The Five Laws of the Curation Economy<\/p>\n
The First Law:<\/strong> People don\u2019t want more content, they want less. We\u2019re overwhelmed in raw, unfiltered, context-free data. Humans want it to stop.<\/p>\n The Second Law:<\/strong> Curators come in three shapes. There are Curation Experts \u2014 people whose background and depth of understanding makes their curatorial choices valid. If you\u2019re looking for medical advice, you want your video viewing curated by a doctor, not a patient. There are Editorial Curators, who manage the voice and the collections of the publications and sites they organize. And there are Passion-Driven Curators, they love their particular area of focus and attention and bring that single-minded focus to every piece of content they touch.<\/p>\n The Third Law<\/strong>: Curation isn\u2019t a hobby, it\u2019s both a profession and a calling. Curators need to be paid to be part of the emerging ecosystem. What\u2019s a fair fee will depend on how critical the curator\u2019s output is in the category. But an economic basis is essential, and inevitable.<\/p>\n The Fourth Law:<\/strong> Curation requires technology and tools to find, filter, and validate content at the speed of the real-time web. Curation can\u2019t simply be a human with a web browser \u2014 the mix of man and machine is essential here.<\/p>\n The Fifth Law:<\/strong> Curation within narrow, focused, high-quality categories will emerge to compete with the mass-media copycats who are filling the curation space with lists, cat videos, and meme links.<\/p>\n [update: these are by Steve Rosenbaum, found on HuffPo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Five Laws of the Curation Economy The First Law: People don\u2019t want more content, they want less. We\u2019re overwhelmed in raw, unfiltered, context-free data. Humans want it to stop. The Second Law: Curators come in three shapes. There are Curation Experts \u2014 people whose background and depth of understanding makes their curatorial choices valid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}