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The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
Curators, Curators
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more
Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
Curation means making arguments through objects as well as words, images, and sounds. It implies a spatialization of the sort of critical and narrative tasks that, while not unfamiliar to historians, are fundamentally different when carried out in space—physical, virtual, or both—rather than in language alone. It means becoming engaged in collectin... See more
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
In Curators are the new Creators, Gaby argues that this will create opportunities for curators — increasingly, we will pay people with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information.
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The Browse... See more
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The Browse... See more
Sari Azout • The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
