Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Trusted advisors don't pretend to know everything.
They know who to ask, what to read, where to look.
Curation is the infrastructure of advisory relationships.
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RG
This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. First, what are info atoms? A tweet is an atom. A photo on Flickr is an atom. A conversation item on Google Buzz is an atom. A Facebook status message is an atom. A YouTube video is an atom.
Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc.
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.
Relevant Curation Articles - 2008-2013
Can curation be algorithmic or should it be human?
Museums and the their role in developing culture - Boundary maintenance and the curation canon: can there be rules for what is of value and what is not?
Opportunity to update the museums and art gallery curation canons as well as those of who curates content and resources - of whatever kind - online
Influencing the world, by controlling the flow of information, is novel.
Influencing the world, by controlling the flow of information, is novel.