"Content Curation": Whaaaa?

The blogosphere is abuzz with the newest upcoming prediction for web trends in 2010...

To get to the point.

A 'curator', as my friend dictionary.com defines it, is "the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc"...and in the case of the web as we see it today, a content curator, in a nut shell, cuts the crap.

With the advent and growing trend of web 2.0, we see millions of status updates, a bazillion tweets a second, thousands of videos being uploaded on to Youtube every second. The volume of information that is being thrown on the web user is out pacing our ability to consume it.
People are putting too much useless garbage on the net! (not that the net can't handle it)
With scarce time resources, users must find a way to find the most pertinent, useful, and perhaps even the most hilarious information they are seeking.

So how will a solution to this come about you ask?

Let me first define the term content curator more specifically, this time using the words of social media blogger Rohit Barhgava, "A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online."

Rohit, seems to believe this content curator will be a single person, however I'm putting my money on our algorithms and crowd sourcing techinques of digg and stumbleupon. And as expected, even google has it feet in its newest product google social search!