In the Information Age, Curators are King(blog.earbits.com)
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In the Information Age, Curators are King
http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/in-the-information-age-curators-are-king/
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When I worked on crowd-based duration stuff at the Cheezburger Network, we noticed that long-form content (video, even 5-panel comics) were much harder to crowd-curate than single pictures. I am sure that even short Sci-Fi stories have the same problem.
Back when podcasts started to get huge, I listened to a weekly podcast that reads some sci-fi stories to you: Escape Pod. From what I remember, it's actually pretty decent and they have a whole network of other genres as well, covering horror and fantasy.
I love your use of the word DRECK :)
I'd be surprised if the percentage of poor quality fiction, and SF writing is higher compering to the percentage in other areas, such as music, movies, theater, etc. There's lots of good stuff, but a ton of DRECK.
I'd be surprised if the percentage of poor quality fiction, and SF writing is higher compering to the percentage in other areas, such as music, movies, theater, etc. There's lots of good stuff, but a ton of DRECK.
This article only talks about crowd curation, yet curation by an individual is even more effective and important nowadays (despite being under the radar compared to "social" sites).
I used Earbits as an example for curation by an individual.
Yeah, I saw "We have a team of musicians who listen to each and every song before adding it to the rotation" but assumed that was just a smaller example of a "crowd." Or is each team member getting the final say on individual tracks (e.g. individual curators) rather than it being a group decision?
Yeah, each member is in charge of a their own music genre; rock, hip-hop, electronic, etc. When in doubt we consult each other.
Bringing this back around to my "point", I find it interesting that you don't have a "Quora" or "Earbits" of online fiction, let alone Science Fiction anywhere. I wonder if that's because there are more people who listen to music than who read... or some other problem? Or maybe it's just that my experience still is the average one, and because you need talent to pick up a guitar and get out even a chord, and not so much to write, perhaps there's just so MUCH noise versus signal in writing that you can't curate it successfully (short of being a traditional publisher, and we all know how well they are doing these days).