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Welcome to the Age of Curation

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/feeling-overwhelmed-welcome-the-age-of-curation/

Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps coined a phrase Friday for something many have been talking about since Apple launched the iPad about six weeks ago. “Curated computing” refers to the way Apple staff examines each piece of software written for iPhone OS devices before allowing it into (or blocking it from) the App Store. Epps is almost certainly not among the first 10,000 people on the planet to observe that the iPhone OS does not allow users to install whatever programs they wish, unless the devices are jailbroken .

Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King

Content used to be the high quality media that came out of the very pointed end of the funnel.

Content curation has drawn my interest. I was at a tech conference last week and saw a couple of pretty cool applications for curating content. Setting a side the debate of right or wrong, these new content curation tools will make their mark.

Is Content Curation the New Community Builder? | Social Media Explorer

http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/is-content-curation-the-new-community-builder/

The Information Overload Paradox

With 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the Google-owned video behemoth would be the second largest search engine were it standalone site. Web video has become a powerful medium.

Video Curation Is Growing Up, ShortForm Hits One Million Visitors | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/video-curation-is-growing-up-shortform-hits-one-million-visitors/

The Future of Media: Storify and the Curatorial Instinct: Tech News and Analysis «

The explosion of real-time information through social networks and information services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has produced a never-ending firehose of content.

http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/

Consuming News in the Age of Curation

There is a lot of noise online at the moment and finding good content is tough. We all have about 3 or 4 sites where we stop to reade news and entertainment every day but increasingly our media consumption is coming to us via curated sources like our own personal networks. There has been a huge shift from the old model where “gatekeepers” dictated what content we consumed and how we accessed it a new model in which curation plays the primary roll.

Can 'Curation' Save Media?

There is a trend evolving at media companies both big and small that promises to have a remarkably positive impact on what you read, watch, and share on the web: Curation. It's not a popular thing to say that things are okay in media.

http://scobleizer.posterous.com/the-new-billion-dollar-opportunity-real-time

The new billion-dollar opportunity: real-time-web curation - scobleizer's posterous

I've been playing all day with the new Threadsy, the new Seesmic desktop, the unreleased Brizzly, the new TweetDeck desktop, and the new PeopleBrowsr. "Oh, Scoble, you are being stupid again," I can just hear some of you saying.

By Owen McDonald, VP of Client Strategy, DCS

Content Curation Needs the Human Touch for Lead Generation

3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay

Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay.

A required Skill

Content summary: Neville and Shel are both traveling, but Shel’s solo this week with a contribution from Neville; two new interviews are up, one with Dachis Group CTO Erik Huddleston and the other with PulsePoint Group’s Michael Gale and Jacklyn Allgayer about the new study, “The Socially Engaged Enterprise;” another interview is coming later this week with Sara Folkerts of Sprint on the mobile company’s program to train employees to represent the organization in social channels; a new blog worth looking at is PR Examples ; Shel’s meeting with PRSA’s Keith Trivitt in New York; News That Fits: as access to information increases, trust is declining, yet CEOs who tweet are trusted more; Ragan promo; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report, including a look at the Melbourne Mandate from the Institute for Public Relations; are communicators ready to begin producing mobile content?