Content Foraging
As I discussed last time - assuming I made any sense - over the next few weeks we'll be opening up our tools to those in our community that wish to express themselves and share knowledge -- yes yes, publish content, fine. And that's all nice and fine, but the eternal philosophical question "If you're writing an Haiku in the forest, and a tree falls on you but no one hears it, is it content?" is always present and we need to address it!
Yes, it's content! Get well soon! ❤️🩹
But what if that tree doesn't fall and in fact you're not in the forest and there's other people writing Haikus or worse, Vogon Poetry how will people read your work?
To answer that we must go to the pre-algorithmic therefore pre-historic time of the 2010s and the archaic notion of personal content curation
Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest, usually with the intention of adding value through the process of selection, organization, and maintenance of the items in a collection or exhibition. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users.
But why?
We believe our Tribe is incredibly talented, we've seen the things they come up with, the things they say, the stories they tell. In a World of Quantity we think Quality is better, and while we can hyper grow quantifiable metrics, Quality remains a process that envolves opinion and discernment. And while there's Art in Building , there's also Art in Foraging and as much as we ALL ABSOLUTELY LOVE ALGORITHMIC CONTENT CURATION, we'll approach this the old fashion way (again, old fashion is 2015 or thereabouts)
Editorial Note: There are, in fact, as of today, two lists clearly marked as Algorithmic / Automated . Please continue reading and don't point this fact out.
What's the Plan then?
Starting today, you'll see a new item on the navigation bar called Stories - in it you'll see a series of Lists . We'll first release our own take on curating the content we have, we also need to learn and tweak things just enough to make it good. At the same time we'll expand the ability for the tribe to bring their own stories in to the mix.
Finally, we'll open up the curation tools for everyone, namely you'll be able to:
- Create your own lists and carefully curate it's contents
- Share them publicly
- Save and see what your favourite curators are curating (basically you'll Curate the Curator's Curation, which is a 3C reference I was contractually obligated to include)
Why are you telling us this?
Over the past years we've done a lot of work but it wasn't always front facing and it wasn't always for everyone, THU's success comes from all our initiatives and that had to come up first, even if they all involved and were made for the Tribe .
This makes is sometimes difficult for us to walk everyone through the process and ideas, but these two new features are different, they're for everyone and we'll have to exercise some muscles we haven't exercised in a while. Different tools, different approaches, I want to be clear about what we're trying to achieve, first, and as we go along and we observe the results, I'll want to be clear about whatever changes we'll have to make.
I should also mention that the work that
Hope this makes sense, BUT IF NOT, use the comment box bellow please :)
