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Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
The urban game of human bingo known as Foursquare is the red hot center of accidental curation. Less than a year old, the New York startup known as Foursquare became a 'thing' at the South by Southwest Internet conference in Austin in March, 2009.
Then off I go to scour the Web looking for more news to sift through and ration out to my friends and followers — a natural course of action in my day. I spend a considerable amount of time each day looking for interesting angles about technology, news, journalism, design or just the latest comic video to pass along the daisy chain. Most of us do this to some degree.
‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes
Why Social Beats Search
What's worse, and what Mike and Richard are talking about, is the act of search engine driven content creation.
Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
In my view both writers and readers of content will need to work harder to get quality content. I know I'd rather read an article by The Economist on any given topic, than one generated by Demand Media. But we, as readers, need more help from Google and the other search engines.
Curating farmers
They may be right.
Curation to save media
Consider the Smith family looking to explore a skiing vacation in Park City, Utah. They could look at videos on YouTube, but the chances are they'd be flooded with videos that included some dangerous behavior (hot dogging!) and some adult situations (drinking, etc).
Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc. A curator is an information chemist.
Needs of Curators
Robert Scoble: @laetSgo Pearltrees is one ...
Instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world.
The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati - Room for Debate Blog - NY
The iPad is mainly an Internet device, and we’re still seeing the Internet the wrong way.
iPad
HTML5 vs flash: the controversy
Web curation trend



