Review: Brain Pickings

After listening to Flora Lichtman interview Maria Popova on npr, I decided to do a review of her website brain pickings. During the interview, she talked about the idea of being a curator, plagiarism, and her curator’s code, so I thought it would be interesting to review her website and see how she makes sure that artists get credit for their work. One article that I read, “How to Break Through Your Creative Block: Strategies from 90 of Today’s Most Exciting Creators”, is a great example of how she does this. Popova has a thought, question, or idea that is interesting to her and does research and writes an article about it. In this particular article, she talks about at least 9 authors/artists and their ideas for overcoming their creative block. While talking about them in her own writing, she links the reader to their personal page, links to amazon to buy their book/work, and links to other articles about them. Though she is a “hunter-gatherer” of information, she makes sure to link back to the original works and their authors throughout her posts.