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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