While publishers scramble to create original, new content, popular curators are taking the credits—and the money, says New York Times media critic David Carr. The “curators and the curated” session at South by Southwest sparked heated debate.
Creating vs. Curating
Content curation is the act of (re)discovering, collecting, and presenting content, not necessarily creating new content. lob directory David Carr of the New York Times , is not a big fan of making money from content curation. Next to him on the panel was Maria Popova, curator of the popular website Brainpickings.org . David writes original content, Maria collects and references existing content, and both make a living from it. Also on the panel were Flipboard’s curator Mia , Longform’s Mark tips for selling products online from home Linksy , and founder of the tool Percolate , Noah Brier .
Business model
Maria does consider content curation a form of authorship, David does not. is advertising revenue, while Brainpicking.org’s business germany phone number list model is donations. Maria is one of the few curators who does not earn directly from the content:
“I love researching, writing, editing, and curating Brain Pickings. But it takes over 200 hours a month (add to that another 200 for the twitterfeed and 50 more for the newsletter) Keeping it all ad-free ― which is important to me and.
The Curators Code
Maria started ‘ The curators code ‘ together with a number of other curators . The New York Times a code to indicate that content has been ‘rediscovered’, including mentioning who the original source is. A bit like ‘ creative commons ‘ for images.