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Reading Steven Rosenbaum’s Curation Nation. Seems interesting, on his site I read this quote from Guy Kawasaki: “Curation, not creation, is king and Rosenbaum shows you why and what you can do with this knowledge. This is a great piece of research and analysis.”

I think that there the opposition between “curation” and “creation” is often exagerated. Using curation tools such as Storify I do add context and my own analysis, and writing an article I do use other people’s ideas and texts, trying to add my stuff to it or to react on what others say. It’s a matter of intertextuality: no text is created totally ‘ex nihilo’ and every real curation is also a new creation.

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