Stephen Downes

Any time I see a formula like this (and we just saw one from Next Gen News) I think of the old aggregate - remix - repurpose - feed forward methodology that I've often described as characteristic of connectivism. Not that this characterization was anything original either. It's what anyone - or any thing - in an information ecosystem does. This curation model from Mike Taylor is a little more focused on intention than most. Curation has to have an objective, a reason for being done. He also adds a bit of a toolkit for the curation process that is a bit more fill-in-the-box focused than I'd like. It's the difference between giving a piece of content a 1-5 rating, and writing something free-form (like I do) about the content.