Comments on: Am I curating yet? Drawing the lines between creation, aggregation and curation

By: Everyone’s a Curator, Now « The Bigger Picture

Everyone’s a Curator, Now « The Bigger Picture — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:17:51 +0000

[...] Facebook. “The word ‘curating’”—as one exasperated Tweeter quoted in a blog post called “Am I curating yet?” put it—“need some curation.” The curator is out of work, by Ernesto De Quesada, Creative [...]

By: Catherine Shteynberg

Catherine Shteynberg — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:10:48 +0000

Curating isn’t merely about choosing what items are important or deciding as Ian mentions what you deem “good” art–curating, at least in my own definition, means bringing new things to light about an idea, re-framing ideas in a way that people haven’t yet broadly. Curating typically takes a lot of time and research. So, telling someone that an article, exhibit, or cool thing exists doesn’t = curating. And in fact, even adding a bit of context isn’t necessarily curating in my book–RT a NYT article and for example, saying it’s interesting or relevant to folks interested in current politics in Iraq doesn’t do it. In an art context, hanging a bunch of Van Gogh paintings on the wall isn’t curating for me either (that’s more like organizing an exhibit)–you have to build upon big ideas about that artists, the paintings themselves. Perhaps it seems like a nitpicky distinction, but otherwise the verb “curate” seems pretty meaningless to me.

I’m sure I’m biased by my art/museum background, though I don’t believe that “curating” only belongs in the art realm. I found this article enlightening, though it does come from an art background:
http://www.eyecurious.com/word-of-the-year-2009/

That’s why I don’t really consider the type of sharing and aggregating that goes on within Twitter or Facebook streams “curating”. Perhaps they are the “research” that precedes curating.

By: Vital statistics for B2B marketers – The case study « Earnest about B2B

Vital statistics for B2B marketers – The case study « Earnest about B2B — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:08:53 +0000

[...] of this year, we thought it would be worthwhile to piece together some of this research (call it content curation if you will) to tell a meaningful story on the state of the nation for B2B [...]

By: The past, present and future of content curation

The past, present and future of content curation — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:52:46 +0000

[...] The word still doesn’t appear in most dictionaries, so myself and others have been chiseling out a definition post-by-post. Etymology is one thing, but to fully understand curation we need to look at its [...]

By: Curation, attention deficit and the exaflood

Curation, attention deficit and the exaflood — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:12:13 +0000

[...] devoted to all mentions of “curation”. Added shortly before I started searching for a working definition of curation, it was the perfect solution to the problem of keeping up with all the latest murmurings on a topic [...]

By: Content & Curation: An Epic Poem : Incisive.nu

Content & Curation: An Epic Poem : Incisive.nu — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:19:20 +0000

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By: Informācijas kuratori | nombre.lv

Informācijas kuratori | nombre.lv — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:10:49 +0000

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By: Curation: Definition before innovation?

Curation: Definition before innovation? — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:20:47 +0000

[...] I’m right in the thick of the content curation definition debate, I’m starting to think it’s fundamentally a distraction from real innovation. It’s a [...]

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Unobtrusive pop-up surveys for your blog? Try KISSinsights — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:33:59 +0000

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By: Ian Greenleigh

Ian Greenleigh — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:32:04 +0000

All three? Uh-oh. I think you just blew my mind. In any case, you bring up a good point: We may be dealing with an artificially-imposed set of distinctions.

Throughout writing this, I kept thinking of modern art. Every once in a while, even the most cultured art lover comes across something that they question as to whether it fits in the art “bucket”. But why not just say it’s all art and call it a day? This still leaves room for bad art, just as there certainly can be bad curation, creation and aggregation.

Really appreciate you lending your two cents here, Clinton. Cheers.