Free the Curators — The Sadistic Side of Curation

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for curators.In a dimly lit room, with a locked door, we are thrown an iPhone and a quota. Review 100,000 stories today. 10% must be curated. You will not get your evening gruel or yard time if you don’t meet your quota.Writers, I thought it was an honor to be chosen as a curator. Little did I know it would result in months of isolation, second-guessing my decisions, and reading cruel opinions in Facebook groups Ev makes us spy on.If we want fancier food or a little more time in the yard, Ev makes us do his dirty work keeping his Twitter empire going. I mean, Ev, really? You need 2 empires? Do you have a 3rd one in the works?Are you trying to be Jeff Bezos? Because this Curation Jail thing is pretty damn evil.I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Curators are tired of 9 ways to Pick Your Nose and 23 Ways to Eat Dirt, but it’

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s so easy to skim through our 100,000 required reads and choose all the titles with numbers. Sometimes that gets me up to 7–9%.It’s rough on the inside and you’ve got to catch a break however you can. You literary writers? The ones who are truly creative? The modern day Maya Angelous and JD Salingers and James Baldwins and Toni Morrisons?We don’t read your stuff. It takes too long to interpret and process. We don’t have that kind of time.In closing, we are located at the bottom of Hill 1942, near the Bart exit in San Francisco. I can’t give you closer coordinates.If you’d come break us out of Curation Jail, we’d do our best to break this story with you. We’ll unionize and create fair standards for curators and writers. It’ll be a brave new world.Sincerely,Curators in Curator Jail</article></body>

Dear Writers, we have something to tell you

Dear Writers,

We are the curators and we have something to tell you. You may think curation is as clear as a glass of chocolate milk. You may be wondering why some writers get tons of curation and others fall by the wayside for months.

Well, don’t let this get out, but Ev Williams, has created a curation jail. It’s not for writers though — It’s for curators.

In a dimly lit room, with a locked door, we are thrown an iPhone and a quota. Review 100,000 stories today. 10% must be curated. You will not get your evening gruel or yard time if you don’t meet your quota.

Writers, I thought it was an honor to be chosen as a curator. Little did I know it would result in months of isolation, second-guessing my decisions, and reading cruel opinions in Facebook groups Ev makes us spy on.

If we want fancier food or a little more time in the yard, Ev makes us do his dirty work keeping his Twitter empire going. I mean, Ev, really? You need 2 empires? Do you have a 3rd one in the works?

Are you trying to be Jeff Bezos? Because this Curation Jail thing is pretty damn evil.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Curators are tired of 9 ways to Pick Your Nose and 23 Ways to Eat Dirt, but it’s so easy to skim through our 100,000 required reads and choose all the titles with numbers. Sometimes that gets me up to 7–9%.

It’s rough on the inside and you’ve got to catch a break however you can. You literary writers? The ones who are truly creative? The modern day Maya Angelous and JD Salingers and James Baldwins and Toni Morrisons?

We don’t read your stuff. It takes too long to interpret and process. We don’t have that kind of time.

In closing, we are located at the bottom of Hill 1942, near the Bart exit in San Francisco. I can’t give you closer coordinates.

If you’d come break us out of Curation Jail, we’d do our best to break this story with you. We’ll unionize and create fair standards for curators and writers. It’ll be a brave new world.

Sincerely,

Curators in Curator Jail

SATIRE

Free the Curators — The Sadistic Side of Curation

Dear Writers, we have something to tell you