🛟✨The Nexialist #0177
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🛟✨The Nexialist #0177
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers.
Ana Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
After the Creator Economy
collect.metalabel.xyzToday, buying products online has never been easier. Convenience is at an all-time high, and consumers have more options than ever before. It seems, once again, that there is nowhere else we need to go. And yet, this is precisely the problem.
In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us abo... See more
In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us abo... See more
Jesse Lee • Curators All the Way Down
REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
Matthew Ballredef.com
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted collection... See more