I used to be one of those people who categorized things. I had my urgent to do list, my long term projects, my followups. I was... you know... organiz...
If the word curation is allowed to be diluted down to simply mean "selected" or "quality collection," then it no longer solves the problem we need it to solve.
This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was notable, not so much for what was there as what has vanished.
The future of the web won't be about content sites that drive traffic to commerce sites. It won't be about shopping sites or price matching sites that drive consumers to the lowest price sources. The future is about curation, the thoughtful and useful aggregation and organization of content, context and commerce.
In point of fact, Amazon isn't selling me a copy of Homeland. It's giving me a limited license to view it, under certain circumstances and within certain territories. And I'm guessing that they have the right to adjust those terms and conditions at any time.
As I land in Monaco for this years Monaco Media Forum, I find myself thinking back to 2009 -- the first year of the now annual event, and the panel that I witnessed that began a journey.
Welcome to the new world of media, where the volume is massive, and the filters are human. It's a new way to think of news, but it's the way we're going to in the future.
Now that YouTube has revealed that curation is core to their strategy of contextualizing video content, and curators will be paid, leaders in the Fair Use and Remix community are taking notice.
Quietly, YouTube has embarked on a mission to evolve beyond its history of clips and clicks into a full-fledged channel. Actually, a channel of channels.
Best Buy, having outlived its main retail competitor Circuit City, should be ruling the world. And yet they're in a tailspin. Here's six things Richard Schulze must do to save Best Buy.
There's something happening here. All of a sudden, a song isn't just a song. It's a statement about people's emotions at specific places and times, and it's not from the people who recorded the song.
You can choose to walk away from people that hurt you, that bring you down, that feed off of you; you are allowed to dictate how you want people to play a part in your life, and in what way.
It used to be that company communication was all top down. Today, things are changing fast -- as the tools and networks for communication are broken wide open.
Facebook is big, and getting bigger. So don't feel despondent about the fact that you're having trouble managing the stream of data that Facebook is sending at you. It's not you -- it's them.
If you look at the data, New York is - today - the center of the media universe. Headquarters for 29 of global media companies - New York is 2.4x l...
Business used to be so simple. Manufacturers made things. Stores stocked them. Consumers bought them. Rinse and repeat. Ah, it sounds so quaint standing in the marketplace madness that is 2011.
You know that feeling on a clear blue sky day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. Everything seems right in the world. Well, on the Web - it isn't...
Maybe Blackbook365 just appeals to me because I'm as single as the shot of espresso in my soy latte, but I think this startup may be the most exciti...
The thing Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 presentation nailed was just where the U.S. is on the world stage -- knocking us down from our self-serving perch of being at the cutting edge. In fact, we're lagging behind.
Millennials have grown up with a 24/7 news cycle and reality TV. They know the power of branding and publicity. Every day they act as their own digital publicists, curating and monitoring the 'me' brand.
The artworks that will be utilized to discuss essential human values in the future will be those that continue to offer us unspeakable insight into matters that we as a society continue to feel compelled to reckon.
It's not that Chicago needs more famous artists. We have a lot of them. Instead, what Chicago needs is more of a famous and overarching art world.
After almost a decade, Google is somewhat sheepishly admitting that humans are, well, useful after all.
Jane Austen Manuscript Sold For $1.6 Million One of Jane Austen’s original, unfinished manuscripts was sold at Sotheby’s in London this past Th...
