curation
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
what are the parallels between librarians and curators/ curation
Curation is the art of selection . It’s the filtering through the vast expanse of information we are exposed to, choosing what deserves our attention.
Jorge Medina • You’re Not Lacking Creativity, You’re Overwhelmed
terrain.com • Design Literacy
It’s important to always be curating
Not all blogs stay the same, and there are always interesting new blogs that come up. I make an effort to, every three months, review my news consumption and delete blogs I’m not really ever clicking on. I’ll also scan some of the blogs I follow to see if any affiliated blogs are of interest to me.
hackernoon.com • How I Live: My Finite News System
This recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations, which in the course of the past decade have taken over our digital platforms. Today’s automated social-media feeds deliver increasingly indistinguishable content now sometimes generated by artificial intelligence;
... See moreKyle Chayka • The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture | the New Yorker
conscious consumption
An emergent property.
Taste comes from hunger.