Scrapbooking, journaling, and curating on Pinterest. It is
a first day for everything. Today, I have found out that curating on Pininterest is a nice experience: colorful, creative,
engaging.
“Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a
content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide
a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their
focus” (Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum, 2012). Thus, I used Pinterest to “sav[e]
and shar[e] stories [I found] around the web” (Perez, 2015), focusing my
attention towards materials related to what I liked most throughout the course:
digital literature and storytelling. It was fun! #digitalliterature
I used this opportunity, to ‘talk’ a bit about digital
storytelling. #digitalstorytelling
I found interesting that some consider one
cannot write a story on Twitter (using only a few characters), and the word curator used on Pinterest is a bit exaggerated. For
instance, this seem to upset Harold Koda,
an “actual curator” (Tahltan_channel_surfer, 2012): “The very meaning of the
word [curator] is starting to change, and that makes me crazy” (Tahltan_channel_surfer,
2012). I appreciate Koda’s opinion, but I
also appreciate that if 70 million users on Pinterest are embracing the
change, there is little he can do about it -- especially, in an era when “content
is currency” and “creation, optimization, distribution, and curation”(Nicholasbrealey.com, 2015) are key
in succeeding online.
References
Nicholasbrealey.com,. (2015). Content is Currency.
Retrieved 14 February 2015, from
http://nicholasbrealey.com/boston/content-is-currency.html
Perez, S. (2015). Pinterest Appeals To Publishers With
New Article Pins, Pushes To Become A Bookmarking & “Read It
Later” Service. TechCrunch. Retrieved 13 February 2015, from
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/24/pinterest-article-pins/
Rosenbaum, S., & Rosenbaum, S. (2012). Content
Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web. Fast Company. Retrieved
13 February 2015, from
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-new-superheros-web
Tahltan_channel_surfer, P. (2012). a-machine-to-return-the-songs-to-the-land:
http://hermitagemuseum.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/an-open-letter-to-everyone-using-the-word-curate-incorrectly-on-the-internet/.
Aboriginalcuratorinresidence.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 13 February 2015,
from
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I like how you arranged your storyboard, Adela - you curated a very intuitive layout. I started in the centre with the chicken-and-egg pin, drifted to the left, then came back to the right and had the material necessary to transition out of the pins into a more in-depth look at digital lit via the Amazon link and power point you pinned.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking for material to create my post, I came across a Mashable article that outlined how people view pin boards - http://mashable.com/2012/05/29/pinterest-eye-tracking-study/ - funny enough, it follows the retail layout system as well - goods are laid out according to highest profit margin at the centre, then to the left, then the right. This is why we usually see department stores install their cosmetic and fragrance departments dead-centre front. It reflects the way our brain works.