Current TV’s retrenchment shows the difficulty of grafting the freewheeling culture and sensibilities that have thrived over the Internet onto established mediums like television, where viewers often expect slickly produced programs and big-name personalities.

via Current TV to shift from video format — latimes.com.

It’s possible, however, that the Internet content idea was clever, even if the execution was terrible. [....] Yahoo’s new strategy hinges on a basic premise that many have figured out, but some still don’t get: The Internet demands a unique approach to content creation. You can’t just pick up a newspaper or television and plug it into an Ethernet jack.

via Tom Krazit, Yahoo betting on content biz revival | Relevant Results – CNET News.

“An individual content item on the web, without a package, has marginal value approaching zero — and attempting to charge for an individual item of content is unlikely to change that. What you CAN charge for is the package. Media companies need to be doing what Google is doing — experimenting with new ways to package content, which in a digital-media world means new UIs and new ways to aggregate.”

Scott Karp, Inside Word: For Media Companies, The ‘Package’ Is More Important Than The Contents | paidContent.

Even news-aggregator Web sites, like Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, promote themselves as cultural curators.

“The Daily Beast doesn’t aggregate,” Ms. Brown says in a statement on the site. “It sifts, sorts, and curates. We’re as much about what’s not there as what is.”

In fact, curatorship of photos culled from Flickr pages, or of knitted scarves on Etsy, can be an artistic pursuit in itself, said Virginia Postrel, a cultural critic and the author of “The Substance of Style.”

“Because there are more things to put together,” she said, “the juxtapositions become a big part of the interesting experience of those things. It is a creative activity in itself.”

The Word ‘Curate’ No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowd – NYTimes.com.