Tech Buzz: Road to Curation Nation a Bumpy One. Both Reader's Digest and Time magazine started out as content aggregators rewriting articles from other publications. Back then, "there was not a lot of brooding about other people's intellectual property rights," notes author Steven Rosenbaum.
So, what has changed between then and now? If Reader's Digest didn't already exist, could it start in today's environment? Webinar: The New PCI 3.0 Standard Learn the steps to take to get your company ready for PCI DSS 3.0 changes coming January 2015. We cover all of the details you need to know as we head to the deadline to complete and pass your PCI DSS 3.0 audit. View the PCI Webinar Series Now. Last week, media giants including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and Dow Jones sent a cease-and-desist letter targeting the iPad app Zite, which aggregates news based on a user's Twitter and Google Reader activity.
"Readers are looking for better ways of consuming content, and they aren't getting it from traditional publishers. Speed Kills. Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ Good Curation VS Bad Curation. What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled “Link Building by Imitation” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. The original image used words like “theft” and “steal” and prompted a debate amongst curators like Robin Good who selected the resource and curated it. Robin’s point in curating this resource: Here’s a great visualization of how different can be the traits of content re-use. In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other “thin” publishers as Google would call them.
I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content. I think debating the word theft takes us away from this point. Are the days of curation numbered? It’s clear that the interest of internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view. I’m thinking of Quora as one example. But also Digg, MySpace and many others… And whenever there is a burst of hype around a topic it seems to be a precursor to a shortened life span.
Curation has recently emerged as a hot topic so does that mean it’s days are numbered? Take a look at this Google Trends graph: You can see that interest in the topic was fairly level for much of last year but is now on a sharp upward trajectory since the beginning of this year. But is curation a flash in the pan? I don’t think so. We’re experiencing a media tsunami that search alone cannot handle. Curation will do for search what search did for the web — made it usable and useful to millions of people. We now have the tools and services that make digital curation easy and accessible by any internet user. The dangers of aggregation and curation | Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero. Thinking about democratised curation. I was invited to participate in a panel at the Google Zeitgeist event in the UK last month; it was a real privilege, it gave me the chance to listen to many good speakers, watch some fascinating demos and meet a whole bunch of people who challenged my thinking.
Thank you Google, particularly Nikesh Arora, as well as the team led by Dan Cobley. As with any conference where good things are said, I walked away with a litany of soundbites, some of which I tweeted live. But there was one that I did not tweet, one that I’ve had reason to continue to ponder, one that forms the kernel of this post. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, had this to say (to be found at 19:48 in this video): “…. the statistic that we have been using is between the dawn of civilisation and 2003, five exabytes of information were created.
It’s important to understand scale. What it made me do was think. And continue it will. Digital curation seems to be a richer form of curation than its analog equivalent. SCARP Synthesis Report. Content curation sucks. There’s been a load of chatter in the Social Media echo chamber about the increasing role of content curation rather than content creation. Content vs. Aggregation vs. Curation Abnormal Returns. The discussion surrounding the merits of so-called web aggregators went to another level this week as some Internet heavies weighed in on the debate We first discussed the nature of content curation in piece entitled: Creating order out of aggregation. This provides some useful background on this debate. The pressures on the mainstream media are acute.
When a site like the Huffington Post, according to Mediaite, passes the likes of the WSJ and Washington Post in the number of readers it is inevitable there will be some sort of backlash. The pressure to perform is not limited to these mainstream media. Paul Tate at Gawker (via The Wire) reports on the acute pressure journalists at the financial newswires are to generate “breaking news.” Since the debate over content vs. aggregation usually resides in the mainstream media the breakdown of players is typically pretty simplistic: Content creators=good;Aggregrators=bad;Curators=somewhere in between. So, is curation a business or a hobby?
Curators steal, get over it. There’s a bigger problem. at Alex Kessinger. Curators have a problem; we steal content. I know we don’t like to put it that way. It’s always nicer to think that we point people in the right place, or we frame content in a new light, but at the end of the day we don’t create anything that could be considered a primary source.While it’s not evil, or harmful it leads us to the biggest problem with curation, and content in general in the coming future: who’s going to create the content. Who is going to create the content that I am going to curate. I never thought about asking that question until recently. Curation has always been a passing interest of mine even if I didn’t always know what to call it. Curation as a subject has grown in importance to me though. I try to read anything worthwhile that I can get my hands on to get my head in the game. Curation Nation is a book about how curation has come out of nowhere to touch a million different fields.
Anyway, this book is kind of the beginning of a long curation ark. Mediations: What exactly is 'Curation' anyway? Curation Nation: How to win in a world where consumers are creators, by Steven Rosenbaum (2011) Curation has been a buzz word for a while now, a useful weapon in job description territory wars but underexplored by PR academics and lacking robust description. In his new book, Curation Nation, Steve Rosenbaum discusses curation in many different ways, but never quite pins his colours to the mast with a tight and serviceable definition. Here is one of his efforts: "Curation is about adding value from humans who add their qualitative judgment to whatever is being gathered and organised. " The key word appears to be 'human' - as opposed content selected and by automated, algorithmic computer aggregation. For Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of magnify.net, "Curated experiences are by their very nature better than one-off decisions about that to buy or whom to trust.
" The basic premise is that there is far too much stuff out there for anyone to deal with without help, and things will only get harder.