Is Scoop.it worth it?

I got my hands on a Scoop.it beta account and set up a few topics to be "curated" (as they word it).  I have a few questions though.

It appears to me that it is a little more robust in it's information from Paper.li, in that it pulls information sources from more than just Twitter.  It, in fact, allows you to pull from Google News, Blogs, Videos, Twitter, RSS Feeds, Youtube, Digg.

It also not only pulls from all these sources, but it also allows you as the curator to choose which of the items, it finds, to publish.  So in this respect more info is posted to your Scoop than your Paper, however there is more work involved for the curator.  Paper.li posts automatically and distributes via Twitter for you.

The fact that it uses the word CURATE on the dashboard of the manager of any particular Scoop I think is what gets to me.  Sure I'm curating relevant items for the day, however there does not appear to be any historical view for the topic.  So I'm confused by content curation.  I for some reason thought that curating meant collecting, sharing, and archiving.  I appear to be wrong.

I found this useful article "What is Content Curation? And how it’s useful to you and your network", by Michael Gass, that doesn't mention archiving at all, so I suppose it is not a part of curating.  Maybe I'm just wishfully thinking that by collecting and distributing that I am also tracking for later use.  Oh well.

I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on this topic.Do you want and need another resource to look at for content curation?



UPDATE....So I have just myself followed several topics in Scoop.it.  I then added the feed for the over all pages I follow to my Google Reader.  I also now am using Zite more often too read all these feeds.  So in fact, I suppose having another feed for info is fine.  One more place that collects the stuff I want to know about....great, bring it on.  I don't need sleep...I read.