Curation is the new Editing

Friday, April 3. 2009

Curation is the new Editing

From SAI:

....aggregation can equal aggravation.

In walks the early Curators. Arianna Huffington is a curator. Her 'Huffington Post' editorial team picks and chooses what to feature on their home page. Mixing their journalistic editorial work with their hand-picked bloggers and with the best content from around the web. Michael Wolff's 'Newser' is as well. Perhaps the earliest Curator was Matt Drudge with 'The Drudge Report'.

In the Olde Days they were called Editors, and some were helped by Sub Editors.

New Meedja - Old Wine, New Bottles

Posted by Alan Patrick in Dis - Aggregation at 22:28 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Aren't two things being conflated here though: curation (human) and filtering (smart automated aggregation)?

You posted a while back about the introduction of blended curation to Techmeme (http://tinyurl.com/cyyhdq), but I wonder how far can it go in its current form. Interested to hear more about this - do you think it's AI that offers the real opportunity as opposed to "networked" editors (assisted by some trusty algorithms) presiding over the fermenting mulch?

#1 Deirdre Molloy (Homepage) on 2009-04-05 17:31 (Reply)

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