Content Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
by Robin Good and · updated 17d ago
Content Curation
- What we need is more support for the act of curation itself: Not just paying online creators for their content, but paying curators, sustaining the people who find what you like.
from ⬜ the Importance of Curation by One Thing
Robin Good added 5mo ago
- In fact, I’d argue an emerging class of creators and consumer brands is actually employing curation as a business strategy. Gohar World, Ganni and Soeur have been sharing city travel guides, Ghia has been sharing Spotify playlists, and tastemakers like Olympia Gayot and Alex Eagle are joining entirely new social platforms purpose-built for discover... See more
from no. 13 — Reclaiming discovery from the algorithms by Michelle Rose Joseph
kleros added 3mo ago
- Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com
Alara added 9mo ago
- “When we emphasize the artificially quantized, we lose access to the glorious in-between where we all actually live. [...] We lose access to the squishy, indeterminate, and speculative. [...] We are flying with instruments alone.” - Douglas Rushkoff
from Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
Robin Good added 5mo ago
- 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 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
- 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 17d 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.
- 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
- Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.
from Tweet by Nikita Bier
Robin Good added 5mo ago