Approche Media de la curation
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Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
Hi Tom - you're into curation, so you are included in our conversation about it. My interest as an Educator is in the curation of resources as an alternative to traditional content creation for units of study.There is however, something more profound happening - with the combination of a relational Web and discretionary curation, we get surprising emergence. For instance, from one NASA astronaut we can instantly relate to 61 atstronauts who have been in space; but a curatorial positioning of this group into those who saw UFOs and those that didn't adds a lot of spice to the information. by Mar 5
That's a controversial post headline and I don't mean that social will always beat search, but there's a rising chorus out there about "content farms" and search optimized content creation that is worth touching on. Arrington started it when he posted about " the end of hand crafted content ". Richard MacManus penned a similar post the same day called " Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs, and Google should be worried ". And over the weekend, Paul Kedrosky addressed the issue of search spam in his quest to find the perfect dishwasher . When a web service like Google controls a huge amount of web traffic (>50% for many sites), it's going to get spammed up.
Why Social Beats Search
