Curation Tools: Improving the Web for you and others

The word "curation" is used a lot these days to designate things that were hand-picked or personally chosen. In regard to our use of the Web, it means something slightly different. It's about managing the information flow: bringing to oneself the information one needs and filtering out the noise is one meaning, and -- at least in the olden days of the Web -- it also means finding and sharing information you know to be accurate and useful. The first meaning is a means of personal information management. The second meaning is about improving the information commons at little or no additional effort or cost to yourself. Seven years ago, I wrote about the practices of "Annotation, Curation, Social Bookmarking." For example, here are my shared bookmarks -- a collection of sites that I found useful and legitimate for myself and others -- about "community."

The brief video above is my interview with a curation expert who is also a tools expert. He wrote about the relevance of our interview here. Although the interview is old, Robin Good continues to curate and explain information and curation tools. Here is his current list of useful curation tools. You can subscribe to his Substack here.

Hello, from sunny Koh Samui. In this issue I have put together an up-to-date selection of useful - albeit less popular - tools for discovering, filtering, capturing, organizing and presenting information artefacts, tools and resources. That is tools for curators. Many are free or have a free plan.

While the key curator assets are his personal experience, taste and questioning abilities, digital tools can prove to be of great assistance and complement to these essential skills.

My selection criteria favour, in many cases, the lesser known, newer kids on the block and the ones that are free or offer a generous free plan.

Thus this is not a comprehensive catalog of curation tools, but only a selection of what curation-related tools I would recommend to anyone - new to curation - asking for advice in this direction.