Comments on: Poynter’s hiring. What will their writer/curator be up to?

By: Tali Purkerson

Tali Purkerson — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:48:59 +0000

It seems like they are just attempting to replicate the gatekeeper model, except in the internet plane(s).

If they are trying to arrange and funnel data into a singular vein, completely disregarding the nature of the internet itsself as being an ecological system, it wont work. Philosophically, we are past a “one and only” dictator of content. Google is the closest we will get to that, and even then there will be issues of democracy, and infinite other possibilities for others to create similar aggregation models and “content sifting sites”

Its sort of a hopeless infinity.
Welcome to the death of post modernism.

By: The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:48:41 +0000

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By: I Don’t Get It « Lizr128’s Blog

I Don’t Get It « Lizr128’s Blog — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:40:20 +0000

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By: Mao

Mao — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:11:18 +0000

“We started with the central question of how citizens will make sense of the universe,” McBride says. And the curator position is in part predicated on one clear answer to that question: “They’re going to need some help.”

You’ve got this setup upside-down, I spend far more time explaining what things mean to journalists than I do citizens in the public.

By: Chris Clonts

Chris Clonts — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:52:05 +0000

The title-ification of the web continues down the same path as the title-ification of the newsrooms did.

Remember when we started calling copy editors and/or layout people “designers?” That did a lot for us.

A editor by any other name (curator, whatever) is still an editor.

Why must we invent new words for the same functions? Especially when we must ask (see poynter’s post on “what exactly is this job?”) what it even means.

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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:57 +0000

[...] this is an interesting new job for the right kind of journalist. The idea behind it is expounded on here at Nieman Journalism [...]