“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then he or she adds value to that molecule by passing comment” (Robert Scoble)…kind of like a narrative? – Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Google [...]
We are all drinking from a firehose… We live in an age of information abundance; where information is no longer power. The deluge of information has crippled us, creating a lack of trust and confusion about where to look for the right information. But there are information nuggets; atoms of critical information…atoms that when brought [...]
He is not the most gifted presenter in the world. As my colleague Rand explains “he is an average presenter because his mind is racing too far ahead of his ability to verbalise” But if you needed to know only 4 people in the world to help you better understand how to build a social [...]
Jacek Utko knew the importance of Curation when he spoke about how Design could save Newspapers at TED in 2009. By applying new design principles, and giving greater emphasis to the ‘curation’ of content and information, Utko has helped some of Europe’s newspapers turn around their slumpng readership numbers. When Alan Webber spoke about the [...]
We speak a lot about the Edelman Trust Index to our community, and always get a kick out of pointing out to our CEO colleagues that they are the LEAST trusted soruce of information about their company (source: Edelman Trust Index, March 2009) So, we were even more interested to see the latest results from [...]
At the end of 2009, Google (and Bing) agreed to integrate tweets into keyword related Google searches. In January 2010, Google integrated real-time search technology to surface blog posts and news content as they hit the Web – dramatically improving the previous time it would its spiders would take to crawl the Web. This move [...]
The problem with the web is that the web is its own worst enemy. Since there’s so much stuff on it, it is all mostly unedited. So, rather than calling it “editing,” which is what it needs, people have invented the fancy word “curation.” And what does this mean for the future of the magazine? [...]
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