- Curated Collection of Mid-Century Furniture (nytimes.com)
Not the usual thing we post... but curation happens everywhere. Look at the apartment in this story. There's more stuff than you could imagine fitting in one apartment but, somehow, it works. This is the difference between just gathering and actually curating.
- Music Curation Video by PBS (vimeo.com)
Really good video on how music, music reviews, and music blogs are getting curated to help people find new artists and tracks.
- On Quora: where does content curation start? (quora.com)
Russel Wright says it starts "in the grey area."
- Content curation and the power of collective intelligence (studentslearn.wordpress.com)
Great _curated_ list of resources for teachers and librarians
- Winning The SEO Battle Through Content Curation (forbes.com)
The CEO of Curata's parent company, HiveFire, talks about content curation curation and SEO.
- Content curation is the future of SEO (lorcankinsella.com)
Talks about niche content curation and how it can be a great boost to your site's SEO, directly and indirectly.
- The Open and Shut Case for Content Curation (ebook) (curata.com)
A new curation ebook from Curata
- Content curation is one of 2012’s top ten emerging marketing trends (digitaljournal.com)
Also included: experiential marketing, unplugging, authenticity (being "real" is back in fashion)
- Robin Good, the “Curation Guru,” sharing curation tools (masternewmedia.org)
Robin Good has been doing this stuff for quite a while and seems to really understand a lot about this culture and where it's going. Here's his giant mind map of the tools out there to help with this task.
- The Best Infographics of 2011 (fastcodesign.com)
An awesome curated block of the best infographics ... some amazing ones here.
- How Storifying Occupy Wall Street Saved The News (readwriteweb.com)
Politics aside, a great write-up from Read Write Web on how the news of Occupy Wall Street was curated and disseminated.
- Beginners Guide to Content Curation (seanclark.com)
Covering all the bases! Looking to get started with curation? Sean Clark has a nice, succinct guide.
- Interview with Karen Dietz, owner of Just Story It (blog.scoop.it)
Karen Dietz talks about developing an editorial voice when curating. Ask: 1.Why do I like this article? Why am I selecting it? 2.What is in the article that is valuable for others to know? 3.Does this piece fit into my topic? What do I want to say about what I like?
- Curating the news (curationsoft.com)
A sample workflow process for curation of a news event (Google earnings)
- Huge Content Curation Guide from SEOMoz (seomoz.org)
I'm a big fan of everything that SEOMoz puts out and this one promises to be incredibly useful for the curation fanatics out there!
- Is Pinterest’s Push-Button + Boards Formula Really Going to ‘Change the Web’? (betabeat.com)
"It’s the social content curation, stupid." I guess but is that what Pinterest offers above all else? You can certainly do the same thing elsewhere. I think it's the pretty pictures... stupid.
- 3 Pillars of Content Curation (neilperkin.typepad.com)
I was worried this was another "what is content curation" posts but it's not. Neil talks about algorithmic, professional, and social curation. Good overview.
- The Curated Web (huffingtonpost.com)
Don't agree with everything ("Today, the Internet is, in fact, fairly well organized") but a good editorial. none-the-less.
- BBC Switches to Human-Edited Twitter Feeds (niemanlab.org)
"This week, the BBC has switched its @BBCNews Twitter feed to all-human curation."
- Silicon Valley Watch launches a new format using the WP-Drudge template (siliconvalleywatch.com)
Looking good!