SXSW 2010 Panel Picker - Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

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Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

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Organizer:

Jen Bekman, 20x200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc.

Description:

With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who's best-suited to determine what's best – curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.

Questions Answered:

What are the prevalent models for highlighting good content on the internet today?
What lessons can we learn from how traditional media identifies good content?
What tools/techniques are used to cull the best crowd-sourced content?
What qualifies someone to be a curator?
How has crowd-sourcing effected traditional ways of curating?
What are the biggest issues/failures when relying on the crowd to determine what's best? (Ditto for individual curators.)
Is crowd-sourcing truly the wisdom of the crowd, or is it largely influenced by opinionated/influential individuals?
Is most crowd-sourced material vetted by an expert/individual/"super user"?
How is crowd-sourcing influencing traditional media?
What are some examples of successfully curated crowd-sourced projects?

Panelists:

Jen Bekman, moderator (20x200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc.), Dustin Hostetler (dustinameryhostetler.com), Paddy Johnson (artfagcity.com), Nion McEvoy (Chronicle Books), Gina Trapani (ginatrapani.org)

Level:

Beginner

Category:

Content

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Event:

SXSW Interactive 2009

The projects Jen Bekman has produced in the art world have been cutting edge and creative, utilizing online presences as incredible marketing methods and public information forums.

The fact that I'm voting on this using an interactive panel picker to help contribute to 30% of the decision-making process, which will be combined with the staff and advisory board's 70% input, shows exactly why this topic matter is current and critical.

The web is the one medium that truly ignites a dialogue between the parties involved in the communication process, commercial interactions and decision making. The opportunity to explore the nuance of relationships through this dialogue will likely be the catalyst for better content, better response and better understanding of behavior as the web matures. This is a critical discussion that has so much weight to it and a myriad of possibilities.

Jen is not the only one bridging art, technology and the internet, but in terms of impact, she's definitely leading the pack.

This is something i ponder... pretty much constantly

front row seat for this one, please!

this panel is the one that might make me come to sxsw this year.

Projects like 20x200 stand to show that with a curator creativity can flourish.

The debate of curator vs crowd is becoming one of the biggest debates online, and in the art world.

Curating / tummeling / commmunity management ..whatever you call it it is *the* key skill and need that will rise to the top of leading any succesful project. And Jen is awesome at it.

Today's "community manager is tomorrow's CEO. In fact, Obama is running as the Conversation officer in chief in many ways.

front row seat for this one, please!

As time progresses, more and more websites will be using crowd sourcing to grow a strong user base

Its will be an interesting panel for certain, there is definitely some overlap here, or rather mountainous grey areas that will lend itself to some lively debate.

Can´t wait for this undoubtedly insightful pamel.

This will be an interesting debate, my gut feeling is that the crowd should be the judge, but hey that open for debate.

Will be interested to see the outcome.

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And curator and the crowd will always exist.

How can you curate and what gives you the right to do so? This is truly a tricky subject that I think would be impossible to give a definitive answer to.

Something i ponder...
Pretty much constantly, couse my essay topic about it.
Anyway, you help me!

Nice event, how about the result of it?

thanks

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Most of all questions here are being executed by the world largest search engine company, Google. They try to manage all online info. It seems like many people think they did well since the number of their users is increased every single day.

this is good, it will help me to do my research for my project

fine!

interesting articles.

Jen's site is nice, I like the design very much.

front row seat for this one, please!

I can't understand the panel concept

filters are so important. this makes it great. keep up the good work.

They try to manage all online info. It seems like many people think they did well since the number of their users is increased every single day.

The web leaves it wide open. I believe it should not be monitored.

nice staff - always lots to learn

Get me the front row!!

Interesting...

As time progresses, more and more websites will be using crowd sourcing to grow a strong user base

The internet is a great platform for several sources of information and its influence is widespread in every field.

Great questions, and useful project

Couldnt agree more - The debate of curator vs crowd is becoming one of the biggest debates online, and in the art world.

Today's "community manager is tomorrow's CEO. In fact, Obama is running as the Conversation officer in chief in many ways.

As time passes, the advent of high technology has remained unstoppable and has initiated wonderful and beneficial changes not just to technology itself but also to other aspects of business, marketing, promotion and sales -- and even the arts.

Can anything be better than that? This panel would surely be something to look forward to.

thanks for this!

Great questions, and useful project.

you raise some good points, keep up the good work

Everyone is going to have their own opinion regardless.

Some social networking sites have demonstrated that the best content on the Internet is user generated. Providing the platform for users to express themselves seems to be the most successful model to date.

Love it! Look forward to seeing this in the mix of options when I arrive in Austin!

For it or against we all have to capitulate to the speed it changeing are interaction with other. I tend to be for what is happening

Interesting comments but its not moving quickly for some of us

Both curators and the crowd jointly have a say and are both suited to dictate what is best.

With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial.

As long as we do not move to a big brother methodology

this is exactly what i was looking for and will help me in the future thanks

Love it! Look forward to seeing this in the mix of options when I arrive in Austin!

have to say, interesting comments here, really helpful, thanks!

Thanks, i love it!

10 points are very relative to reality because we should say that now a days many users use net but 50 - 60 % give not reliable content that's why search engine capability is going down .

Of course these points are really give rite picture of now a days internet condition . because unusual material makes search engine out of use .

I'm not sure I can take a stance on this position. It seems like our world culture is becoming more base and not more noble. The lower things that have always been shunned in the past are being heralded as "suppressed" and "natural". I hate to think what type of crazy things will happen if the public voice all of a sudden starts to think that pedophilia is natural and should not be suppressed. Seems ridiculous now, but all it takes is a 51% majority before the standards of tolerance begin to change.

Abstract— Previously, crowd simulation plays small part or probably ignored in virtual heritage.

This website theme is to create interest of the users , best questioning easy information source for deliver by the users and make best report for the ratio of interest of users weekly , yearly on the website.I think best one models internet now a days Zita .

it is very interesting articles.

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Abstract— Previously, crowd simulation plays small part or probably ignored in virtual heritage.

Here is an ironic post in that the absence of a real contribution by me is not being filtered

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