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What is technical and complex about self-curation? The whole idea of self-curation is non-technical and anything but complex. One can blame the engineering of

What is technical and complex about self-curation? The whole idea of self-curation is non-technical and anything but complex. One can blame the engineering of RSS and all, and one can even conjure up the conspiracy theories of big media, advertising and such, but the basic fact remains .... people at large are not into curating, finding, searching information on their own. They'd rather other feed information on the plate. There is nothing brainless about such a need. It is just how people wish to evolve.

ricardobeat 14y ago
What does the success of Pinterest say about that?
- webwanderings 14y ago
  Pinterest is a stroefront where people are either selling, or they're window-shopping. How do you arrive at assuming Pinterest as a curation tool? Look at the earlier version of Delicious. It was a curation tool. Look at it now. Do you see a difference between what Delicious now shows versus what you see see at Pinterest? Throw in clipboard.com. They've at it before Pinterest showed up. When it comes to accessing information, there is a difference between "saving" information and "acquiring" it. Sites like Facebook, Google+ etc are all into serving you means to "save" and not acquire. If you wish to acquire information, they'd rather you acquire first through their Ads infested window-front store. By the time you get to the meat of any substantive information, you have lost the real opportunity. The RSS protocol was the real substantive engine of a means to acquire information, an ultimate self-curation tool which empowers one with information and not distraction. Again, you must have noticed, the biggest complaints on the demise of Google Reader came from the typical journalist community and the tech savvy people. The know the value of pipes which was serving them information. The mass never cared and still don't because they'd rather be served. Pinterest and window-shopping sites like these are only creating illusion of curation.

ricardobeat 14y ago

What does the success of Pinterest say about that?

webwanderings 14y ago
Pinterest is a stroefront where people are either selling, or they're window-shopping. How do you arrive at assuming Pinterest as a curation tool? Look at the earlier version of Delicious. It was a curation tool. Look at it now. Do you see a difference between what Delicious now shows versus what you see see at Pinterest? Throw in clipboard.com. They've at it before Pinterest showed up. When it comes to accessing information, there is a difference between "saving" information and "acquiring" it. Sites like Facebook, Google+ etc are all into serving you means to "save" and not acquire. If you wish to acquire information, they'd rather you acquire first through their Ads infested window-front store. By the time you get to the meat of any substantive information, you have lost the real opportunity. The RSS protocol was the real substantive engine of a means to acquire information, an ultimate self-curation tool which empowers one with information and not distraction. Again, you must have noticed, the biggest complaints on the demise of Google Reader came from the typical journalist community and the tech savvy people. The know the value of pipes which was serving them information. The mass never cared and still don't because they'd rather be served. Pinterest and window-shopping sites like these are only creating illusion of curation.