The Future of News and the value of Curation (Short video interview with me)

Robin Good is one of Italy's most prolific bloggers and digital media experts. We met in Rome a few weeks ago, after I did a speaking gig for Siemens Media division, and he recorded this video, below. You can read the entire column (featuring 2 other influencers) on Robin's site; but here is the bottom line: 

"I think curation is key in aggregating people's voices, because most people have to go through 500 feeds of some sort of news event, and that would take them hours to go through the feeds and pick the right ones. A professional reporter can search the right feeds in five minutes, because they have the skills to select photos and those kinds of things; which is very valuable, but not if you put those feeds under a wrapper..."

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