Silicon Alley Insider: Can ‘Curation’ Save Media?
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 08:39 via Delicious/martinstabe
"Curation is the new role of media professionals.
Separating the wheat from the chaff, assigning editorial weight, and -- most importantly - giving folks who don't want to spend their lives looking for an editorial needle in a haystack a high-quality collection of content that is contextual and coherent. ... Curation is the sibling of aggregation, a word that the web has know for a while. Aggregation means gathering; finding all videos with the key words 'Easter Supper' in them. But ... gathering no longer adds value. In fact, aggregation can equal aggravation." Read More...
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