About the Posts of the Week

Every week or so, I’ll publish a list of annotated links to articles on education technology, design, and so on that I’ve found to be interesting. In some ways, this is also an annotated bookmark list–I never really got into del.icio.us for saving (and returning to) bookmarks. This I find to be more useful to me, because I’ve read the articles and put down a sentence or two of why I think the article’s relevant. (I could just as easily share each of these individually, via Twitter, Facebook and/or Google+ but that would take more work!)

Reprinted from Posts of the Week for May 3, 2011.

Where did these come from?

A couple weeks ago I was reading a post on TechCrunch (I think) where one of the commenters mentioned a new digesting service that he had started. His company collects posts from around the web and every Friday releases a curated digest of what the editors thought was interesting in the last week.

NextDigest is the company behind all of this. Here’s how they describe themselves:

98% of technology leaders waste time reading technology news every day.

NextDigest members receive a curated email of what you need to read in your industry every Friday.

Source: NextDigest. (2011). NextDigest. Retrieved April 30, 2011 from NextDigest website: http://nextdigest.com/.

Since I’ve been subscribed to the digests (they also do announcements on local startup events in Boston, SF, etc.) I’ve found at least one post per week to be interesting enough to read through. It helps that I had already found and read some of the posts the editors have included, so I know that my interests align with those of each digest’s editor.

(I receive the StartupDigest Green and Cloud, but I don’t find their curated articles to be particularly interesting.)