Martin Smith has made the most impassioned case for curation I’ve seen to date.  While most experts talk about the topic of curation in an almost clinical sense, this guy is… well, freakin’ excited about it!

“I’ve seen tornadoes roar up on dusty Texas plains. I’ve run from a black storm’s vengeance, furry and terror. No Texas tornado has anything over the content storm heading at each and every one of us.”

“Curation, the process of separating content wheat from chafe, will be the next web revolution.”

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“If Web 1.0 was about online access and Web 2.0 is about social nets Web 3.0 will be coring down to content that really matters.”

These quotes are from Marty’s blog “Scent Trail.”  I like this guy!  :)  Thanks to Robin Good for putting Marty on my radar.

 

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3 Responses to “Marty Smith Is On A Mission”

  1. Peter Lenkefi December 12, 2011 at 1:36 pm #

    This is my favorite quote from Marty: “We will curate our lives like the fine art every moment is and should be. Curation is the next web revolution” – way to go Marty!

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  2. Martin Smith February 4, 2012 at 10:55 pm #

    You guys make my day. In the office on a rainy Saturday and it is pitch black at 5:30 because winter has finally arrived in North Carolina and I stumbled on your nice note. Robin is my hero. How he can curate so much content in such a incredible way is to be envied, copied and understood.

    Yes I love to curate because it reminds me of my painting / collage days. I’m may be the world’s worst painter despite dreams of being the next Jackson Pollack in my youth. These days I satisfied my need to collage ideas with cool tools like Scoop.it, Hunch and Pinterest (soon if they ever let me in). I was looking for an old quote of mine and came up on your generous and nice note putting sun in an otherwise dark, wet day. Yes, btw, you know you are getting old when you have to use Google to remember what you said (lol).

    Robin and my pack of curator friends at Scoop.it inspired me to create a Content Curation Contest (to shamelessly shill for a moment). Getting great curators to share their ideas, links and profiles (Robin is in). Hope you will curate into our contest too, find it here: http://www.atlanticbt.com/contentcurationcontest ,

    Thanks for making my day. You guys ROCK having made this cancer survivor very happy on a cold winter day.

    Martin

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