Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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There is an observation that has stayed with me. People no longer want the thing. They want the signalling mechanism around the thing. This applies to a Raf Simons archive piece, to natural-wine bars, to particular books, to particular cafe orders. The reference has become the thing, and the work that was supposed to come from engaging with the... See more
The End of Taste as Currency
Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
I plan to foster this chaos in me by staring into the eyes of my beloved, walking into a forest at dusk, or writing a poem whose wild... See more
I plan to foster this chaos in me by staring into the eyes of my beloved, walking into a forest at dusk, or writing a poem whose wild... See more
The Curator’s Advantage
So when we wonder where all the websites have gone, know it’s the curators we’re nostalgic for because the curators showed us the best the web had to offer once upon a time. And the curators— the tenders, aggregators, collectors, and connectors— can bring us back to something better. Because it’s still out there, we just have to find it.
Here’s the... See more
Here’s the... See more
Where have all the websites gone?
you have never had an original thought.
and you never will.
but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.
the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.
your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.
you are an instrument, not a source .
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and you never will.
but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.
the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.
your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.
you are an instrument, not a source .
play... See more
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Curation and Knowledge Management
"Agriculture made towns and cities possible, made it possible to meet and associate with far more people than was possible in hunter-gatherer tribes.
Eventually, poets could meet poets, artists could meet artists, and musicians, musicians. The potential of a group of competent musicians is so much greater than the sum of them all in ones and twos.
But large cities have been with us for thousands of years now, and somehow the advances brought on by civilisation seem to have run dry, and urban decay has begun to manifest.
Provided that people can still communicate and work together, the next step forward in human cultural terms might well be independent from physical proximity – it might be through association by choice.
Perhaps now is a good time for the better application of those information technologies that have been developed in recent decades, in supporting storage and reuse: not of food, as in neolithic times, nor even of money, where information technology applied to finance has enabled both wonderful and dreadful things.
It is now the turn of personal information to be the focus of the new technology – information technology – so that we can present ourselves and the values we have chosen to others, and let that information be used for the further positive transformation of society."
If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Content Discovery and Curation
Curiosity sherpas
curation is, if nothing else, interdisciplinary and relational, often mediating between past and contemporary ideas for an audience. If done skillfully, the curator performs multiple roles simultaneously, as storyteller, educator, critic, collaborator and entertainer.