How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny of the Timeline
When I first started blogging in 2004, I didn’t like the way blogging software gradually pushed older stories off the page and into the archives.
It tended to discourage me from writing some posts because I didn’t want to lose better, or what I thought were more important posts, from the home page.
Because once articles enter the archives it is like disappearing into a deep well. They are gone. And search won’t help because search only works if you know something is there.
This tyranny of the timeline, where each new post pushes one more post into obscurity, still continues today and it has accelerated as the amount of new content rises to ever greater levels.
That’s one reason why I published my book, “In My Humble Opinion: Notes from a SIlicon Valley Watcher.” It was a way to rescue some of my favorite essays and posts from the oblivion of the archives.
Online curation is another way to do it. Here is an example: I made a Pearltree that contains my favorite essays/posts from the past few months:
Google’s Search For Quality… And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Some Thoughts On The Social Distribution Of Mass Media…(SoDOMM)
The Demise Of Social Media And The Return Of Mass Media
The World Has Room For Only Nine More Googles… Or 1,000+ Startups
Support Good Journalism And ‘Pay The Wall’
Muckraking: A Disappearing Form Of Journalism?
Wow. Twitter’s Response To Bad Press: Unfollow
Analysis: Here’s Why Demand Media Valuation Is Greater Than NYTimes…
Saturday Post: The Evolution Of Homo Extrovert
Aggregation Is Not Curation – There Is A Big Difference
[Cross-posted at Silicon Valley Watcher]
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