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Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
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
  1. What are the prevalent models for highlighting good content on the internet today?
  2. What lessons can we learn from how traditional media identifies good content?
  3. What tools/techniques are used to cull the best crowd-sourced content?
  4. What qualifies someone to be a curator?
  5. How has crowd-sourcing effected traditional ways of curating?
  6. What are the biggest issues/failures when relying on the crowd to determine what's best? (Ditto for individual curators.)
  7. Is crowd-sourcing truly the wisdom of the crowd, or is it largely influenced by opinionated/influential individuals?
  8. Is most crowd-sourced material vetted by an expert/individual/"super user"?
  9. How is crowd-sourcing influencing traditional media?
  10. 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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