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We're talking with Robin Good
about curation

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Robin, I love your series of articles

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I highly recommend them

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I just wanted to get directly from you

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a few thoughts about curation online

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starting with

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what do you think the importance

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in the place of curation is,

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for anybody who's online?

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I think, we could see this way

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We reach somehow the limit of

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understanding and making sense

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of information just by going out

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to Google, typing out a query

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and getting a listing of things

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that could be relevant to us.

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I think, this is like being hungry

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and going to McDonalds,

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like having fast food information

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but I want something more

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like when I go to a restaurant

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I can choose the type of restaurant,

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the type of food, the quality, the level,

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the type of customer service

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and so on, so

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I am looking for a new level of

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accessing information whereby

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I'm not just trying to list and rank

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information but then trying to

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make sense of information.

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This is what people want more and more

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because one article by itself or a link,

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or a resource, or a video, sometimes

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it's just a little opening hole

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into understanding that topic

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while if there was some kind of

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intermediate layer, whether done by

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an algorithm or by people contributing

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and working with an algorithm to

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collect things that make sense on

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a certain topic.

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I think we would be in a position

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to inform and learn much faster

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and much better than we can do now.

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What qualities do you think

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a curator ought to have?

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Well, it's got to be somewhat of a very

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curious person and a passionate person

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in area where you want to curate.

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I don't think you can just go about

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curating a topic because you wake up

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and that's something you want to do.

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Well, you certainly can and gain confidence

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within time, but it would be best that

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you go and curate something that you're

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already very passionate about,

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that you've been exposed to so that

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you have some sincerity, some antennas

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that allow you to understand what is good,

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what is better, because then it becomes

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a point of who are you doing this for.

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Are you just an artist painting something

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for yourself or you're creating something

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for a specific audience that's trying to

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intercept a specific need and resolve it

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with that channel of information.

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I would think that knowing the audience

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and being an expert on the topic help

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someone curate whatever type of

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information; I see them as a disposal

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that I think are the key elements, then,

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you got to be very transparent and

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give full credit to whomever you're

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gathering in and expose, actually,

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the best qualities of these sources

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and people, and add something of your own

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that is the ultimate quality of the curator,

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like DJ, I mean, what's the difference

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between putting a mix tape and a live DJ?

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I think those