The Shatzkin Files: Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 12:55
"Aggregation … simply means pulling together things which are not necessarily connected. Curation is a term that has always referred to the careful selection and pruning of aggregates, such as for a museum or an art exhibition. But the concept in the digital content world means the selection and presentation of these disparate items to help a browser or consumer navigate and select from them. Aggregation without curation is, normally, not very helpful. Curation creates the brand."
Publishing 2.0: Best Practices for Journalists Curating the Web: New York Times Bits Blog “What We’re Reading”
Sunday, 19 July 2009, 21:07
"The New York Times technology blog, Bits, which features original online reporting by all of the NYT technology journalists, has formally launched a new feature called “What We’re Reading.” This feature (powered by Publish2) illustrates a number of important best practices for how journalists and news orgs can create significant value for readers by curating the web."
BuzzMachine: Journalists: Where do you add value?
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 09:30
Jeff Jarvis: "Journalism can’t afford repetition and production anymore. Every minute of a journalist’s time will need to go to adding unique value to the news ecosystem: reporting, curating, organizing. This efficiency is necessitated by the reduction of resources. But it is also a product of the link and search economy: The only way to stand out is to add unique value and quality. My advice in the past has been: If you can’t imagine why someone would link to what you’re doing, you probably shouldn’t be doing it. And: Do what you do best and link to the rest."
Recovering Journalist: It’s Not the News. It’s the Packaging
Monday, 20 April 2009, 06:06
Mark Potts: "Nobody's ever bought news by the story. … What people do buy are packages of news, often supported by other, non-news content. Journalists don't always like to think about this, but the reasons for subscribing to a newspaper often are as much about the comics, the crosswords and the ads as they are about the news itself. That's what people plunk down their quarters for: the package, not the story. News collected in a convenient, easy-to-use form that adds value."
Silicon Alley Insider: Can ‘Curation’ Save Media?
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 08:39
"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."
Recovering Journalist: Editors as Curators: What’s Taking So Long?
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 07:41
Mark Potts: "On the Web, you're not limited only to the content you own. You can create a rich, deep package for your readers on any subject by linking to outside sources—background, context, documents, data, video, discussions, blogs, user-generated content, etc. Even, shudder, good stuff from competitors. But with very few exceptions, this is done only tentatively, if at all, at the vast majority of news sites. (Big exceptions: Web news mega-success stories—some automated rather than hand-curated—like Google News, Huffington Post and Drudge Report. Hmmm–suppose they know something?)"
Nieman Watchdog: The changing truths of journalism
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 07:18
John Byrne: "As the editor in chief of BusinessWeek’s online operations … I’m both perplexed and shocked by the magazine industry’s laggard status. We have every advantage in largely serving existing communities of readers in specific niches … When we talk about other new ways to compete, most magazines don’t seem to know where to start. Aggregation? Forget it. Few editors want to link to other stories that send people away from their own sites. Curation? Writers don’t “curate” journalism or discussions. They report and file stories and move on."
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 06:47
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"As part of our aim to create more community tools we also have a facility to allow your friends keep up with you, to show them what you’re reading. This is what we call clippings."
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 23:24
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"link blogs, are really a subset of edited news aggregation … Because the content is being vetted by an editor, readers can assume that they’re being directed only to relevant, non-redundant reporting (assuming they trust the editor)."
