Three tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
The curation and imposition of a narrative line upon the disparate chaos of images
Three tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
We mistake our immediate perceptions for the world-as-it-is – but really, our conscious awareness is a moment-by-moment model, a constant process of re-appraisal and re-integration with the world as it presents itself to us. In this way, our internal model of the world, our consciousness, shapes the world in the same way and just as powerfully as
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
- Stories are discrete. One essay, one event, one customer experience. Someone might say, “Did you hear the story about Company X doing thing Y?”
- Narratives are made up of all of the stories about a company, which crystallize into what people believe and say about the company as a whole. The narrative around a company is similar to its reputation
Packy McCormick • Story Time
Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness. There is never just one—they compete with one another and constantly change.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The curator’s job is to aggregate high-signal content on a given subject so that you don’t have to. A Curator is not necessarily Creator in the sense that you (as the reader/consumer) are not “trading” your attention/money in exchange for that creator’s individual perspectives, opinions, frameworks, or insights. What you’re trading is your
... See morePublications, whether massive or tiny, are platforms now. Audiences will choose a small number and become very loyal to them. Thus news publications will perform more and more aggregation as a service.
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
“People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.” Exactly! No one wants internet sludge. They want clarity and bullet points, which is why you can charge for aggregation.
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
building smaller communities of consumption devoted to more specific subjects can lead to a much deeper sense of engagement, both with the content and among the users.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“It’s a question of making something available to someone who otherwise wouldn’t have known about it,” Cavalconte said.