Where is the Web Going? • Hacker News Board

Re: Where is the Web Going?

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Post by hackinthebochs » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

ilkandi wrote: post #15

kruhft wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The aggregation of data can be considered content, such as the yellow pages or delicious, which, I think can also be copyrighted. So if your intent is to collect links to content, I would say technically, you are creating content. Look at this site, at least at the top level.

I don't consider the Yellow Pages to be content, just hard-to-gather data. For this site, the top level is data which points to content. The comments are the content, for me.

Aggregating data is content if the data in aggregate has more value than the pieces do independently. Isn't that essentially what all content is: a new organization of pre-existing data that has more value than the pieces separately? A song is a particular ordered collection of sounds that has more value than its individual pieces.

Re: Where is the Web Going?

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Post by zwieback » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 10:28 PM UTC

joebadmo wrote: post #18

zwieback wrote: post #16

I agree with the characterization of the past but I don't think curating is the answer either. You can't easily distill quality content out of a sea of junk. Much of the best content on the web still comes from traditional editorial organisations like NYT, Economist, etc. Free-for all social content works great for sites like StackExchange but I don't even think Quora, which is kind of like a curator, is going anywhe…

"...I don't think curating is the answer either. You can't easily distill quality content out of a sea of junk." These two sentiments seem contradictory to me. The fact that it's not easy to filter for quality is what makes curation valuable. I'm not sure if the dichotomy presented is correct, though. Really, all the old institutions like the ones you state, are in some sense curators. They curate news, fact, analysi…

Ok, but distill != filter. My experience is that no matter whether man or machine filters content it will not be as good as an expert sitting down authoring content.

Re: Where is the Web Going?

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Post by vannevar » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 4:51 AM UTC

I don't think Pinterest is an example of the curated web. It's 4chan for the scrapbooking crowd. None of the content seems intended to last as some sort of resource, it is essentially Facebook without anything but the photo-sharing. Like 4chan, it's a stream of experience where any meaning the content may have is transient.