A Curated List of Articles About Curation
Kurt Wagner @ Re/Code - There’s a Shiny New Trend in Social Media: Actual Human Editors “While Facebook has been doing this to your News Feed for years with an ever-evolving software algorithm, the new wave of curators are hiring human editors to get things just right.”
Benedict Evans - Search, discovery and marketing “Saying that ‘Yahoo’s directory didn’t scale’ misses the point. What we’re really seeing is a trade-off between two problems.”
David Byrne - a great curator beats any big company’s algorithm “Nowadays, everything and everyone can be curated.” Ben Thompson - Curation and Algorithms “Despite curation’s advantages the two biggest content players of all — Google and Facebook — are pure algorithmic plays.”
Julia Greenberg @ Wired - Humans Are Tech’s Next Big Thing—And That Could Be Risky “If Apple, Twitter, and Snapchat plan to depend on humans, even in some part, to serve up content, they’ll also have to be prepared for the problems that come along with that bias and subjectivity.”
