The Scholar-Curator as Storyteller

Henry Wessells of The Endless Bookshelf quotes on his site a particularly relevant passage on the production of meaning through scholarship and storytelling: Someone has said that a first-class museum would consist of a series of satisfactory labels with specimens attached. This saying might be rendered : “ The label is more important than the specimen. ” When [...]

A Content Book Apart

I’m writing a book. It’s going to be called The Elements of Content Strategy, and it will be published by A Book Apart in early 2011. If A Book Apart hadn’t been interested in this project, it wouldn’t be happening. This isn’t “a content strategy book” slotted into their lineup; it’s a specific project conceived [...]

Curation Conclusions

In the previous posts in this series, we’ve looked at “curation” in two ways: as a term for the filtering and mosaic-style storytelling bloggers and other web writers do by collecting links, and as a way of thinking about long-term content stewardship. In case you missed any parts, here they are: Intro: Content & Curation: [...]

Slouching Toward the Curatorial

(Part four in a five-part series: Introduction, part I, part II, part III.) Based on my own experience and the comments I’ve seen on content-related discussions of curation, I’m guessing that most content strategists who don’t come from the museum or art worlds don’t realize that there’s a whole field right across the hall (or [...]

The Curate and the Curator

(Part three in a five-part series: Introduction, part I, part II.) The previous two posts in this series discussed the notion of content curation as it relates to “real-time curation” and the filtering/mosaic method of online content production. I’ll be adding on a related post with examples of what I consider to be especially useful [...]

Between the Click and the Curator

(Part two in a five-part series: Intro post. Part I. See also: “Credo: Addendum”) In the previous post in this series, I suggested that we in web-land tend to use the phrase “content curation” to refer to two distinct activities, and then talked a bit about how we got to the current state of collective [...]

Credo: Addendum

As I publish a short series of posts on content curation this week, it’s occurred to me that there are a few core assumptions I’d like to clarify in something like an addendum to the credo on my about page. Content strategy is as obviously important in web development projects as UI design or project [...]

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