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Curators, Curators
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more
sariazout.mirror.xyz • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
Popular news-filtering sites like Digg and Reddit rank stories based on the votes of millions of members, obviating the need for editors.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
Because of the Web and social media, everyone now has the power to type out his ideas and spread them to millions of people. Memory isn’t a big problem anymore.
Dan Zarrella • Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas
People have been freaking out about the virtuality of data for decades, and you'd think we'd have internalized the obvious truth: there is no shelf. In the digital world, there is no physical constraint that's forcing this kind of organization on us any longer. We can do without it, and you'd think we'd have learned that lesson by now.
Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
The changing world is leveling the playing field and turning us all into amateurs at an unbelievable pace. This is why the role of the curator is getting more and more important at this point in history.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Filter-then-publish rested on a scarcity of media that is a thing of the past. The only working system is publish-then-filter.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Blame human nature. As much as we intellectually appreciate openness, at the end of the day we favor the easiest path. We'll pay for convenience and reliability, which is why iTunes can sell songs for 99 cents despite the fact that they are out there, somewhere, in some form, for free. When you are young, you have more time than money, and LimeWire... See more
Michael Wolff • The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet
One of the wildest moments of this conversation for me was when I made a comment that I thought was just a universally believed truth about the post-platform internet: that people these days prefer individuals to brands. And then Nilay told me, “No, that’s wrong. It’s not people who are doing that; it’s the systems that deliver content to people” —... See more