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Curation as a Public Service

Posted by Dimitra on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, In : meals 
In my ongoing exploration of curation, I recently read the perspective of a digital marketer and interviewed a museum curator. Here's what I learned:  

In "Become a Content Curation King," Sean Canton (chief creative officer at an advertising, web development, digital media, and brand consulting firm) describes what a successful content curator should think about and do. But the more interesting part of the article, from my perspective, is the discussion that precedes the list of tips. Accordi...
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Curation Continued

Posted by Dimitra on Monday, September 5, 2011, In : meals 
originally published August 2, 2001
 
It turns out someone has written a whole book about what 'curation' means on the Web: Curation Nation: Why the future of content is context. In chapter 1, author Steven Rosenbaum tackles the definition of curation. He refers frequently to an article published in Museum, the magazine of the American Association of Museums: "A New Spin: Are DJs, rappers and bloggers ‘curators’?" This article tackles the question from the perspective of museum curators (ho...
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Authors and Editors as Curators

Posted by Dimitra on Monday, September 5, 2011, In : meals 
originally published July 2011
 
I recently read a very interesting article by writer Maria Popova. She starts by talking about how she uses Twitter and why she believes that tweets are not quite speech and not quite text, but something quite different—what she calls "a conduit of discovery." This leads to a discussion about a new kind of authorship: curation (for lack of a better term). According to Popova, a content curator uses online tools to disseminate information and direct people to v...

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questions and ideas about editing, writing, publishing, and education, inspired in part by my role as Program Chair for the Toronto branch of the Editors' Association of Canada (EAC).
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