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Good story. I completely agree that all of this auto-curation will bury the eclectic collections and poison discovery. That is one big reason I started my side
by sheraz 10y ago
Good story. I completely agree that all of this auto-curation will bury the eclectic collections and poison discovery.
That is one big reason I started my side project, curabase.com[1], to simply enable anyone to curate their own list of bookmarks. (Not a new idea, but it is MY idea based on this singlular thought -- that human curation will always be better, and NO. I don't have data to back it up :-)
- bmer 10y agoBut human curation can be bought/influenced. So, in your system, influential curators could be influenced by advertisers to display certain links in their list of bookmarks?
- sheraz 10y agosure. And good for them. The curator risks his own reputation by promoting sponsors with poor content, products, or services that are not relevant to the audience. I don't mind advertising/marketing so long as it is relevant and timely.
- bmer 10y agoThat's assuming the payments were to include something in the list. Influence can also work the other way: take something off of a list.
- sheraz 10y agoyeah so what. that is the privilege of having power, you can exchange it for other forms of power. And again, credibility is at stake. If I curate a list of awesome cloud providers, and IBM pays me to exclude AWS, then I look like an idiot.