The Catalogers
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In short, with democratized access, the web became more saturated than ever before, and as consumers, we began to spend more and more time trying to sort through it all. In a state of analysis paralysis, how do we disaggregate signal from noise?
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increas... See more
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increas... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
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When we look back over the past 100 years, traditional commerce (and the culture it indirectly endorsed) was primarily curated by a single person’s point-of-view. Even when commerce moved online, to places like Amazon or Farfetch, retailers still controlled the types of things consumers purchased. Online commerce didn’t innovate a new shopping expe... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
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Can we fix the creator economy? I think so, and I think the answer may be provided by Timothy Green's salient insight that publication is curation.
Tom Beck • Curator Economy, Not Creator Economy
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I see metalabels, or small and extremely value-aligned media DAOs, as a possible solution to the crisis in tastemaking.A lot of web3 media thinkers talk about the curation layer of media. How curation is the new creation. How decentralized media is more about curating the good stuff than actually creating the good stuff. That layer is exactly what ... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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The Curator Economy is where curators can make a living out of experimenting and sharing the best products out there for everyone. They act as a bridge between the Creators and the Consumers, bringing the best of the best products into the light.
Tuan (Alan) Nguyen • How The Curator Economy Shapes Today’s Products
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Technology for producing and distributing information is useless without some way to locate, filter, organize and summarize it. A new profession of “information managers” will have to combine the skills of computer scientists, librarians, publishers and database experts to help us discover and manage information. These human agents will work with s
... See moreGordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
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