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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