One man's Curation is another man's junk

The Printing Press made as all Readers. Yet with the great deluge of books, how many have you read completely, following every nuance? Probably a handful.

The Web made us all writers, is a myth. Good Writing requires enormous attention. Robert Pirsig rented a place and used to write from 3 AM when he was working on 'Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance'.

Like Venky Ramakrishnan the Nobel Laurette says, "You cannot do Science, in order get the Nobel Prize. That is a route to failure and unhappiness". This principle applies to writing as well.

So, people blog for sometime and then they give up, once the initial enthusiasm wears away.

Clay Shirky is right about the fact that, we do all these activities, because of a cognitive surplus.

However, what we could do best, which is unique to each one of us, is the ability to curate digital information, from our own little window.

The videos that we watch in YouTube and the blog posts that we enjoy, the interesting web pages that we visited, we could curate it in Twitter, for instance. If we enjoy consuming and is authentic about our preferences, then pretty soon, one could have a good following in Twitter.

In a matter of few years, digital curation is poised to become a profession by itself. Even though, curation is subjective in that, 'one man's curation, is another man's junk', if we are authentic enough, we could have a Tribe for ourselves. You never get paid to Read, but you would certainly get paid to curate....and Authenticity is the name of the Game.