The Future of Curation

I’ve written about curation in the past. One of the keys to curation – one of the driving features to why curation matters – is discovery.  Curation drives discovery which drives more curation. The battle within curation today – and in the years to come – is how curation is done.  There are a variety of web services that empower the individual to become a curator. But machine curation will also play an important role.  Here are two recent techcrunch stories covering app discovery and content discovery. In both of these you can see how both machine and individual will play an important in curation and discovery.