The Curator's Code

If you agree, like I do, with ᔥDavid Carr of the NY Times, that "as custody of content becomes more tenuous, there’s a risk that we may end up passing around and putting topspin on fewer and fewer original works," then the idea of a curator's code seems like a good one; especially for students learning to sort-out and identify the range of bogus to authoritative stuff online.

The idea, according to Kerry Lauerman of Salon is, “Increasingly, when people go online, it’s like stepping through the looking glass,” he said. “Whether you follow a link from Twitter, an e-mail, or Pinterest, you wind up on a site where you really don’t know where you are. It would be nice if there was a way of signaling what the standards are and how trustworthy the information is.”