A recent article published by the Nieman Journalism Lab (a group at Harvard billing itself as “an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age”) bemoaned today’s challenge of “informational abundance.”1 To employers and attorneys who try mightily to understand and comply with rapidly evolving state and federal immigration-compliance obligations, the proliferation of immigration data is likewise an all too familiar problem.
The writer of the Nieman piece, Maria Popova, maintains that the solution lies in content “curation,” a buzzword borrowed from the art world, that she considers a new form of authorship. “Curation,” she suggests, is the best “semantic placeholder” to describe the social media application, Twitter, and its raison d’être. What Twitter and other forms of social media accomplish, Ms. Popova asserts, is to serve as a “conduit of discovery and direction for what is meaningful, interesting and relevant in the world.” Content curation, then, is an attempt to filter and make sense of the digital world—an even more daunting challenge than trying to sip water from a gushing fireplug.
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