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Part 1 of FIVE EASY PIECES: On Curation, Content as Experience and Federated Systems #ThinkState - goonth's posterous
By Gunther Sonnenfeld, with key contributions from Brendan Howley, Ishan Shapiro and Gavin Keech The following is the first of five posts on the evolution of the “Human Web”. “An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ?
September 30, 2009 | 30 Comments Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online. Blog posts are written and published.Date / / Category / Uncategorized In the last decade, the online world has been ruled by two, twin forces: The Crowd and The Algorithm. The collective “users” of the Internet (The Crowd) create, click, and rate, while mathematical equations add scalability and findability to these overwhelming quantities of data (The Algorithm). Like the moon over the ocean, the pull of these two forces help create the tides of popularity (and obscurity) on the Internet.
The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough
Over the past two months, I've bookmarked less than a half dozen articles as worth noting for the insights they provide. Looking back over them this past week, I've noticed two dominant themes that are core to the nature of collaboration and the social web.

