A Pound of Curation

“[B]andaging a wound doesn’t make you a doctor. Snapping non-digital photos of empty train tracks doesn’t make you a photographer. So, guess what? Assembling a group of tangentially related things and publishing them online does not make you a curator. So what does it make you? A blogger? A list-maker? An arbiter of taste? Sure, I’ll take any one of those. Just stop calling yourself a curator.” (2011, Hermitage Museum) 

Dear anonymous curator. Take a deep breath. Your job is safe. Have confidence. You’ll be ok.

Meta-Pinterest

Follow Gwyneth Dunsford's board A Meta-Pinterest Board on Pinterest.

For this week's project, I embraced the medium of Pinterest. Therefore, all my thoughts and comments are embedded in my Pinterest board itself.

References

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Erickson, C. (June 2012). “Pinterest Rolls Out Curated Newsletter for Users,” Mashable. Retrieved on February 9, 2016, fromhttp://mashable.com/2012/06/02/pinterest-curated-newsletter.

Morin, P. (May 2012). “An Open Letter to Everyone Using the Word ‘Curate’ Incorrectly on the Internet,” Hermitage Museum. Retrieved on February 9, 2016, from http://aboriginalcuratorinresidence.blogspot.ca/2012/05/httphermitagemuseumwordpresscom20111004.html.

Perez, S. (Sept. 2013). “Pinterest Appeals To Publishers With New Article Pins, Pushes To Become A Bookmarking & “Read It Later” Service." TechCrunch. Retrieved on February 9, 2016, from http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/24/pinterest-article-pins.

Wuebben, J. (2012). “Introduction,” Content Is Currency. Nicholas Brealey Publishing.  Retrieved on February 9, 2016, from http://www.amazon.com/Content-Currency-Developing-Powerful-Mobile/dp/1857885732.