Create Digital Music » Devices and Expression: Curation, Design. More critiques on Apple iPad as curating

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1. “Curated” has been one of my pet peeves for some time now, because it’s so often applied carelessly. “Cura” is care in Latin. In the art world, curation has real meaning, and “care” is most definitely involved. If you claim you’re a curator, then you better have put real spirit into selection, choice, limitation, and even care for the artistic expressions. Too often in music, we dilute that meaning – someone will throw a party, call a few friends to play, and say they “curated” the night. Now, analysts at Forrester have infamously used the term “curated” to describe the iPad. This has, predictably, led to a lot of self-congratulation in the pro-Apple camp and hair pulling in the anti-Apple camp. (Read Full Article)

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