{"id":1397,"date":"2009-07-16T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2009-07-16T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:15:48","slug":"another-hat-curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/07\/16\/another-hat-curator\/","title":{"rendered":"Another hat: curator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of my readers know, I&#8217;m a co-founder of a Victoria-based venture called <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocascade.com\/\">MetroCascade<\/a>, which aims to evolve into a go-to site for news, events, and information about Victoria BC. We&#8217;re doing this by first of all providing a platform for blogs and news sources (and events). That&#8217;s only the start, but it&#8217;s already proving quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, the blogs and news sources have grown quite rapidly. We have over 200 sources (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocascade.com\/main\/show_authors\">Authors<\/a> page) and for now several bucket <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocascade.com\/main\/show_categories\">Categories<\/a> (which aren&#8217;t fine-tuned enough and therefore not really satisfactory).<\/p>\n<p>It seems clear to me that, if we want to <em>add value<\/em> to all this stuff we&#8217;re aggregating (and we do), there has to be some level of <em>curation<\/em>. Hence, my new hat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still testing this out &#8211; right now via our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/\">blog<\/a> (which isn&#8217;t currently hosted on <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocascade.com\/\">MetroCascade<\/a>, but I hope soon will be). To date, I&#8217;ve posted five &#8220;curations&#8221;: the first one (called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/2009\/07\/10\/a-first-curation\/\">A First Curation!<\/a>) was really long, the second (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/2009\/07\/14\/highlights-from-the-firehose\/\">Highlights from the firehose<\/a>) shorter, and the third (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/2009\/07\/16\/the-uncategory\/\">The Uncategory&#8230;<\/a>), fourth (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/2009\/07\/16\/lifestyle-is-a-many-splendored-thing\/\">Lifestyle is a many-splendored thing<\/a>), and fifth (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.metrocascade.com\/2009\/07\/16\/the-parenting-environment\/\">The Parenting Environment<\/a>) I wrote tonight, one after the other, with a kind of resignation in the face of content onslaught: there were 15 pages of archives to mull through since the last curation 2 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let readers know how this continues to work out. Right now it seems a bit daunting, but maybe I&#8217;ll develop a system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of my readers know, I&#8217;m a co-founder of a Victoria-based venture called MetroCascade, which aims to evolve into a go-to site for news, events, and information about Victoria BC. We&#8217;re doing this by first of all providing a platform for blogs and news sources (and events). 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