A List Apart has a fantastic recent post on The Content Strategist as Digital Curator, which I highly recommend checking it out. The writer,  Erin Scime has some excellent points on how companies with deep content libraries need to dig deep to find meaningful ways to repurpose the content in new forms. The post also goes into strategies for how user-generated content needs to be standardized, with best being highlighted and the process of curating content you don’t own, i.e. the contemporary process of blogging.

It got me thinking about how the regular internet user is also a content curator. Every time we click a “like” or “share” button online, or add something to a tumblog or send it in an email, we are creating a digital record of online content we found interesting. Your history of consumption across sites and platforms is a continuously developing record of your own sensibility. In thinking about it, I wonder if anyone has developed a way to track every bit of content you’ve say, starred, liked, shared or read more than once, not as a marketing device, but as a way to actually give the user real insight into what they actually like. If it exists, please let me know about it. If it doesn’t well, if you decide to try to make it, we’d love to hear about it.