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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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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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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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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Thanks for the post. A topic that deserves attention.
ReplyDeleteI have been trying out curated.by. Even though Quora is more of an Answer service, some times you find content links that blow your mind and would have taken you hours to research and find.
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Dead on. Many suppliers of information are broad in topic. People, however, have much more particular interests. That's why a magazines like Inc. and Popular Mechanics exist; we don't all want to read Time and get broad news!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is if you like mechanics, there are now 1000 places to get news on entrepreneurship or cool engineering. And many of the sources are great and how can we find all the sources and monitor everything they produce!
So you are exactly right! We need more curators to monitor our favorite niches and tell us who is writing the best stuff. Apps like Pulse do this to an extent, but I think they are still tending to cover big, mainstream writers and not all or even most great sources.