Curating the web: flipboard

Curation is one of those words that have morphed from having a layer of dust on them, barely used apart from in very dry academic sense, into a fashionable trend .  It is a recognition of the fact that in order to make sense of the avalanche of information we now have to deal with we need to be selective in the sources we pay attention to , and do some work to assemble them.  So it's a way of putting together information from your chosen feeds, social media, blogs etc into in attractive readable format, that at least on tablet devices often resembles a good old paper magazine! Having been inspired by James Clay's review of Flipboard (that had started purely as an iPad app) I put the free Flipboard app onto my humble old iPod touch, and was really impressed with the usability and visual quality it produces. I particularly like the errr... flip functionality! (You might also like to experiment with Scoop.it, that has pc and mobile apps)