The word curation may seem to be a synonym for aggregation, but in fact it’s a double for “intelligent aggregation”. Museum curators do not, I hope, assemble as much art as possible for an exhibition; rather they apply judgment in selecting what they deem to be appropriate.
Curation is essential to the future of all public content, whether it’s written or visual, as my answer to your prior question implies” Gartner explains. “I don’t understand how human beings can put their arms around the growing volume of what’s available, and at the same time meet their criteria re quality.”
"Google’s Approach to Social 2010
Thats not really social. In fact, a lot of that is antisocial. Social is about finding new people, serendipity, what you don’t know. I’ve said it once and will say it again - Google doesn’t get social the same way Microsoft didn’t get the internet.
We have the mathematics to solve many financial/economic problems but lack the tools to measure and value the relevant variables.
This process was well described by one of its greatest modern practitioners: Margaret Thatcher reportedly asserted that “there is no such thing as society. There are only individual men and women and families.” But if there is no such thing as society, merely individuals and the “night watchman” state—overseeing from afar activities in which it plays no part—then what will bind us together? We already accept the existence of private police forces, private mail services, private agencies provisioning the state in war, and much else besides. We have “privatized” precisely those responsibilities that the modern state laboriously took upon itself in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What, then, will serve as a buffer between citizens and the state? Surely not “society,” hard pressed to survive the evisceration of the public domain. For the state is not about to wither away. Even if we strip it of all its service attributes, it will still be with us—if only as a force for control and repression. Between state and individuals there would then be no intermediate institutions or allegiances: nothing would remain of the spider’s web of reciprocal services and obligations that bind citizens to one another via the public space they collectively occupy. All that would be left is private persons and corporations seeking competitively to hijack the state for their own advantage.
"What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy
Pretty accurate description of the current political economic climate. Privatization of public goods has stripped away society’s allegiance to the state.
In short, Privatization eats away at reasons to be patriotic. Interesting.
Rent-seeking
Cutting yourself a bigger slice of the cake rather than making the cake bigger. Trying to make more money without producing more for customers. Classic examples of rent-seeking, a phrase coined by an economist, Gordon Tullock, include:
• a protection racket, in which the gang takes a cut from the shopkeeper’s PROFIT;
• a CARTEL of FIRMS agreeing to raise PRICES;
• a UNION demanding higher WAGES without offering any increase in PRODUCTIVITY;
• lobbying the GOVERNMENT for tax, spending or regulatory policies that benefit the lobbyists at the expense of taxpayers or consumers or some other rivals.
Whether legal or illegal, as they do not create any value, rent-seeking activities can impose large costs on an economy.
“Not that the physical world will disappear, but the management thereof will become an abstraction - which liquifies it enormously”
Great explanation of the Sixth Paradigm
Cunninlynguists - Streets (f. Sean Price and Poison Pen)
Really nice beat - almost Premier-esque
