why curation...

Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It

Arthur de Villemandy, co-founder of Capsule, during which I inquired about the tricks employed by his curators. He responded with remarkable clarity, stating, "Curation isn't about accumulating; it's about the art of non-choice. What truly matters is the overall coherence of the selections." This shift from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) to NOMO... See more

Shachaf Rodberg

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. — Wittgenstein

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Introducing Curation Markets: Trade Popularity of Memes & Information (with code)!

Simon de la Rouviere medium.com

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Pop up Grocer

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the people who curate the Internet who have a point of view will actually become the centers of attention, and you cannot replace that with AI. You cannot replace that curator function or that guiding function that we've always looked to other individuals to do.

-Nilay Patel on Ezra Klein

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You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on inside the mind of Werner Herzog when he recommends books and films is yet superior to YouTube’s recommendation engine. Going from Herzog to Kapuściński and from Kapuściński to Mandelstam and Mandelstam to... See more

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via Henrik Karlsson

Homesteading the Twittersphere

Alex Danco alexdanco.com

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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 more

Jorge Medina • You’re Not Lacking Creativity, You’re Overwhelmed

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