Mary Meeker is predicting that the amount of content and data online will double in 2014.  This has profound implications on how we consume this data, and places a greater urgency and need for curation of that content.  In this article, Raj De Datta lays out 6 trends for the coming year, and among them is the growing need for combing through all of the data that is online:

Search marketers can expect to process a tsunami of information. The rate of data creation is accelerating as it becomes simpler for businesses and consumers to create, publish, curate, and share data.

Search Engine Watch talks about link building strategies arising in 2013.  Among them is the curation, not of just content and blogs, but of guest bloggers who can contribute on your own branded property:

Another form of curation is developing here. Not just the curation of credible blogs, but the curation of credible guest bloggers. Selectivity is crucial to success.

Search Engine Watch talks about how Google's recent Panda and Penguin updates have not down much to improve the quality of results on the search engine. On the other hand;e rival emerging search engines like Blekko have attempted a crowd curation approach, but's its not clear if that can scale:

Other search engines like Blekko have taken a different route and have tried to crowdsource content curation. While this works well in a variety of niches, the big problem with Blekko is that this content curation is not too “mainstream” putting the burden of the algorithm on the shoulders of its own users.

How do SEO and Content Marketing meet and mingle? Where is the line? How does an integrated approach rank? This blog post sheds some light.

Content marketing is a huge, vitally important part of company and marketing strategy. But if you’re considering content marketing as an alternative to SEO, you must first understand integrated marketing across search, digital, and offline channels.

Stats on how brands are using Instagram more for content marketing and then curating that content for social media dissemination:

Curate a set of brand visuals instead of using the tired old stock images or build up images to share on other social networks

Over the last few years the digital marketing landscape has changed. The search engines and major social media channels are rapidly evolving. The data that search engines are now able to extract from link profiles and social signals mean that reputation and influence is now fundamental to digital marketing success.

What is the difference between content creators and curators? Further, who are the people behind the rise of photos and videos as social currency? Pew Internet set out to answer these questions in a recent project.

Here’s are some useful apps that mobile content curators on iPhones or iPads.

"Writing for SEO" can be done well, or horribly. But one bit of advice frequently offered to content curators and content marketers is to use popular keywords to design new bits of content. Here are some places anybody can go to conduct research on trending keywords.

There are hundreds of ways to build links the wrong way, and just as many ways to do it right. Your goal should be to be able to survive and thrive with or without Google. Never forget the quality, intent and relevancy of the link building process.