"Is Online "Curation" the New "Aggregation"?" by PBS News Blog | PBS News Blog
December 1, 2010 at 4:42 PM EST Is online "curation" the new "aggregation"? In Tuesday's , veteran media analyst Bob Garfield blogs about online curation as the source of much of the vital information he comes across (if one considers viral videos and political gaffes "vital information"). Bob writes: "The nearly infinite supply of content demands that we rely on others -- either the crowd as a whole, or tribes with which we identify, or individual experts we've come to trust... For backup, Bob quotes Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum: "Aggregation without curation is just a that seems related, but lacks a qualitative organization." (Who didn't encounter the Dewey Decimal System as a kid and think, "Hey, that's some cool qualitative organization!"?) Curation isn't exactly a new concept -- though it's still unrecognizable by Microsoft spell-check. Of course there's no bigger or more relied-upon curator than PBS. How do you assess the value of credible curation versus auto-aggregation?
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Humans vs machines: Aggregation vs curation
Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user’s dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context. Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it’s still not curation but aggregation So what is curation? Here is my definition: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection. Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic. - Pearltrees is dynamic.
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Online Content Curation: The Key To Building Visibility, Authority And Value
As you are increasingly submerged by an endless flood of information, online content curators may provide a new, valuable service to anyone looking for quality information online: a personalized, qualified selection of the best and most relevant content and resources on a very specific topic or theme. Curated in real-time. When I first wrote about this, six years ago, I called this type of work newsmastering and newsradars, but now that the real-time element has come into play, as much as social media, video, Twitter and other new content sources, the original idea of what a newsmaster / content curator is and what tools and features are really needed has certainly started to change. Photo credit: Erkin Sahin Robert Scoble has recently posted on his blog a fascinating article entitled: Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators. But let's hit on the brakes for a minute and clearly point out what content curation is and why a "new media guide" like Scoble felt the need to make things clear.
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Humans vs. automated search: Why people power is cool again
Pete Cashmore thinks human-powered decision-making may increase the quality of search results. Google is broken, say some technologists, and people-power is the best fixSpam is the big problem with Google search, critics sayOne expert proposes a human-powered solution, says "curation is the new search" Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. (CNN) -- What's the best way to find great links on the web? This has been the perennial question online ever since Yahoo's human-organized directory of web links lost the battle to Google's automated crawlers. What's the problem with Google search? This Google-fatigue began as early as December 2009, when venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky remarked that using Google to search for a new dishwasher delivered nothing but spam results. Others have come to the same conclusion. While the problem is clear, do technologists agree on the solution?
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August 9, 2010 Washington, D.C.‘s local media scene officially welcomed a new player Aug. 9. TBD, as in To Be Determined, is a venture of privately-held Allbritton Communications, which also owns the website and newspaper Politico, an ABC affiliate and a 24-hour cable news channel. TBD.com is not only a local news website, but it also has replaced the TV station websites for WJLA and News Channel 8. It’s okay to launch with bugs. “We could have waited a day or so longer to squash all those bugs. While you shouldn’t launch with major outstanding problems, some bugs are to be expected. Hold ‘What If’ meetings. A few weeks ago they debated coverage of a minor earthquake that had the region talking. “What we decided is to say we’re going to grow together both in content and in sales.” - Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement Develop partnerships pre-launch. Devote time to engage your community. Don’t be afraid to link to others, even your competition. Include tools for easy sharing.
