Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
In an era of information abundance, the ability to filter effectively has become a premium skill. Good taste is cultural literacy: knowing the right references, understanding history, and recognising what matters beneath the surface noise.
Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
Algorithms reward instant gratification, though your audience may prefer more depth and insights.
To stay visible, focus on synthesizing without losing depth.
To stay visible, focus on synthesizing without losing depth.
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Curiosity creates the inquiry.
Knowledge populates the options.
Curation filters the right ones through.
Judgment makes the final call.
When knowledge becomes abundant, value migrates to the functions that exist upstream and downstream from it: framing the inquiry and acting on the output.
In this new architecture, curiosity, curation, and judgment... See more
Knowledge populates the options.
Curation filters the right ones through.
Judgment makes the final call.
When knowledge becomes abundant, value migrates to the functions that exist upstream and downstream from it: framing the inquiry and acting on the output.
In this new architecture, curiosity, curation, and judgment... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
The curator relationship operates at a fundamentally different psychological level than advertising. An algorithm might know you like blue Oxford shirts, but a tastemaker knows why a particular blue Oxford matters in a lineage of blue Oxfords. This contextual knowing, placing objects in historical and cultural frameworks rather than recommendation... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
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... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Lessons for Managing Today's Overwhelm:
History shows that successful adaptation requires taking active control of information filters rather than passively accepting them. Just as Renaissance scholars developed personal commonplace books to organize knowledge, and early internet users created bookmarking systems before Google dominated search, we... See more
History shows that successful adaptation requires taking active control of information filters rather than passively accepting them. Just as Renaissance scholars developed personal commonplace books to organize knowledge, and early internet users created bookmarking systems before Google dominated search, we... See more
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
You can’t curate by accident.
You can only curate something for which you have a deep interest for.
In other words: If you don’t love it, you can’t curate it.
Yes: Curators love what they curate.
If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
"Expert curation occurs when an actual human being who is, theoretically, an expert in a given topic, weighs the quality of the information presented in making her source selections.
Expert curation can also include an editorial element, in which the expert not only judges content for quality but also provides a point of view."
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