The 2 latest LikeMinds 2010 keynotes were very good indeed. Steve Moore talked about The Big Society, a topic close to our hearts here at Organic, and Andrew Dubber discussed curation in the music industry."Curating A Country" By Steve Moore
-There’s a huge amount of untapped creative, community-based resources in the UK.
-The Big Society Network is a platform that looks at bringing people together through the use of social technology and creative media.
-Leaders WANT to harness community energy.
-In the future, power will be transferred to local communities.
-Networking tools will be increasingly important in this localisation process.
-We want to use technology to bring groups together and stimulate entrepreneurship at a local level.
-Groups are the currency of the Big Society.
-The combination of economic, social, technological and democratic challenges mean we need to look at a new way of doing things.
-At the moment, the Big Society is a bit like the web: slightly messy but there IS a unified idea.
"Digital Curation: Creating Value by Making Meaning" by Andrew Dubber
-Curation is about choosing things, presenting them and making sense of them.
-Andrew’s advice for a band that wants to make it big? Be entrepreneurial.
-Curation is about making meaning.
-The way we think of the world comes from our media environment: new media changes who we are as human beings.
-There have been 5 major stages of media: oral, scribal, print (books), electronic (recordings/tv/radio) and digital.
-Each stage is very different from the last.
-When we archive music, we archive idealised recordings. Why? That’s just one aspect of what music is.
-For a project to record a live music event, Andrew gave everyone cameras and told them to record anything they found interesting. In a way, this was ‘un-curation’.
-Audiences could make their own stories out of the videos.
-The people who were doing the ‘musicing’ were the curators, there wasn’t an individual editor.
-Deleting Music: 95% is unreleased and rotting on magnetic tape in record company archives.
-We have no way of guessing what will be culturally meaningful in 100 years time
-Anti-curation argument: “it’s not up to me what’s interesting”
-People pay money for things that are made meaningful to them
-Side project: Curated by interesting people
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