Presentation about filtering, curation and the tools to find great content for Day of Discovery in San Diego, June 12

1. The Needle in the Haystack
Finding Goodness Online
Dean Shareski
June 22, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/t_buchtele/3422507814/

2. Back to 2006

9. Overload

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/4007683970/

11. “If you have the same
problem for a long time,
maybe it’s not a problem –
maybe it’s a fact.” Yitzhak Rabin

12. More books than you cou
ld read in a lifetime
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozyman/443545349/

13. Gatekeepers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leomei/183371104/

14. 20th Cen
tury Filte
rs

15. The Death of Publishing
“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of
professionals who are taking on the
incredible difficulty and complexity and
expense of making something public.
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a
button. There’s a button that says “publish,”
and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky

16. We now are
publishers and
curators

18. the problem with search

20. About 445,000,000 results (0.24 seconds)

21. About 445,000,000 results (0.24 seconds)

22. I don’t like to prescribe, only describe

24. Social Curation

26. Tools

27. RSS

28. RSS

29. Google Reader

32. Text

33. Twitter Search

34. Twitter Search

35. Delicious
Diigo

40. Tagging

43. Part of the
solution is more
data

47. WorkFlows

48. Evernote

51. The Problem is...

52. When we can always get what we want

53. We rarely find hidden treasures

54. Or explore diverse or opposing points of view

56. Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
http://shareski.ca/y/1fe

57. Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
http://shareski.ca/y/1fe

60. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/4007683970/

61. Dean Shareski
shareski.ca
@shareski
dean_shareski@discovery.com