Content Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
by Robin Good and · updated 12d ago
Content Curation
- one thing I saw growing up in South London in the 1980s as supermarkets deployed was that small food shops tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that supermarkets themselves couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was the de... See more
from Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans by ben-evans.com
Robin Good added 12d ago
Revisited: one thing I saw growing up with the Internet as Google grew, was that small lists and directories tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that Google itself couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was enough interest to support this. They didn't scale - they didn't turn into chains of 30 indie directories networks - but they often prospered.
- All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.
from Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans by ben-evans.com
Robin Good added 12d ago
- If search giants aren't interested in, well, search, I suppose it's time to look elsewhere for answers online. Share sources you trust, curate sources of information on what's important to you and dive back into specific URLs over general queries.
from Search is dead — long live curation
Robin Good added 17d ago
- “And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain o... See morefrom A quote from The Prophet
Robin Good added 2mo ago
- Writing on methods for gathering ideas, Seneca, the great stoic, suggests that authors should imitate the bees. Like a bee flying among the flowers, we ought to vary our reading and extract useful material from various sources.
from Welcome!
Robin Good added 2mo ago
- So when we wonder where all the websites have gone, know it’s the curators we’re nostalgic for because the curators showed us the best the web had to offer once upon a time. And the curators— the tenders, aggregators, collectors, and connectors— can bring us back to something better. Because it’s still out there, we just have to find it.
Here’s the ... See morefrom Where have all the websites gone?
Robin Good added 2mo ago
- Somewhere between the late 2000’s aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our ability to curate the web. Worse still, we’ve outsourced our discovery to corporate algorithms. Most of us did it in exchange for an endless content feed.
from Where have all the websites gone?
Robin Good added 2mo ago
- One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you think you know, you stop looking. You cease your wonder.
from Long Distance Thinking by Simon Sarris
Johann Van Tonder added 3mo ago
- Curate to create, there’s no other way
There’s no creation without inspiration.
Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the world through their chosen medium. Whether that ’s painting, writing, music or photography is irrelevant.
First and foremost, creators are curators .
They take it all in and reinterpret it in their own ... See morefrom You’re Not Lacking Creativity, You’re Overwhelmed by Jorge Medina
Johann Van Tonder added 3mo ago