spot on.
1. Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, TechDirt immediately come to mind.
If you’ve ever wondered what New York would be like if it remained a Dutch colony until the late 1700s?
I’m thankful we finally have an answer.
“New Netherland achieved independence in 1798, after the ‘old’ Netherlands were overrun by the French. Philip Schuyler, the last Director-General of the colony, became the first Prime Minister of the independent Republic. Influential successors were PMs Maarten van Buren (1820-1856)…”
As I’ve mentioned before, our lives are multi-faceted. Each facet has its own community of trusted experts. Some are friends, other are colleagues, or simply authoritative in their field.
If you’ve been following my development of Cullect, then you know early on, I switched from the label ‘Editors’ to ‘Curators’ to describe the people behind a reading list.
Curation better describes the what I see as a core function of Cullect – making an easily shareable list of relevant items on a very specific theme. Culling the bad. Collecting the good.
Earlier this week, I talked with a consultancy about how Cullect’s theme-specific (practice area, industry, etc) reading lists could augment their internal knowledge sharing and client relationships. Curated knowledge from your trusted experts.
Last night, via Twitter, Mike Keliher points me to this:
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