Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
Replace every single instance of “synthesised strategists” with “curators” and everything will make much more sense.
Curation provides value even to the most mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, with a perspective or purpose that makes them stand out in the chaotic, unorganized tsunami of superficial published content.
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... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
Arguably, algorithms already curate the information that we encounter online. They are, as Kevin Slavin puts it, “like an invisible architecture that underpins almost everything that’s happening” (Slavin, 2011). In doing so, they reshape how our culture works and how we understand the world. Unlike Brand, whose view of the curating done by the... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Can curation be algorithmic or should it be human?
Subsequent research by Gerstgrasser and colleagues at Stanford and MIT (arXiv:2404.01413) provides important qualification: model collapse is not inevitable if synthetic data accumulates alongside real data rather than replacing it. The pathological scenario assumes complete substitution—thoughtful data curation can prevent the worst outcomes.
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
"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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So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Curiosity sherpas
It’s how you build with the same pieces that everyone else has; this is what makes you unique.