NB23 Week 8
I resisted signing up for scoop.it for quite a while, because I did not want to start up yet another account that I might never really use (somewhere in the digital soup I have unused accounts for Library Thing, Read It Later, and many other forgotten web tools). When I started reading Robin's Library Links quite some time ago, I did not see any need to start my own account, because I had no intention of "curating" a topic. As I began to find more and more scoop.it topics that interested me, I saw the value in starting an account so that new posts in all my followed topics would be sent daily to my inbox. While this is very convenient, I was a little wary of it as well. I could feel myself becoming more and more lazy, just reading the articles scooped by others, rather than seeking out news from a variety of sources myself.....
That being said, I am happy, overall, with my scoop.it experience and it has pointed me to some news and information sites that I would not otherwise have known about. I even started curating a couple of my own topics . I didn't think that this was something I would do, because I did not think that I would have the time or energy to properly curate a given topic in a way that would be meaningful and useful to others.
However, instead of curating for an audience of followers, my aims in "curating" these topics are to focus my own reading online and to keep track of the articles I have found interesting.....and if others find it interesting to read and follow what I read, so be it!
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