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 missed it, but I’ve heard such interesting framings of the early days of blogging from . Talking about how you had to fully engage with those you disagree with to get links back, and since it was so difficult to spread virally things weren’t taken out of context
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He draws parallels with the current stage of podcasting which I have found compelling
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Hmm I don’t think podcasting works the same way since it isn’t really an internally linkable random-access medium
Yeah for sure, I kinda went down another conversation branch without enough preface. The idea is since the discoverability of podcast episodes is so low (like the early blogging days) you can engage substantively without fear
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