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 [...]

Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

(Part one in a five-part series. Intro post is here.) One of the snarls in the content curation discussion is a problem of definition: leaving aside the ethical, aesthetic, and logical questions about the relation of museum or gallery curation to the online world, what do we—web people—mean when we say “content curation”? Completists may [...]

Content & Curation: An Epic Poem

If you follow the discussion about content strategy and new-school publishing, you’ve probably seen at least a piece of the “content curation” tussle that’s been heating up on the web. Here’s the 30-second version: NEWSPAPERS: “The youngs say they’re curating things, even though they do not work in museums.” SOCIAL MEDIA/CONTENT MARKETING PEOPLE: “Content curation [...]

Paying For It

Yesterday, I wrote that content is expensive, and that there are really only four ways to subsidize content online: ads, subscriptions, marketing writeoffs, and paid delivery channels. But we’re not really publishers over here in the web content world, so we don’t need to think about this stuff, right? Eh. If you work in web [...]

Content is Expensive

One of the ideas that kept pecking at my brain while I was prepping for our SXSW publishing panel was this: Content isn’t free. If it’s good, it’s very expensive to make. We can subsidize its production and maintenance in any number of ways, but we have to start being honest—with ourselves, our clients, and [...]

In Defense of the CMS

A couple of weeks ago, an article on The CMS Myth called “Stop Letting People Use Your CMS” made the rounds on Twitter and content-related blogs. The author’s frustration clearly resonated with a lot of people who wrangle content, and some of his points are great: I can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen [...]

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