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Content curation is so much more than compiling lists and dropping articles, blog posts, and images into pretty templates. Platforms like Paper.li may work for amateurs, but content curation is big time business.

Content curators — or editors — find, sort, categorize, and distill the big data and vast amount of content that’s accessible to us.

Curators are editors — typically people with hard-core newsroom experience — who are liked and trusted by readers. Curators use their brains; they tap into emotions.

While computers are best at handling large amounts of messy data, Waldispuhl said humans are able to sort through the coloured blocks representing DNA more quickly.

Their teachers are highly respected and credentialed, and they are given time to plan and work together in teams. Their educational environment emphasizes quality, collaboration and Advertisement yld_mgr.place_ad_here("adPosBox"); sr_adspace_id = 1000007698507; sr_adspace_width = 300; sr_adspace_height = 250; sr_ad_new_window = true; sr_adspace_type = "graphic"; admeld_publisher = 885; admeld_site = 'bang'; admeld_size = '300x250'; admeld_placement = 'bang_btf'; if(sr_adspace_width==300 && typeof(adify_bk_fired)=="undefined") { document.write(''); adify_bk_fired=1; } wellness."

It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.

the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.

Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows

scanning technology used in Gmail was also present in the Apps for Education version of Gmail, though there was never a claim that Google actually mined or even stored any data without permission for purposes other than checking for viruses or spam or conducting other common e-mail services, such as spell checking.

Google Apps is a separate offering that provides additional security, administrative and archiving controls for education, business and government customers.