The newest report on various web curation tools.

Curation is currently one of "the chosen" buzz words in the social media zeitgeist (that's another). But as abundant as the talk of curation is, actual curation tools have been in relatively short order. In recent weeks, I've been experimenting with some newly released curation platforms.

This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now.

This journey from Atoms to Lifetools is becoming more real, with deeper thinking from Robert Scoble, and the impending launch of the ipad – we are about to experience a deluge of devices that can assist us in sourcing, organising and narrating these information atoms – in real time. The art of information chemistry is about to become a science?

If you've added data to the web, positive or negative, about a book, a movie, a restaurant, or an airline, then you've added your curatorial '2 cents' to the wisdom of the web.

On the Web, digital curators can help you sort through the deluge of video clips, news articles and links to unearth gems and obscure artifacts.

Content curation, or sharing relevant, thought-provoking online content, can establish individuals and companies as authorities, thought leaders.

Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online. Blog posts are written and published. Millions of tweets and other short messages are shared. To say there is a flood of content being created online now seems like a serious understatement. Until now, the interesting thing is that there are relatively few technologies or tools that have been adopted in a widespread way to manage this deluge.

Our information and entertainment options greatly outweigh the time we have to consume it. Even if one were to only focus on micro-niche interests and snack on bite-sized content, demand could never ever scale to match the supply. Content is a commodity. The Attention Crash is real and - make no mistake - it will deepen.

“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then he or she adds value to that molecule by passing comment” (Robert Scoble)…kind of like a narrative? -
Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Google Buzz

Seth Godin has an interesting post about the rise of drive by culture. He argues that the dramatic rise in content found online, and the incredible ease of

What is content curation and why is it so important for the future of web content publishers? The content curator is the next emerging disruptive role in the content creation and distribution chain. In a world submerged by a flood

Arianna Huffington, Michael Wolff, and Matt Drudge have already put "curation" to work. But will it save shrinking magazine and newspaper companies?

Before the music portion of the South By Southwest festival this year, Austin's convention center was filled to the beams with digital creatives. Among them was Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson, who told host Liane Hansen about his company's history and future.

The name I would give it is Content Curator. A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.

There’s been a lot of talk over the past few months (and really, years) about how content curation is the next wave of social media. The reasoning goes that with the massive rise in new information channels spewing a flood of content at consumers, we’re teetering in the midst of an attention crash of sorts.