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Sorry. Is there another word to describe "curation", that tickles your hate nerve less? And it's not just in selecting startups for batches, but as I mention,
by dariusmonsef 15y ago
Sorry. Is there another word to describe "curation", that tickles your hate nerve less?
And it's not just in selecting startups for batches, but as I mention, communication between founders, etc.
Not a bad thing, just one approach to creating a community experience.
- davidw 15y agoNo, not a bad thing at all, it's the natural state of pretty much anything where a person selects a set of things from a larger set. Which, given the finite nature of a great deal of that which surrounds us, is... well, a lot of stuff! "Most of the people in our office were curated by my old boss before he moved to another division" "The few, the proud, the...curated" "I curated my wife from amongst those on offer in the mail-order catalog"
- defen 15y ago"Curate" (verb) is one of those words that has lost most of its meaning, due to people using it in order to steal its cachet. Previously it was associated with art museums and libraries, institutions of supreme cultural importance. Now that anyone can make a list and put it on the internet, anyone can be a curator, which means you don't get much information about someone if you learn that he is a "curator".
- davidw 15y ago> Now that anyone can make a list and put it on the internet The funny thing is that is what Yahoo was in the very beginning, 15+ years ago.
- beachgeek 15y agoOK, I laughed out loud at the last one. Its true how that word has lost its meaning. Don't mean to pick on the article from the OP though, he seems like a nice enough guy.