February 6, 2008...9:41 pm
Digital Curator
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Great piece in Micro Persuasion on the idea of the need for, a growth of, the Digital Curator.
“Information overload makes it difficult to separate junk from art. It requires a certain finesse and expertise - a fine tuned, perhaps trained eye. Google, memetrackers such as Techmeme and social news sites like digg are not curators. They’re aggregators - and there’s a big difference.”
Goes on to further define what a Digital Curator is and the role they will play in our futures.
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