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Curation is the New Search is the New Curation. In the beginning there was curation, and it was good. People found interesting things on the web, created directories of those things, and then you found what you were looking for inside those curated lists. That was the origins of the original lists and directories, from Yahoo on outward. But then that got too hard. The web got bigger faster than anyone could keep track. Curation steadily gave way to algorithmic search, which at first was just spidering of the web, and then more intelligent spidering with keywords. That model has now begun to give way too. What has happened is that Google’s ranking algorithm, like any trading algorithm, has lost its alpha. There are two things that can happen now. Yes, that sounds mad. The answer, of course, is that we won’t — do them all by hand, that is. In short, curation is the new search. [Update] A friend points out in IM that all of this makes Yahoo mothballing Delicious, a directory of curated lists, more than a little mistimed.

Related posts: De la curation... à la curation - faberNovel's posterous. Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011 Here is a guest article by Partice Lamothe - CEO of Pearltrees (Pearltrees is a consulting client of SVW.) This is a lightly edited version of "La troisième frontière du Web" that appeared in the magazine OWNI - Digital Journalism - March 2010. The article argues that the founding pricinciples of the Internet are only now being implemented and that the next frontier is in organizing, or curating, the Internet.

By Patrice Lamothe Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose. Scoop.it, nouvel acteur de la curation entre blog et Twitter (invitation beta) Le curator est-il un veilleur. Petit rapport d’étonnement pour commencer l’année en douceur… "Curator" et "curation" sont les deux termes qui montent sur le web ces derniers mois.

Schématiquement l’idée est la suivante : la sélection de l’information sur les réseaux numériques est de moins en moins algorithmique, et de plus en plus humaine. Comme la veille ?... Ce qui est magique sur le web (entre autre) c’est sa propension à exploiter de nouvelles terminologies, à appeler un chat un « lol cat », ou encore un modérateur un « community manager » (et la liste est longue). Cette nouvelle année ne déroge pas à la règle, et voit l’apparition (ou plutôt l’application) d’un nouveau terme : le curator. Selon Wikipedia (version anglaise, puisque ce terme est anglo-saxon) un curator est un spécialiste de la gestion de contenus, responsable de la gestion de collections (au sens de collections bibliographiques ou encore artistiques). Un veilleur curationne au quotidien Alors quelles différences ?

Le curator, ce signal fort. The State of the Blogosphere 2010. InShare410 The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? Personally, I believe the answer lies in the nature of circumstances. If drinking from the glass, it is then half empty.

If pouring, it is half full. With the rise of Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr and other forms of micromedia, many believed that the glass was half empty. Blogging appeared passé as many individuals opted for microblogging, investing in the art of the short form. After all, the blogosphere at one point seemed to succumb to the allure of the statusphere and the effortlessness and trendiness of rapid-fire, micro publishing. Today, 100 million Tweets flew across Twitter. On Facebook this month, the average user created 90 pieces of content and contributed to the more than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) collectively shared each month.

But blogging perseveres – as it should. Gender. Si je ne devais retenir qu'une chose de LeWeb. La curation : nouvel enjeu du storytelling des marques ? Express Roularta Services. Le blogueur et expert des nouvelles technologies Tristan Nicolas en donne une définition précise. Le postulat : « Pourquoi réécrire une idée que j’ai déjà lue, quand je peux juste partager le lien ? » La réponse : « Le curator, c’est la personne qui range les livres dans une bibliothèque. Le terme de Digital curator, s’il est présent sur quelques américains, n’est pas encore très discuté en France.

La curation d’un point de vue digital est le fait de ranger dans sa bibliothèque des liens, et donc toute sorte de contenus. En clair : le web n’est plus seulement une forme d’espace reliant des bases de données entre elles ; c’est désormais un territoire social où la dimension historique est centrale. De façon pragmatique : il est de plus en plus compliqué d’archiver, trier, l’ensemble des trajets, informations, expériences, que nous mobilisons chaque jour sur ou grâce au web. Content Curation: It's Going to Be HUGE. It's counter-intuitive--especially to Americans. But often less is more. When Erin Scime wrote a blog titled: "Content Strategist as Digital Curator", it's pretty clear that she didn't expect to stir up a whole lot of emotions and anger.

Yet, that's what she did--at least in part. "I feel like there are a lot of bitter librarians out there," Scime told me. It's ironic, in part, because all her early training was in library sciences. But the buzz around curation threatens more than librarians--there's a posse of PhD's with pitchforks and torches that didn't much like what Scime had to say. What heresy did Scime actual dare to blog about? Scime today is the Content Strategy Lead at HUGE in Brooklyn--whose clients include CNN IKEA, Pepsi, Jet Blue, IVillage, and Penton Media.

For a former student of Curatorial studies and information sciences to embrace the democratization of the word "curation" rattled some cages. One example Scime points to is the relaunch of iVilliage.