When did "saving", "customizing" or "maintaining" stuff become "curating"?
What triggered this mini-rant was the New London Day's website, which tells users to "look at the bottom of your browser window for a new version of [the 'of interest'] feature, which allows you to customize and curate stories based on your preferences."
So remember kiddies, you don't fix up your old heap of a car, you "curate" it.
You're not a stamp collector, you're a "postage curator".
You're not a "hoarder", you're an "insatiable curator".
Can we find a cure for this overuse of "curate"? Maybe the forced administration of a little curare?
(And get offa my lawn, while yer at it.)
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Look up "curate's egg". Appropriate, no?
;-)
We all have our own take on the thing, but I must self-centeredly pat myself on the back and say, "Been there, done that."
http://thenewyorkcrank.blogspot.com/2013/11/curate-this-you-unsustainably-scaleable.html
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