Showing posts with label Curation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curation. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Week 2 Curation: India Epics


It is hard to pick just three because I got a lot favorite things online.

The first one is a video named Dumb Ways to Die. I found it on the Youtube and bookmarked it. This is a really interesting video that reminds people to pay attention on their personal safety. And it really helps to reduce the death rate in the metro system of New York.


The next one is a landscape shoot I found on the 500px. I go to that site very frequently and I saw a lot of breathtaking shoots over there. I bookmarked it but I cannot save the picture due to copyright.

The last one I picked is a cosplay from the Twitter. This is a very nice one, so I want to share it. I liked it on Twitter.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Week 1 Curation

I have been using Chrome browser for over 5 years though Google does not exist in mainland of China; I used VPN to access Google and I felt no difference after the Great Firewall launched. As an old user, I have mastered how to use Chrome’s bookmark systems. I always bookmarked the sites that interested me. Folders are very important for classified management; I generally created a lot of subfolders to make my bookmarks neat. One important folder is the folder named expired; I did not deleted my collections because I wanted to know what I have done in the past years, so I moved all bookmarks that were no longer interest for me to the expired folder as memories.


My bookmark; Self-made pic

In this modern world, sharing is becoming more and more in the digital form because it is convenient, cheap, efficient, fast, and environmental friendly. One simple click on social media website can share thousands people the information they may interested in. This process takes only one second. And no trees need to be cut down and made into paper. I think traditional sharing ways, such as newspaper and magazines, are facing a war that they could not win.

One recommendation is Google Scholar search engine. This one is more focusing on academic resources, which is very useful for essay writing. Furthermore, citations are already done in the search engine; no more tricky citation rules need to be worried about.