A NOTE ABOUT SOURCES

Just as the world of media, content, brands, and the Web is rapidly changing, so is the nature of the book itself. In preparing to research and report Curation Nation, I made a list of all the subjects who I thought would have useful perspectives. Happily, almost all of them agreed to be interviewed for this project. Many of those interviews were conducted in person, and rather than take notes, the conversations were recorded and then transcribed. The rest of the interviews were conducted via Skype, and those too were transcribed. In both cases the transcriptions were turned around almost magically by a team of online workers known as Turkers, who are members of an Amazon service called Mechanical Turk. I talk more about ...

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