“The real value wait­ing to be cre­ated in the stream-based web is pri­or­i­ti­za­tion. That’s part of what Clay Shirky is dri­ving at when he talks about algo­rith­mic author­ity and what Marissa Mayer talks about when she says news streams will be hyper­per­sonal. The oppor­tu­nity in news is not to try to mass-prioritize it for every­one at once – impos­si­ble! – but to help each of us do it. To make that work, it will have to be per­sonal and per­sonal will scale only if it’s algo­rith­mic and the algo­rithm will work only if we trust and value what it deliv­ers.… So imag­ine this future with­out pages and sites, this future that’s all built on process over prod­uct. If you’re what used to be a content-creation – if you’re Stephen Fry, post-media – you’re all about insin­u­at­ing your­self into that stream. If you’re about con­tent cura­tion – for­merly known as edit­ing – then you’re all about pri­or­i­tiz­ing streams for peo­ple; that’s how you add value now. ”

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