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 [...]

This Is Content

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been seeing a lot of smart people experiencing small paroxysms of insecurity about the use of the word “content” to describe the stuff that people publish online. “It’s impersonal,” goes the narrative. “It’s a buzzword.” “It takes all the humanity and warmth out of our stories and insights and [...]

Cocktail Hour: 5 at 5pm

Every Friday around 5pm, I link to five content-related articles that inspired, surprised, and delighted me during the week. Then we drink. “Themes For A Good Infographic” Eoin Purcell, “E-books are a Cul-de-sac” Tim Meaney, “The Future of the Story” Jonah Lehrer, “Attention and Intelligence” Dave Currey, “How to Survive Geolocation’s Looming Apocalypse” Bonus: “One [...]

Visual Content: Beyond Tufte

Visual communication is one of the least frequently explored areas within the content world, possibly because it’s so easy to lump in with UI design, aka Not Our Problem. But many forms of visual communication clearly are content, part of the muscle of a website or other project. In the hands of a skillful communicator, [...]

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