Digital Curation and Web 2.0

How the web gives us what we want to see, and that's not necessarily a good thing.

Via catspyjamasnz

Very interesting blog post exploring the intersection between the new curators and the ones who have played this key role as trusted sources of information since a long time: reporters and journalists.

 

"The concept of curating news is not new. One can look to the supply-chain process of a news organization to see that several roles (editor, managing editor, etc.) have curation as a core competency; that is, the organizing of information filed by reporters into a deliverable packages for readers.

But with the push of social media and advancements in communications technology, the curator has become a journalist by proxy. They are not on the front lines, covering a particular beat or industry, or filing a story themselves, but they are responding to a reader need. With a torrent of content emanating from innumerable sources".

So, do these new gatekeepers have to apply the same ethical standards that news organisations?

or a curator is by definition leads by passion and a less neutral role? 

 

"..curators should have more freedoms than traditional reporters in a couple senses, in that part of the appeal of good curation is that it carries the person’s footprint. Opinion isn’t really a bad thing, and in fact gives the content shape in this context.” 

 

Interesting debate, where they key value stays the same: the curator has to find the best practices and guidelines to build trust with his/her audience, in a world where we receive a massive amount of information and content.

Via axelletess

Il existe donc une relation de confiance entre les curateurs et les lecteurs, mais pour arriver à proposer un maximum de contenu de qualité à leur communauté sans passer leur temps à la lire et le sélectionner, certains (beaucoup) de curateurs essayent d’automatiser la publication de contenu provenant de sources de qualité, ils deviennent dans ce cas de simples agrégateurs en temps réel qui font ponctuellement de la curation.

 

<- a trust relationship between curators and readers... Important point! (JS)

Via catspyjamasnz

We’ve been talking a lot about how messy the web has become in recent years. And it’s only getting messier. So much so that simple words will not suffice to describe just how much content is created and uploaded to the internet every minute of the day.

 

Via maxOz

An informative graph. Read also this blog post on Brafton that explores each part of the infographic. A great read and a great reminder of the importance of qualitative content not only to attract your audience but to be a must resource, easy to find.

 

"The power of content for SEO is clear, as 92 percent of marketers cite content creation as effective for search engine optimization. In MarketingSherpa’s latest Search Marketing Benchmark report, content came out a winner, named a top-performing strategy by survey respondents."

 

Again, be an amazing curator, push valuable content. The rest will follow naturally.

Via Gerrit Bes, axelletess