Curation is not Aggregation!

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Posted by Tom Foremski - November 2, 2010 Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard.

There Is A Big Difference

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/11/aggregation_is.php
Two posts brought to my attention the discussion starting to take root about the worlds of content aggregation versus content curation. http://www.content-ment.com/2009/11/curation-versus-aggregation.html#.UVfYY9GI70M

Content Curation Vs Content Aggregation

The 21st Century Curator

If Web 1.0 was about online access and Web 2.0 is about social nets, Web 3.0 will be coring down to content that really matters. ~wrote Martin Smith in the post, Curation - The Next Web Revolution . http://idreflections.blogspot.com/2012/02/21st-century-curator.html