In a course that I am taking right now, one of the videos talked about curating web content. The idea is that there is far more information coming in everyday from the web than we can possibly access and make sense of, let alone use. Given that as a baseline, there needs to be some means of controlling the quantity, type, and purpose of what we do have time to read and interact with.
I think we can all relate to this. We visit specific web sites and social networking sites for specific types of information. Sometimes the sheer quantity of information presented makes it difficult to sort through in order to find what we want specifically. As they say "there's and app for that". Here are some links to applications that might help with this web induces information overload.
Below are some links to several alternatives that I found this morning. I will be updating from this list and others in the coming days my experience with the best (at least for my purposes).
From the Apps in Education blog
http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-ipad-apps-for-web-curation.html
For a little more info on what specifically news aggregators are, have a look at the Wikipedia definition.
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