Curators of the Universe COTU: COTU is about the use of Indieweb for curation by subject experts anywhere to retain ownership of their content and to share that content in ways that save people time, money and helps them solve problems. COTU follows the prime directive of retainng ownership of your content, but…. following the POSSE maxim of: publish on your own site syndicate elsewhere
Curators of the Universe-COTU Principles:
One of the problems of profit based publishing is that people are paid by the word, and therefore use so many more words than is necessary to share knowledge, information or a simple product or servce recommendation.
So the number 1 COTU principle is that all curators will use the minimum number of words to desribe what they think is worthy of a reader’s time!
Curators of the Universe Master of the Digital Monopolies: Whether is is Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google or Youtube, COTU curators are encouraged to share information that helps people save their time through exposing the COTU readers to the very best the digital monopolies have to offer.
Hyperlinks and Video Sources Encouraged: The human brain processes video approximately 60,000 time faster than text, so to accelorate the sharing of knowledge and information assimilation COTU curators are encouraged to include hyperlinks, preferable to brief credible videos on the individual discussion topic.
Cross Referal-Reciprocity Encouraged: We are better together, from the onset it is suggested that all COTU curators make a common practice of cross referral and reciprocity for fellow curators! It is hoped that Indieweb will support this.
Indieweb Support: It is hoped that Indieweb itself will support the COTU curator concept with various forms of support, from promotional support, to the creation of a database of COTU curators, to financial compensation approaches.
Comment-Discussion-Improvement Encouraged: This document is proposed as a living first draft, that is hoped would improve with input-suggestions-revisions by the suggesed COTU community supported by Indieweb itself!
Indieweb: link to Indieweb:https://indieweb.org/