Comments on: Use Scoop.it! To Collect & Share Online Content You Like On A Custom-Themed Site

By: Zak

Zak — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:13:01 +0000

So… Mr/Ms Wolf, do you offer up the same diatribe over at Huffington Post every time they “curate” a story? How about Fox, CNN, the Drudge Report? How about any of the thousands of solo journalist bloggers? All of which are making money on their sites as curators from banners, adsense, etc. If you’re going to put content out into the public then throw a tantrum when it gets “curated,” then maybe you need to put it in a membership site as premium content. If anyone is being ignorant, its you.

By: D. A. Wolf

D. A. Wolf — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:39:07 +0000

“Especially if the writer is writing to make an income…”

Are you kidding me?

It seems to me this is yet one more way for so-called marketers to make a buck off the work of others who are not necessarily making any $$ from their writing – though it is we – who create original content, purchase images, spend hundreds of hours on research and writing – make nothing.

Your statement is ignorant at best.

To me ‘content curation” is little more than grabbing up and diluting quality content produced by others – whether or not they are generating income from it.

By: Alex Olariu

Alex Olariu — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:46:06 +0000

By: Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:39:06 +0000

“yes the system extracts only a small part of the content: this is required to respect the author right: the extract tells your readers what the post is about and invites your readers to go to the original content if they want to read the full article.”

Thanks for pointing this out, Marc. It’s really important that articles get linked back to the original poster, especially if the writer is writing to make an income.

And thanks for giving your feedback to the poster’s concerns. It’s always good to hear from the developers or the people associated with the sites or apps we write about. Feel free to correct anything that I might not have gotten right.

By: Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:35:03 +0000

Peter, thanks for the link and suggestion. Both sites do look similar. So Socialmedia is your site, but you used a WordPress theme to collect the content?

By: Marc Rougier

Marc Rougier — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:23:31 +0000

Hello Tom

I’m from the Scoop.it team. I’m not sure to understand your sentence “didn’t put any links in y posts”? If you encountered a bug, we want to fix it! (the bookmarklet is used by millions of users without any problem, I hope we can fix it rapidly for you!).

Otherwise: you can import posts from RSS of course. As well as from Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google, Digg and other sources, which you can tune to your needs: this is in Curate > Manage > Manage Source.

Also, yes the system extracts only a small part of the content: this is required to respect the author right: the extract tells your readers what the post is about and invites your readers to go to the original content if they want to read the full article. And you are free, as a curator, to add text to the selected post (curation is about selecting and sharing, but also about editing, adding a personal touch, perspective or context).

The purpose is to make it easy for your to find content, select it, edit it and share it – and help you edit a great looking magazine. I thank you for your feed back : we need to keep improving and your feed back is important to us!

@Bakari: thanks much for your comprehensive post on Scoop.it. Glad the tool is useful to you :-)

By: PeterLakeman

PeterLakeman — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:51:36 +0000

Scoop-it is really great. I also discovered it a few maonth ago. The paid version is even better. I really needed the paid stuff, but…….. to expensive.
So I looked around and found a wordpress solution that I use now. It looks almost the same as scoop it but now I own my items and I now have menu’s on top of my page. Also side widgets with separate info, analytics, advertisements etc.
Please have a look at my site at: http://www.socialmedia.peterlakeman.nl
On the bottom of my site is a also link where to download the theme for WordPress.
I really love my scoop-it alternative!!

By: Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:06:37 +0000

The bookmarklet didn’t provide a links back to your posts? Or you referring to something else? Thanks for your other feedback. Those features might something the developers could consider.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:54:43 +0000

I just tried it, didn’t really like it, the bookmarklet didn’t put any links in my posts and only shows a small amount of the content. There is no option to import posts from rss or to automatic import posts from website. Transparent pngs are not supported in profile images ect…