We’ve talked for years about citizen journalism and self-publishing, but more important than the channels of distribution are the ways in which content and context are discoved via search engines and social recommendations, and the fact that theoretically this leads to any piece of content available online being indexable, findable and potentially popular. How curation changes our lives: I recently went down to the war museum at Duxford for the second time this year to celebrate a family event with my parents and my son. All totally normal. MORE >>

All of a sudden, “ curation ” is one of the hottest words in the Web 2.0 In the process, it’s creating some compelling new ways to derive value from content. Content curation is about filtering the stuff that people really need from out of all the noise around it. In the same way that museum curators choose which items from a collection to put on display, content curators select and publish information that’s of interest to a particular audience. The problem with curation is that it’s labor-intensive. world. MORE >>

Shareaholic, a content discovery and sharing tools vendor, yesterday announced Shareaholic Channels , a new way to find the most relevant, fresh content based on topic. Of the more than 200,000 publishers who use Shareaholic tools (such as social sharing buttons at the bottom of this post), the company selected the top 25 bloggers in each of the following seven categories to feature: • Food. With Channels, Shareaholic now joins the ranks of leading content curators like AllTop , Social Media Today , B2B Marketing Zone , Business2Community and Social Media Informer. MORE >>

and Browse My Stuff grabbing attention, and with people like Robin Good doing a series on Real-Time News Curation , and Ross Dawson tells us has curation has hit the tipping point , it seems like the concepts of curation, aggregation, filtering are suddenly a central conversation.  However, what has really changed here is first the explosion of content sources.  I had an interesting exchange with Robin around the question of what constitutes filtering and how that differs from curation.  Aggregation, Automated Filtering and Curation. Paper.li. MORE >>

This act of finding good content and sharing it is known as content curation. Contrast this with another nugget of conventional social media marketing wisdom: that “content is king” – that the best thing that a social media marketer can do is create content that people find valuable enough to share with the world. But…isn’t promoting your own content akin to talking about yourself? This creation-vs-curation paradox inspired me to look for some answers in the data. Which Works Best, Curation or Creation? It’s just awkward. MORE >>