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Good story. I completely agree that all of this auto-curation will bury the eclectic collections and poison discovery.

That is one big reason I started my side project, curabase.com[1], to simply enable anyone to curate their own list of bookmarks. (Not a new idea, but it is MY idea based on this singlular thought -- that human curation will always be better, and NO. I don't have data to back it up :-)

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But human curation can be bought/influenced. So, in your system, influential curators could be influenced by advertisers to display certain links in their list of bookmarks?

sure. And good for them. The curator risks his own reputation by promoting sponsors with poor content, products, or services that are not relevant to the audience.

I don't mind advertising/marketing so long as it is relevant and timely.

That's assuming the payments were to include something in the list. Influence can also work the other way: take something off of a list.

yeah so what. that is the privilege of having power, you can exchange it for other forms of power.

And again, credibility is at stake. If I curate a list of awesome cloud providers, and IBM pays me to exclude AWS, then I look like an idiot.

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