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Content Curation World
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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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Robin Good
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"...I consume a lot of information across an incredibly wide spectrum of disciplines and sources, always aiming to synthesize the meaningful and connect it with something else for a larger portrait of what matters in the world."
Robin Good's insight:
Maria Popova is the editor of Brain PIckings, a unique blog site cum newsletter that curates stories and articles from the web that stimulate the mind of the curious and which provide insight into the type of culture we live in. In an excellent 2010 interview written by Chris Allison, Maria explains what she defines as curation and how she goes about it in her every day work. Every piece of content on Brain Pickings is hand-picked for embodying the sort of cultural interestingness at the core of our curatorial vision – it’s creative, compelling and makes a meaningful contribution to the world; it offers a justification to be curious and enriches you in the process of indulging that curiosity." Maria also provides great examples of curation at work, and explains how all of the advertising on her site is "pro bono" and fitting her objective of curating in full the reader experience. In other words, Maria curates which ads are showcased on her site by selecting those reflecting companies and products she actually believes in for free. She also provides a valuable, and much valid to this day, vision for the future of curation and curators. Niche specialization, is in this case, the name of the game. Very interesting. Insightful. Resourceful. 8/10 Full interview: http://www.neboagency.com/blog/art-curation-interview-maria-popova Check also the Flipboard interview with Maria Popova here: http://inside.flipboard.com/2010/12/31/flipboard-favorite-2010-interview-with-maria-popova/ 
Randy Bauer's comment,
October 5, 2013 1:43 PM
Thanks Robin, I am a fan of Brain Pickings. and of your curation as well.
Brian Kirby's curator insight,
October 11, 2013 4:41 PM
How to sift through large amounts of information... |
Back in Feberuary of this year Debbie Millman has interviewed Maria Popova, the curator of Brain Pickings, Literary Jukebox and the inventor of Curator's Code.
Find out what Maria thinks curation is all about (How do we make sense of the world we through stuff and through objects - whether physical or metaphysical) and why she has become so interested in it.
Maria is a fantastic and highly prolific content curator producing three original posts and between 60 to 70 tweets a day.
Specific interview points I suggest you listen to:
-> 24':30" for combinatorial creativity and the first recorded examples of content curation as a form authroship
-> 27':16" Curation - Do you define yourself a curator?
-> 28':00" Curators don't design, they organize
-> 28':50" What is curation
-> 29':19" Curation and pattern recognition
-> 37':45" The importance of discovery - why attribution matters
Source: http://chipkidd.com/journal/?p=4566
Original audio interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/maria-popova
(duration: 52':07")
.MP3 audio download: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75217989/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c
More interesting interviews: Design Matters Podcast