This curation buzz is really an attempt to impose information management on a web that has more sources of information than anyone can possibly absorb, and to eliminate the annoyance of running into the same information more than once. In the end, it is a very entitled and irrational response to try and minimize the methods by which sites, blogs, and other people on the web share and remix the things they read, and clamp down on the development of new ideas based on or jumping off from old ones. It’s sad.

In the end, someone is saying “I’m tired of reading the same things on so many blogs. I wish I could just get the original story delivered directly to me without having to prune my personal information consumption to accomplish that. I’d rather make someone else do it for me, and while I’m at it I’ll eliminate the people who both derive from the original idea and improve upon it in one fell swoop–all for the sake of my own personal sanity, which I’d rather give someone else responsibility for.”

I can’t wait for this fad to pass.

So why do you think it’s the nature of the Internet that makes stealing ok? I think it’s people making choices.

You really need to understand that many hyperlinks are actually plaigerism.

Perhaps you don’t understand that the Internet is made by people.