Jason Kottke and Curating the Web
I dug this interview with Jason Kottke on CBC Radio.
“It’s people like Jason Kottke that help us decide what is and what isn’t worth reading on the Web. He’s been publishing his suggested content at Kottke.org since 1998, and has been doing it professionally, full-time, since 2005. Since he’s getting pretty good at playing tastemaker for tens of thousands of Internet users, we pulled him into studio to ask him how he feels about playing digital curator.”
I am getting a bit tired of the overuse of the term “curator” to mean any person engaged in presenting/mediating culture and content.
About 11 minutes in Jason talks about “the move from peer-reviewed linking to ‘extreme borrowing.’” I’ve noticed that all over the web and I’ve also found myself checking myself from doing that recently.
On a related, giving ‘credit where credit is due’ note, Laura Miner recently wrote an open letter to tumblr suggesting they allow or rename the caption field for image posts to better credit artists I’ve been thinking about this issue as well as I fine-tune the findings/visual bookmarking system for Arlo.
