Whether you work in traditional media or social media, or what is more rare, like me, in both, you are already exposed to the phenomenon of "curators ".
have yet to find a french equivalent to the term "Curator". I can immediately tell you is that this term will become increasingly common in your readings. One of the leaders of the explosion of this trend is Steven Rosenbaum, and his upcoming book " Curation Nation "
Some of the most influential thinkers of the web from Silicon Valley have already read the book and have already made an apology. The book site Curation Nation (and yes, even books now have their website) is the messenger of these same critics unanimously positive and seem to foreshadow a new trend, or at least the next buzzword. The phenomenon is not new, those on Tumblr example Curators are in years.
The Curator, historically, was the curator of the museum. He decided to acquire a particular work, the show or not to give him more or less space in the museum . Transposed to the web world, this notion of Curator implies that the aggregation of quality content becomes as important, if not more important than content creation as such. Individuals, such as organizations are advancing their own value based on the quality of content not they create, but they broadcast.
In a certain extent, Twitter works a bit on this principle. Most of the world's broadcast content, references, URLs which come from other sources. Twitter has become my social filter. Looking at the timeline, I know the links suggested by some people will always interesting. Those that grow consistently uninteresting content do not last long in my timeline I have to say ... All those who are on twitter are my social filters, curators of my information. The advantage is that I no longer need to read the newspaper to be informed: information relevant to me I will find itself.
It seems that the mainstream media of this world would benefit by creating applications to customize their content and become curators. The advantage is that by providing such tools, they would offer individuals the opportunity to become their editors of their newspapers on the web. Besides if they do not themselves others will for them to create platforms attorney. Did you know for example that it is now impossible to make a iphone application for a radio? If you offer against an application for several radio stations, or to cut content from several stations, where the Apple App store is still open you. Did you know that has developed its Wordpress Plugin proxy?
I'll bet that quite expensive applying for iPad Murdoch, who was released this week but was postponed, will be a first step in the platforms of Curation. If I was a big media group, I would create an application to subscribe to certain articles of some of my magazines, on the map. And if all the major groups agreed that I pass through a single application, I have a store that would send me articles Geo, National Geographic, the Huffington Post, the Gazette and the Times directly my iPad. yes I SIAS I dream in color, but who knows ... Flipboard is a first step, except that it sends me all the content of some magazines only.
Until I see that also for ordinary Internet users, or for certain organizations, proxy tools to develop and become increasingly popular.
If you are an NGO for example, you could use one of these new tools that allow you to filter what you read, the agglomerate and share. Here is a list ... the length of which shows that the trend is heavy.
- Pearltrees.com (which has the advantage of being in french)
- Storify.com (I like)
- Paper. li (I do not like the way)
- Curated.by
- Keepstream.com
- Trailmeme.com
- Pinboard.in (which looks a bit like delicious, and better, but the design is a bit cold my taste)
- Flipboard (which I already struggling to pass me)
- Scoop.it
- Bagtheweb.com
- Chirpstory.com
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