Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Directory of 500+ sources to find all types of content from news, to images, stock music, video footage, icons, sounds, trends, data (ready for re-use). It also includes: 1) search engines 2) Tools to monitor webpages and manage RSS feeds. Manually vetted. Updated Jan 2024.
Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].
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Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.
But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with unwaverin"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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... See more"School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends.
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But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together.
Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others woThomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."
"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling SocietyLearning and
A Map of the Online World in Incredible Detail
Humans learn through analogy, not logic.
We need narratives that we identify with, we need examples we can relate to.
Source: Chris Wong