10y ago curation tech was very hard. The main approach, private/social bookmarking, basically failed entirely.
Now all social media is effectively curation tech. The trick was to raise noise level so it went from optional conscientiousness to required sanity-preservation
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I think your Rhetoric of the Hyperlink article was incredibly poignant. Painted an interesting picture of the very different media landscape ten years ago.
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I'm not sure if that was the trick, The trick really was flipping the curation and social engagement mix. Bookmarking was 95% curation, 5% social engagement. Social media flips that. If you're engaged, you want a curated exp to continue staying so.
Lots of fruit left to harvest re: curation tech. Here's an example of a better twitter experience (in curation terms): smarttypes.org -- ps, I like imagining an alternate world where someone other than Yahoo aquired del.icio.us



