- We had a great panel in Austin yesterday with Maria Popova (BrainPickings), David Carr (the New York Times), Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard) and Noah Brier (Percolate). Moderated by Max Linsky (longform.org)
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A stream of ideas, cartoons, unrefined sketches, marginalia, iPad wankery, and out-of-context...- The panel started by a classic attempt to better define curation, particularly versus aggregation, a word that has scared traditional media, represented by David Carr.
- Which lead to talking about the ethics of curation, a topic that was nicely covered by Margot Bloomstein last year at SxSWi too:
Creation, Curation, and the Ethics of Content Strategy | Curation & The Future of Publishing
One of the best talks I've attended at SxSWi. By Margot Bloomstein. Very aligned with our own vision at Scoop.it. My key take-aways: - Cu...- It is something Maria feels strongly about as she just proposed a curation code to recognize authorship in the act of curation:
Curators code: a form of labor & intellectual service, but often not treated that way. Attribute discovery as authorship #sxcuration- The the debate moved to the potentially controversial part:how do the media feel about being curated? Some expected a fight but it was a constructive debate:
- David Carr couldn't help being a bit sarcastic but was also positive and recognized the value of curation:
- But he also pointed out that in the process of creating beautiful content pieces, Apps like Flipboard or LongForm stripped original content from its business model: Ads.
#sxcuration starting to get interesting. Interesting split between ads vs no ads, algorithmic vs carefully human curated- The question is around sustainability of the model.
Curation isn't easy: it's easier says @carr2n as you don't have to balance ad & content #sxcuration - that's not how Flipboard sees it.- To which Flipboard answers that they're working on such a model to conciliate beautiful content and beautiful ads. Maria Popova also points out that curation can be sold, though scalability of such a model is questionned.I think in the end, the key take-away is the value of curation, a very human act, amplified by technology - as Marie points out - but pre-existing as Jeff Jarvis also remarked in the previous tweet. A value that resides in discovery and serendipity:
Great curators, like great editors, aspire to expose people to things they might not have otherwise discovered. #sxcuration #sxsw
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