Instead, successful media will become aggregators and editors of content, rather than creators. Online content aggregation is as old as the Internet itself, beginning with AOL. Technology to “scrape&# websites and republish content (legally or not) has also been around for some time, but until recently, doing content aggregation well required either a massive investment in infrastructure (like Moreover ) or a unworkable level of manual effort. New tools, however, are bringing sophisticated content aggregation and curation within reach of midsized enterprises. MORE >>

Print this article | Read this article in: | Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation We are no longer just consumers of content , we have become curators of it too. In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what " real-time news curation " is all about, and more specifically why it differs from automatic aggregation, and why you really need a human being to do it. As I see it: " Aggregation is automated, curation is manual. Automated aggregation is not the solution. In fact, aggregation can equal aggravation. MORE >>

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer. They’ve aggregated the entire Internet into what’s cool and what’s not so cool. Somewhere down the line, an exploitation has to occur in order for a financial profit to be realized. The major “Web 2.0″ MORE >>

But one thing to note is that the web has changed quite a bit since I first started drooling over aggregators like FriendFeed and Google Buzz, and the shared items trackers that sparked to life in 2008 are universally dead. Now, instead of sharing 10 or so items a day to the anonymous group of people following me in Reader, I selectively share less often, and to more targeted circles in Google+ which I built by hand. And if the item is interesting to an even wider group, I share it to Public. In the last month, I've continued to crank through Reader, in the new interface. MORE >>

Digital Marketing, Media, PR Analysis And Insight – The Future Buzz Adam Singer on media, marketing and PR Home About Speaking Archive Buzz Content Aggregation For Links, Traffic And Buzz 6 Comments | Leave a comment June 6, 2009 Posted by Adam Singer in Content Strategy , Digital Marketing and PR , Popular Share As the pace of content being added to the web increases, the value of aggregating the best of it goes up.  Due to the nature of social media, when you aggregate original material from around the web those content producers will get pinged.  Perfect. MORE >>