It’s an important, and undervalued, journalistic skill
Information overload drives content consumers to look for human-filtered, journalist-vetted, intellectually-related material. This hunger for coherence isn’t unreasonable; it’s essential. And for some of us who think and write every day, gathering bits of thread that can then be elegantly knit into a thoughtful narrative isn’t cheating, or lazy. Far from it. Curating is in many ways harder than writing (at least good curating). It’s far easier for me to write 500 words from my head than to find themes and sources and tie them into a broader narrative.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Some of you may be feeling well overwhelmed by the number of posts I have been presenting recently - and rightly so. I think this little piece is most useful, and provides excellent guidelines for those of us who wish to curate items of particular personal interest that we think are worthy of being shared. Do you agree?