Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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History shows that successful adaptation requires taking active control of information filters rather than passively accepting them. Just as Renaissance scholars developed personal commonplace books to organize knowledge, and early internet users created bookmarking systems before Google dominated search, we need personalized AI curation systems... See more
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
1. Human-curated Content - Viewers are embracing human-curated content recommendations to mitigate the shortcomings of algorithm-based suggestions.
2. AI-human Collaboration - The blending of human insight with algorithmic efficiency is emerging as a trend in enhancing user content experiences.
3. Personalized Content Discovery - Offering unique and... See more
2. AI-human Collaboration - The blending of human insight with algorithmic efficiency is emerging as a trend in enhancing user content experiences.
3. Personalized Content Discovery - Offering unique and... See more
Human-Curated Content Recommendations
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.
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
That’s why taste is a responsibility. It’s not just about what you like. It’s about what you allow in.
Taste is how you protect your mental environment.
Taste is how you protect your mental environment.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
" The gap: Most thought leadership frameworks focus on positioning (how to be seen) rather than generativity (how to produce genuinely new ideas).
The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.
This means: treating... See more
The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.
This means: treating... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
AI drives the cost of words to zero. The market floods. Consequently, the premium on Authenticity—on blood and bone—skyrockets. The web fills with synthetic noise. Curation becomes the only moat.
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
AI slop
AI augmentation is a future requirement, but remain mindful of what’s outsourced. Going forward, we need more demanding journeys than we do mindless shortcuts. Shortcuts rarely yield fun, stories or lessons. If it's easy, it likely isn’t worthwhile.
Matt Klein • The META Trending Trends: 2024
Marsh lays out several prerequisites for the person curating a digital exhibition. First and foremost, they need a “willingness to engage with [their] content on a level deep enough to perceive its meaning and significance." Understanding the audience, including “what they would find interesting, valuable, or compelling," is also critical. Further,... See more
Deep Synergy
Curating requires:
1. knowing deeply what’s being curated
2. understanding who you are curating for
3. intentionality and creativity