Curation comes up when people realize that it isnโt just about information seeking, itโs also about synchronizing a community.
Clay ShirkyWhat I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
Clay ShirkyIt used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
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