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by arafalov 3917 days ago
Curation is always the next step after explosion of content. Yahoo was curation of the whole internet. Then it got too hard. Now, we have enough content in tiny sub-niches to need curation on that level. I definitely see the need for curation of resources around the topic I am interested in (Apache Solr).

Unfortunately, I haven't seen a good software platform that actually allows to build a good curation site. Ones that exist want you to build the content for them. I want one I can run/own/brand on my own. I suspect there might be some in the library space though (haven't search _very_ hard yet).
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davidw 3917 days ago
> Unfortunately, I haven't seen a good software platform that actually allows to build a good curation site

Emacs and HTML work fine, and have been a pretty good solution for the last 20 years.

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arafalov 3916 days ago
If your time is free - sure. I prefer to outsource markup consistency, repetition of same content under different tags, and promoted items management to software.
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davidw 3916 days ago
There are about a zillion things out there that can do that.

Including Emacs, which you could use with a bit of elisp :-)

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arafalov 3912 days ago
Been there, done that (elisp included), don't think that's quite what I had in mind.

But thank you for persevering. :-)

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