So long, everyone remembers, the ability to create and publish information was left to the professionals.
But then, suddenly, we all got the freedom and tools to become part of the information ecosystem.
And let's face it, the boom in micro publishing is fun. Check post image, update the status of Facebook, blog like friends or tweet.
Add your voice and your story is part of what fueled the growth on the Web.
There is only one problem with all this micro publishing. We broke the Web.
Today-and almost overnight-had exploded. From the relative lack of a handful of networks in the1970 more pressure and an avalanche of YouTube videos. If you are at all the videos uploaded to YouTube in the past 24 hours, spent eight years-without sleep.
We've flooded the web with uncontextualized content. A little more than a few random tags and some kind of meta-data information ecosystem is flooded with voices, resources, stories, facts, dates, numbers, images, and check-in.
I call it, digital overload, and this is information of the epidemic to the planet.
If you want to separate the signal from the noise is an emerging class of quantum information is called Content Curators. They have links to a number of descriptions of older work, but are in some respects an extremely new. Think of them as journalists who climbed into the time machine and transported into the future, where are the multiple sources and other tools, and the amazing and sometimes reckless speed.
On Friday, I'll be in Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House on the 3rd BBC Online briefing, with the audience of invited partners and suppliers on the BBC. We're about to organize the repositories and what it means for large media players like the BBC.
Curators are collectors and creators. Capturing the zeitgeist on the Web and consistency, images, text, links, and video, together with their own original content to create focused, contextually relevant editorial for overloaded world. The decision is simple, a journalist. Accept your new role as a curator and be part of the solution of digital overload or continue to create separate acts of original journalism and your voice still drowned by the influx of uncensored information.
The need for journalists as a contextual Web Curators undeniable. Are high-speed processors of information education. And the debate about the balance and objectivity, not to mention, they generally have the ability to gather the threads of information from a wide range of sources and weave into a coherent voice. And while at the moment, some relate to the aggregation, and it was possible to organize the repositories of behavior that Arianna Huffington is marked as "sharing ecosystem" could devalue the contents, you can organize the repositories will prove to be the solution to this problem.
In a world of too much undifferentiated data will people pay "tune-in" curators who have finely calibrated filter. British publisher, who manages a Haymarket Media carefully selected medical information about its clinical Advisor magazine and video server. Readers pay with an emphasis on advertisements, and applies them to the revenue from the subscription.
Which makes the video a big price for curators and a big pain point in the world of digital overload.
Chris Anderson, curator of the world today, the renowned TED talks, says to merge this to a web site with moving images-this video will speed up knowledge. Anderson says that we'll be able to share the solution in the world, and across languages. Anderson Says:
"The crowd to accelerate innovation is not new. What is new is that the Internet — and more specifically online video – up to a spectacular degree. "
And Anderson saw this dramatic growth first hand. To date, TED talks, video has been viewed on the Web more than seven million times.
It may be that they are focused on the site now most of all needs, topic-oriented editorial specialists. Individuals who may collect the information, context, information and ideas from the data and noise. Brand new journalists, who can bring different editorial voice among the content environment.
The idea that both the finder/filter the content and the creator of some journalists, it seems it wasn't a piece of work that they love the most. But the tide of digital content has created over overloading unfiltered and growing need for Curators to turn noisy web in an infinite number of trusted vertical.
Digital overload is the problem as an opportunity. One thing is for certain
Growth in digital content will not slow down. How can we make it-and who believe in the development of the information that we need is another big issue on the Web.
Participate online, and you can see as a curator? I'd like to know your thoughts on in advance of the session on Friday, so leave a comment.
Steve Rosenbaum is the author of "it was possible to organize the repositories of the nation"
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