“New Style Curators”: Do They Exist?

I was a former “old-style” curator who began participating in the online world right around the time that ideas about so-called “new style curation” started cropping up…everywhere….so this panel — which features Paddy Johnson...
Ryan Trecartin’s riverthe.net Could Use More Flow

Ryan Trecartin’s riverthe.net Could Use More Flow

Ryan Trecartin’s latest big project is riverthe.net, an online website in which anonymous users can upload 10 second video clips and are asked to provide them with a maximum of three descriptive tags. The videos are then incorporated into the site’s larger...
Annals of Curation: ‘Curated Computing’

Annals of Curation: ‘Curated Computing’

I’ve been following the ‘curation’ meme for awhile now, and find its latest iteration particularly fascinating. Whereas in the recent past, the term ‘curated’ has tended to crop up in marketing and shopping-related contexts (i.e....