About

Hola,

my name is tomás custer and since i am busy curating the news (here and elsewhere) i haven’t had time to write an about page so for right now this will have to do

• i am just one guy trying to help
• this site/service is constantly evolving (especially as i try to understand the movement myself)
• 100% handpicked by me because humans are still the best technology
• i want to show the power of truly human-powered curation to help
• i don’t agree with everything i post – i see my job as giving you the tool to make up your own mind
• http://www.hispanictips.com/tomas/ – scroll down for a autobiography(ito)
• This is a TrustCuration Site from Niche New Media (both mine)
• I practice a very respectful form of curation – citing sources, prominent link back to sources, steering clear of copyright infringement issues with images, text etc
• i just want to get all of the news into one place that i can and then make it easy for you to go to the source
• i handpick everything, categorize, tag etc – the only automation is the twitter feed on the homepage
• more later when I have time
• questions/comments occupyitnews@gmail.com

Ciao,

a couple of things quickly

• I feel so honored. My OccupyItNews.org‘s feed has been added to Dave Winer’s OccupyWeb.org news river – in case you don’t know who he is this is his twitter bio: Visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS.
• put together in a day with a lot of borrowing from hispanictips and still some work to do but this is a step up from hispanictips in terms of my curation system / the backend – almost seems that i was in training for it
• over 6 years experience covering/curating another disenfranchised group: Hispanics & Latinos.
• I am a pro at following what are considered ‘fringe’ communities, movements and media (not that 99% is fringe)