The first effective model for curating user generated constent in the web to point o era, was the link model. This is how the blog sphere worked during those early years of this content production revolution. It is a distributed curation method that is very human. It is based on human webs of trust that are augmented with digital technology. If sufficient people link to a new source of information, a new blog or a new web side in that website has sufficient aesthetic capital that it's trustworthy then that will enter into my web of trust.