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Is content curation reaching the end of its useful life?
I feel like I have reached my frustration limit with content curation. http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2333416-the-highest-form-of-praise
There are an ever multiplying set of content aggregators and (semi?)-automated curators out on places like Twitter, but while the size of the internet seems to be growing exponentially, more and more content is either plagiarized wholesale from elsewhere or is a circular loop on rehashed ideas.
I've had to put a stop to my own practice of trying to be a curator for the highly specialized topics I am interested in. I'm also slowly unsubscribing from all of the feeds I think are reposted mainly or totally from elsewhere.
Are we reaching a spam singularity, where programmers figure out how to devise pre-Singularity AI methods to spam more and more deceptively that we think the person on the other end really is into us? I get some spam emails that have the look of being authored by undead William Burroughs. More and more "the heat death of email" articles get published- "your post-email future".
My attention, sadly, is not a scalable resource. Are you hopeful at all about some of the tools, companies, or technologies on the horizon that enable better scaling of precious attention span? Or do I just need to Modanafil up and bear it?
Updated: I have been using Prismatic, and on some of the feeds I get i find that I am singling out some "aggregators" like Natural News Network, Science Daily, etc, for termination from my Prismatic feed because they are "drink from the firehose" spammers of extremely questionable content that advances their biased agenda. Even if I agree, I don't need confirmation bias- I need thoughtful content. Priismatic helps, but I'd like to have a button on it that basically says, "never show me bullshit from this source again", and dump the more egregious content firehoses without having to one-at-a-time exclude sources by "remove from view" of those spammy articles and risk having Prismatic confuse my desire to not see "bullshit" from "Natural News Network" et al but show me real, honest content on organic farming, GMO, etc, topics that I *am* interested in viewing, just not from a spammer.
I happen to believe in a post-Norman-Borlaug universe where science, engineering, and nature are all valid techniques to bring to the table, and don't believe in "dumb-it-down" sources like "New Scientist" that toss in the latest genome of Bigfoot as done by UFO Aliens to keep subscription sales up. I'm capable of reading at a level of any Science article- and wished that Prismatic directly digested scientific articles. Fifteen or so years ago, I was getting photocopied keyword searches via my snailmail inbox from Library Services because that's what was state of the art, and I hated it.
There are an ever multiplying set of content aggregators and (semi?)-automated curators out on places like Twitter, but while the size of the internet seems to be growing exponentially, more and more content is either plagiarized wholesale from elsewhere or is a circular loop on rehashed ideas.
I've had to put a stop to my own practice of trying to be a curator for the highly specialized topics I am interested in. I'm also slowly unsubscribing from all of the feeds I think are reposted mainly or totally from elsewhere.
Are we reaching a spam singularity, where programmers figure out how to devise pre-Singularity AI methods to spam more and more deceptively that we think the person on the other end really is into us? I get some spam emails that have the look of being authored by undead William Burroughs. More and more "the heat death of email" articles get published- "your post-email future".
My attention, sadly, is not a scalable resource. Are you hopeful at all about some of the tools, companies, or technologies on the horizon that enable better scaling of precious attention span? Or do I just need to Modanafil up and bear it?
Updated: I have been using Prismatic, and on some of the feeds I get i find that I am singling out some "aggregators" like Natural News Network, Science Daily, etc, for termination from my Prismatic feed because they are "drink from the firehose" spammers of extremely questionable content that advances their biased agenda. Even if I agree, I don't need confirmation bias- I need thoughtful content. Priismatic helps, but I'd like to have a button on it that basically says, "never show me bullshit from this source again", and dump the more egregious content firehoses without having to one-at-a-time exclude sources by "remove from view" of those spammy articles and risk having Prismatic confuse my desire to not see "bullshit" from "Natural News Network" et al but show me real, honest content on organic farming, GMO, etc, topics that I *am* interested in viewing, just not from a spammer.
I happen to believe in a post-Norman-Borlaug universe where science, engineering, and nature are all valid techniques to bring to the table, and don't believe in "dumb-it-down" sources like "New Scientist" that toss in the latest genome of Bigfoot as done by UFO Aliens to keep subscription sales up. I'm capable of reading at a level of any Science article- and wished that Prismatic directly digested scientific articles. Fifteen or so years ago, I was getting photocopied keyword searches via my snailmail inbox from Library Services because that's what was state of the art, and I hated it.
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The article you have read is a load of rubbish, as it is just using scare tactics in order to garner unwarranted and extra media hype, so that you can make the post go viral, just so we can talk about it. The cathartic article uses so much hyperbole, without providing one solution that people of the internet can use to solve the alleged problems.
Q: Are we reaching a spam singularity, where programmers figure out how to devise pre-Singularity AI methods to spam more and more deceptively that we think the person on the other end really is into us?
A: No. Considering how social networks put us the users in control of our content, one might think that it would subject us to more spam, but the oxymoron fact is that that is not the case. In fact social networks and user contributed content websites have less spam, than normal blogs with comments on them. Flagging, Akismet, and spam filters, have practically killed spam.
Q: Are you hopeful at all about some of the tools, companies, or technologies on the horizon that enable better scaling of precious attention span?
A: Can you remember the last time you visited a museum, or seen an advertisement of a new technological advancement or invention, and then thought to yourself about how good it was at the time or how you wanted one? You see, if you look at the history of time and humanity itself, you will find that the whole progress and success of human development, is based on creating new tools that saves people time. Think about it. The timeline of X products, year by year, has advances designed to save you time. What makes certain startups and technologies successful? Because they save people time.
Where do I get my curated content from? Twitter, then I check the related articles or videos in the sidebar. I don't use Quora to find new content.
Where do I store my curated content? On my Diigo bookmarks. I have bookmarks on practically every topic. :)
Where do I share my curated content? I used to use Quora Boards and Markerly for this.
Do I post on a blog? I used to, but not anymore.
What curated content websites do I use, blogs and all, that I like what the curate? Too many to mention here. Be more specific or ask a new question, to find out.