Creator or Curator (or both)?

There is no in between space on the web. No one is on their way to somewhere or in between doing something. There are no breaks, no sighs, no pauses. No room for interruption, no negotiation for freely viewing a website (at least yet).

People search with purpose, for form or content, or perhaps most importantly, we search for community and conversations. With the proliferation of content online, a few create and some curate, assembling what they discover (sometimes this is done on an individual level, but mostly on a mass scale), and yet others repurpose/remix content and ideas, uniting several different elements, be it music, video, or words to form an entirely new experience.

I find all of this fascinating. Especially when it comes to advising brands on when to join, participate, create, listen or inspire - by giving people tools to create stuff on their own.

Here are a few examples of creators, curators and remixers.






BackThatThangUp -Vanessa Saba from Digitalia2009 on Vimeo.