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What does a site encouraging people to upload personalised eight track playlists, mixtape style, have in common with one that donates ten grains of rice to the UN for every question you get correct on a multiple choice quiz? They're all on Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2011.The ...

Gabe Rivera, founder of the excellent TechMeme is irked that the term "aggregator" is being misapplied especially within the context of the HuffPost event earlier this week: Adweek Slams HuffPost But What About Adweek Senior Editor Michael Wolff's Newser?.His argument is that the Huffington Post is not an aggregator, people ...

There is no doubt in my mind that the topic of curation and the Internet, is an important one and that it will be a dominant topic in 2011.Curation is important because we are reaching the limits of what can be achieved through algorithms and machines in organising and navigating ...