Edith Zimmerman
"Curation comes up when search stops working," says author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky. But it's more than a human-powered filter. "Curation solves the problem of filter failure."
"A lot of it is economic -- doing more with less -- and it has crossed every media industry," explains Allen Weiner of Gartner Group. "If you think about the tools you want to give an editor to make him or her more complete, you want to give them curation tools."
HiveFire CMO Richard Turcott
~ Maria Popova, Brainpicker
~ Mia Quagliarell, Flipboard
~ Maria Popova, Brainpicker
~ Noah Brier, Percolate (re aggregation vs. curation)
Ideas are the most valuable thing. Good ones make all the difference; bad ones can hold us back, maybe even destroy us. If we can focus on finding the right ones, helping distill them, and transfer them as quickly as possible, we can get more of that. Curation is that means to the end.” ~ Peter Hopkins
