March 2012
24 posts
The Curation Debate | Noah Brier dot Com →
pco.lt
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about curation over the last year and it was interesting to watch the conversation explode this week. I felt like I had to weigh in and this is an attempt … I don’t have all the answers, but I think the debate is healthy and productive. We need to find better ways to credit creators of content.
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“Fetishizing “social” has become a major distraction, and we’re clearly a country that loves to be distracted. Our job in the media is to use all the social tools at our disposal to tell the stories that matter — as well as the stories that entertain — and to keep reminding ourselves that the tools are not the story. When we become too obsessed with our closed, circular Twitter or Facebook ecosystem, we can easily forget that poverty is on the rise, or that downward mobility is trending upward, or that over 5 million people have been without a job for half a year or more, or that millions of homeowners are still underwater. And just as easily, we can ignore all the great instances of compassion, ingenuity, and innovation that are changing lives and communities.”
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Am I the only one shocked to read Arianna Huffington railing against the fetishization of social media and “virality”?
Arianna Huffington: Virality Uber Alles: What the Fetishization of Social Media Is Costing Us All
Percolate Founder James Gross On Starting Up and His Plans for SXSW : Innovation :: American Express OPEN Forum →
pco.lt
Nice story about James and his foray into Hispanic advertising prior to Percolate.
