I’m a big believer in human curators. Algorithms alone do a terrible job of predicting what will be interesting to readers.

Instapaper founder Marco Arment at Studiomates lunch (via curiositycounts)

If you replace “readers” with “listeners”… it’s the same dynamic. Humans matter.

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Most definitely yes.

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Important note:  Human curators doesn’t necessarily mean additional human labor.  

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