Good in parts?

[Steve Hayes]

Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li


Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
it?

You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.

I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Harrison Hill]

I think it is rather good. Like you (I suspect) I first tried to
attach it to "cur'ate" in the sense of "assistant to parish priest",
but it is more likely "curat'or" - 'custodian of museum", which then
puns with "create" to make a rather jazzy new word.

[Snidely]

On Friday, Steve Hayes queried:

> Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
> Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
> it?
>
> You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
> send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
> I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

You select the pictures that will hang on the wall during each
exhibit's run.

/dps

--
Who, me? And what lacuna?

[John Holmes]

Steve Hayes wrote:
> Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
> Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time
> to do it?
>
> You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can
> curate and send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
> I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

I heard an interview once with a Canadian archbishop whose office kept
receiving unsolicited copies of a primate research newsletter because he was
listed as Primate of Canada. It might have been a joke by one of his
curates.

--
Regards
John
for mail: my initials plus a u e
at tpg dot com dot au

[Whiskers]

On 2012-09-08, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
> Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
> it?
>
> You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
> send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
> I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

You spend all your time working very hard to make sure that it never ever
changes at all, in any way. Sometimes you might let other people see it,
from the other side of a bullet-proof screen in a dimly lit room.

--
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:17:00 +0200, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net>
wrote:

>Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
>Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
>it?
>
>You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
>send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
>I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

You do what old-fashioned people would describe as "editing" it.


See sense 3 here:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/curate--2

curate 2
verb
[with object]

1. select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or
exhibition): both exhibitions are curated by the Centre’s director

2. select acts to perform at (a music festival): in past years the
festival has been curated by the likes of David Bowie

3. select, organize, and present (suitable content, typically for
online or computational use), using professional or expert
knowledge:
"people not only want to connect when using a network but they
also enjoy getting credit for sharing or curating information."

Origin:
late 19th century: back-formation from curator


--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Vinny Burgoo]

In alt.usage.english, Steve Hayes wrote:

>Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
>Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
>it?
>
>You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
>send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
>I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

This usage of 'curate' has escaped from artspeak, where it means 'select
or commission stuff that illustrates some sort of theme' - or, as
authentic artspeak has it, 'the curator is an active producer of
meaning'. For example, if you take a plaster cast of your buttocks, you
are an artist. If you get your friends to take plaster casts of their
buttocks, you are a curator.

--
VB

[Cheryl]

But people who prepare newsletters aren't treating them as museum
objects. It's a far more active pursuit, involving hunting down people
who promised to contribute or might be pressured to contribute.

I was trying to connect 'curate' to 'shepherd', particularly the kind of
shepherd who is trying to find the lost sheep to get it to market, but I
couldn't do it.

--
Cheryl

[Steve Hayes]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:00:14 -0230, Cheryl <cper...@mun.ca> wrote:

>But people who prepare newsletters aren't treating them as museum
>objects. It's a far more active pursuit, involving hunting down people
>who promised to contribute or might be pressured to contribute.

Yes, storing them under optimum conditions for archival preservation, but
that's not the impression I got from the web site.

[Mike L]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 14:44:43 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <ef5159b0-bc01-4b02...@fm12g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>

>We've had curated news on this side of the pond for awhile, usually in
>terms of applications that are 'not curated news'.
>
><http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=curated+news&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>

My third hit on that yielded:
<Curated News

A curation of high quality, high interest, real time 3rd party content
from news, blog, image and video sources. Our proprietary technology
dynamically scans thousands of online content sources, presenting the
most relevant articles as a news feed>

"Curation".

--
Mike.

[Mike L]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 14:50:44 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

Photocopies acceptable only if you're already famous.

--
Mike.

[Donna Richoux]

Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> Seen in the wild -- in an ad on paper.li
>
>
> Have you ever wanted to curate your own newsletter, but not have time to do
> it?
>
> You're invited to try CurateHub, a simple solution, where you can curate and
> send a newsletter in a matter of minutes.
>
> I'm wondering exactly how you "curate" a newsletter.

Has anyone suggested that it could be a mistake for "create"? We've seen
stranger substitutions. (Aquatinted/acquainted... prostitute/
prosciutto...)

Not that it answers the question, but my husband picked up the verb
"curate" from working in natural history museums. So in our house, at
least, to curate a pile of something means to deal with it: sort through
it, label it, put it away, and dispose of the dregs.

--
Best -- Donna Richoux