There is a lot of quality articles and blog posts from various content providers available online. By aggregating this online content you become a personal publisher who defines what topics or actual articles are the quality ones that you want to share with your readers.
Content curation can happen in many flavors and models, and actually the simple model is your daily Twitter RE-tweet activity. There are a few innovative services online that let the user curate his/her own news magazine. Most famous one currently is the cool Paper.li service that creates your very own daily magazine from the links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and Facebook.
Other kind of approach is personal content aggregator applications that are available to smartphones and tablets like iPad. Apps like Flipboad and Pulse can be configured to aggregate the most interesting content just for you from various sources like news portals, Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds.
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| iPad Flipboard App |
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| iPad Pulse App |
Great new example of Personal Publisher functionality is Microsoft Fuse Lab Montage service, that provides you possibility to publish a very own Curated Online Magazine. Montage is really simple and fun to configure and you can create cool looking online newspapers and magazines with it.
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| Ready Montage publication |
You can design your Montage Magazine around any topic or idea you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. For advanced user Montage also offers flexibility with several options to fine tune the structure and content of a magazine.
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| Montage content source selction |
This kind of a Personal Curated Publishing with content aggregation and curation features will become more and more popular in future. So definitely a future trend happening now.
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