‘You are what you curate.’ Wise words from GigaOm. But is the trend for curation dumbing down the content that we share?
Marketing Babble is becoming Social Babble – here’s why
The best connected people have the highest klout scores, those who tweet more tend to get more followers, you have to checkin to stay at the top of the game on foursquare. Has social media taught us to value people more when they are constantly “online” and respond to us in an instant? Is social changing the way in which we view success?
‘Our curation itself is representative’; what you choose to share and what you want to be remembered is as important to the person you outwardly (and perhaps inwardly) become as what actually happened. But since the advent of frictionless sharing is curation becoming more about removing than selecting your most loved events, memories and pieces of content?
I’m sat here now watching Zuckerberg saying that the amount that people want to share is increasing on a BBC documentary. The ticker is an [...]
I found this great presso on slideshare today on how to effectively prepare for a brainstorm. Having just been through a particularly vigorous ideation session [...]
I love, love the principles behind Google plus – I think many people had the ‘that is sooo true’ moment when reading through their thinking on how Facebook and Twitter don’t allow us to filter our social activity in the same way we catagorise the different people in our lives. But I have really struggled to adopt it because I can’t answer the question of what role it plays in my life. Was their success short lived or did it even happen at all?
I read Matt Herman’s article this week lamenting the (downward) creative spiral. Having been trained that imitation was once the basics of all art by [...]
Using the real world to emphasise the benefit Ads don’t mean much any more alone. It’s the story behind them that convince and engage the [...]
After mixing up the date for Eli Parisier’s lecture on the filter bubble at LSE today, (lesson: never trust your deskmate’s diary organisation over your [...]
‘You are what you curate.’ Wise words from GigaOm. But is the trend for curation dumbing down the content that we share?
Marketing Babble is becoming Social Babble – here’s why
The best connected people have the highest klout scores, those who tweet more tend to get more followers, you have to checkin to stay at the top of the game on foursquare. Has social media taught us to value people more when they are constantly “online” and respond to us in an instant? Is social changing the way in which we view success?
‘Our curation itself is representative’; what you choose to share and what you want to be remembered is as important to the person you outwardly (and perhaps inwardly) become as what actually happened. But since the advent of frictionless sharing is curation becoming more about removing than selecting your most loved events, memories and pieces of content?
