links for 2009-11-16

If you’re trying to understand technical concepts such as cloud computing, a resource like Wikipedia is helpful in explaining what it is.

Yet even Wikipedia’s explanation is difficult for some people to easily grasp. That’s where Lee Lefever enters the picture with the latest in his CommonCraft tech video series – Cloud Computing in Plain English.

Facebook and Twitter lists are one level of curation. However, there are others. Posterous and Tumblr are fantastic platforms for soliciting contributions from groups of people around a shared interest. And they're platforms that will enable all of us to curate together.