Curated Computing: What's Next For Devices In A Post-iPad World

Curated Computing: What's Next For Devices In A Post-iPad World


Overwhelmed? Welcome the Age of Curation
By Eliot Van Buskirk
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/feeling-overwhelmed-welcome-the-age-of-curation/

3) News publications filter the news.

Before the internet and Google all we had was curated news, in that readers typically got all of their news from one or two paper publications, which are closed systems. When the news went online and the internet opened up news distribution, aggregation became important.

A Google News search on a current event typically reveals thousands of articles on the same topic, and the sheer number of current events being reported has skyrocketed in the past decade, which has made curation important once again. Like baleen whales, news reporters and editors filter through a sea of information to find the relevant, true and interesting bits, so that readers whose days are dedicated to other matters don’t have to manage that on their own.

Original reporting is still as important as it was before — perhaps even more so, because being “patient zero” on a story is a great way to get everyone else to link back to you.

4) Consumption devices curate functionality.

Finally, we arrive at the sort of curation Epps is talking about. The Kindle, cellphone, MP3 player, GPS and other specific-purpose devices curate functionality in order to deliver a better experience than a general-purpose desktop computer could ever deliver. This holds especially true for devices designed around consumption, such as portable MP3 players or big-screen televisions.

IPhone OS devices including Epps’ iPad, however, offer a multitude of functionalities because of their ability to install thousands of programs, curated though they may be. When a “curated computing” device offers general functionality and a large screen, geeks get nervous because they view it as a blow against computing freedom.

But unless demand for general, non-curated computing devices dries up, they needn’t worry. After all, just because Facebook exists doesn’t mean you can’t still post your own webpage.

Still don’t believe we live in the Age of Curation, of which the iPad is just a recent manifestation? Go save everything you run across to read later using Instapaper, even from your Twitter and newsreader feeds (themselves forms of curation), which you can then read on the functionality-curating iPad and Kindle devices.

If that’s not enough, try GiveMeSomethingToRead or Longform.org, both of which curate specifically for Instapaper itself.

このへんが、面白い。


「情報過多の時代」の鍵は「キュレーション」
2010年5月17日
http://wiredvision.jp/news/201005/2010051723.html

キュレーション・ジャーナリズム
http://storify.com/makoto524/story2