Curation – The Power of Selection in a World of Excess (Michael Bhaskar)
Curation is one the books that have stayed for a long time with me. At first glance, the book may seem rather boring. Michael Bhaskar’s book, ‘Curation’, starts with reciting trivial facts and...
View ArticleThe context of the curation: computation as a general purpose technology
In the previous article, I have quoted a few excerpts from the introduction of Bhaskar’s book on curation. Here you can find some of the core points of the first chapter of the books: The long boom in...
View ArticleCuration and the overload problem
Michael Bhaskar says, somewhere in the middle of the second chapter of his book, that we’ve become impatient. To prove his claim, he has collected a wide variety of data and statistics, some amazing...
View ArticleThe principles of curation
In my previous posts, I’ve summarized some points and ideas I’ve found in Michael Bhaskar’s book titled Curation. He starts his argument with describing the context of the curation. The long boom, as...
View ArticleWhat is evergreen content and how you can leverage it in your content strategy?
Evergreen content is currently a buzzword in content strategy, and it’s considered as a key success factor for content providers. Here I’ve provided some answers to the most popular questions about the...
View ArticleThe Chief Content Officer’s Job Description
Chief Content Officer as a corporate position The first point we should bear in mind is that the Chief Content Officer or the CCO, like many other C-suite roles, is a corporate position. It means that...
View ArticleBook Review: The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
It looks like a must-read for anyone interested in technology. The new digital age is written by two executives of Google, one of the most powerful corporates of the digital age. Both authors have...
View ArticleMass Amateurization of Publishing (Clay Shirky)
What does “mass amateurization” mean? Here is the simplest definition of the term: Mass amateurization happens by removing or weakining of the entry barriers to a professional field. But we should keep...
View ArticleDigital Content Revenue Models for Online Businesses
We all know that a reliable revenue model is one of the major pillars of a viable content strategy. Here I’ve listed some of the most popular revenue models used by content-based businesses. While I...
View ArticleSearch Engines and the Future of Serendipity
Just a few days ago, I had the chance to watch a video clip of James Gleick talking about his then-recent book, Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood, in the Talks at Google program (here you can...
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