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Excerpt from Steven Rosenbaum's article on mashable.com

"...We don’t have an information shortage; we have an attention shortage,” Seth Godin said. “There’s always someone who’s going to supply you with information that you’re going to curate. The Guggenheim doesn’t have a shortage of art. They don’t pay you to hang paintings for a show — in fact you have to pay for the insurance. Why? Because the Guggenheim is doing a service to the person who’s in the museum and the artist who’s being displayed.”

As Godin sees it, power is shifting from content makers to content curators: “If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power....”

A timely piece as this is exactly! what I'm writing about today in the context of interactive documentaries. I'll be posting that later...

Read Rosenbaum's full article:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/curation-importance/

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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:46:00 -0700 A Case for Content by Eloqua and JESS3 - Darn Good Slide Deck! http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-case-for-content-by-eloqua-and-jess3-darn-g http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-case-for-content-by-eloqua-and-jess3-darn-g

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