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A discipline as old as collecting itself— curation—is finding new relevance in an information-saturated world. A curator is “a person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc.,” according to my Random House Dictionary. Recently the term has come to apply to the discipline of filtering and organizing knowledge. That's because we humans face a problem our species has never confronted before: We have too much information. Our challenge has shifted from finding what we need to filtering out what we don't. Today, curation is nearly as important as creation. (Read Full Article)

This quote hit home:"...humans face a problem our species has never confronted before: We have too much information. Our challenge has shifted from finding what we need to filtering out what we don't. Today, curation is nearly as important as creation." (Read Full Article)