Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The politics of pools (Earth Island Journal)
* Not so nice mining ice (The Walrus)
* Ultrarunning scamp or champ? (5280 Magazine)
* Tom fauxlery (The Verge)
* Smells like snail spirit (Texas Monthly)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

https://longreads.com/2025/08/08/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-574/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: It’s not denial. I’m just very selective about the reality I accept.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-09-28)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4110/

The "conference curator" is a myth. Instead, allow participants to do amazing and generous work by using appropriate participation tools.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/04/the-myth-of-the-conference-curator-part-2

Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

• Symbiosis steeped in irony (Washington Post)
• The hidden lives of rocks (Atmos)
• Journalism’s facts machine (The Yale Review)
• What’s up, sun? (Noēma)
• Puzzling through problems (The American Scholar)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

https://longreads.com/2025/07/25/longreads-top-5-572/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* A first-person flood account (Texas Monthly)
* Californians icing ICE @RollingStone
* Sexually diverse vegetables (Noēma)
* Pokémon: Go! (Virginia Quarterly Review)
* Polo clonies (Wired)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

https://longreads.com/2025/07/18/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-571?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Industry leaders clash over curation benefits https://ppc.land/industry-leaders-clash-over-curation-benefits/ #Curation #DigitalMarketing #PremiumContent #Transparency #MarketingDebate

RIP, Conference Curator! The fantasy of the conference curator is dead. Instead, let conference attendees choose conference content.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/11/rip-conference-curator

"Taste is how you teach the world to treat your attention."

From the latest Dense Discovery thanks for thoughtfully subtracting from my feed and adding so much more @densediscovery #taste #curation #SocialMedia #attention

At the #FediForum, I would like to talk about a new #Fediverse #Directory of #CuratedLinks which I am building.

Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

https://longreads.com/2025/06/06/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-566?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

RIP, Conference Curator! The fantasy of the conference curator is dead. Instead, let conference attendees choose conference content.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/11/rip-conference-curator

Weekly Link Out Loud (LOL) – W21 • 2025

Starting a new series of posts titled – Weekly Link Out Loud – LOLs – links to posts I read and took notes on from May 25 – May 31 2025

• AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships: This is a great example of how the quest to understand ourselves with things like this is paved with nonsense. And it’s so easy and appealing to go down a wrong path Something to be mindful and skeptical about.
• Don’t Chop Up Your Apple Trees to Make Barrels for Your Apples: On TBC CEO’s notes that web pages won’t be the primary interface for a browser…
• How To Know What To Do: A guide on how to plan your life
• OpenAI has an unsubtle communications strategy.: The load-bearing relationships between futurity-vibes and finance
• Screen Names, BBM, and MP3s The Oral History of Millennial Tech: By the turn of the century, millennials found themselves as test dummies on the cutting edge of technology. Chat rooms! Music in your pocket! Tamagotchis! It all sounds pretty quaint now …
• The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch • Ness Labs: The anxiety-curiosity switch is the process of redirecting the mental energy that causes creative paralysis into curiosity-driven exploration. It’s particularly useful as anxiety and curiosity are reframes of very similar brain patterns. Doing this can often be the difference between creation and a slam of the metaphorical book.
• The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated: When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
• Who You Are is Not What You Do: Rather than drastic, very difficult changes, get hobbies a little at a time, make friends a little at a time. Ultimately, it’s similar to diversifying a financial portfolio. You have to diversify your life. Diversify yourself
• Why I’m meditating 300 hours: This is an interesting follow. They’ve already achieved close to 100-150 hours and that’s might impressive. While I’ve mulled about meditation, I am continuing journaling.

#2025 #aggregation #blogs #curation #links #lol #posts #weekly #weeklyLol

@neurovagrant
#Curation
@Rejected_cryptid

My favorite tumblr curator is cemeterys. Really nice mix of antiquities, modern hi/"low" art, vintage photography, etc.

https://www.tumblr.com/cemeterys

Our blog posts now let you play all embedded tracks as a playlist! Which means that if you were into curation, say, you could share Mirlo playlists...

https://mirlo.space/signup

i just posted a collection of games that made me think about the urge to instill purpose in digital art or games
"Not Quite A Game (Games that go beyond the need to be understood)"
https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/not-quite-a-game-games-that-go-beyond-the-need-to-be-understood
"I think maybe language is deeper than words. When you take words away there’s this sense of awe you can find when having to learn how to understand something. You need to meet it on its own terms.
That’s what’s special about digital art."
#IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDev #Writing #Curation

"I always felt like social media creates an illusion of convenience. Think of how much time it takes to stay on top of things. To stay on top of music or film. Think of how much time it takes these days, how much hunting you have to do. Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile. And now, instead of relying on professional curators to sort through things for us, now we have to do the sorting."

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things

Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)

Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.

https://longreads.com/2025/04/18/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-559/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Just pushed the 3000th issue of the daily geospatial links digest

https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2025/04-11.html

We've translated 8463 links since 2015-06-04 by @Raf, but he actually started circa 2011.

Sharing here a few basic metrics from the CSV we generate along the digest for anyone to leverage.

RIP, Conference Curator! The fantasy of the conference curator is dead. Instead, let conference attendees choose conference content.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/11/rip-conference-curator