Wed.Apr 13, 2011

B2B Memes

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Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful

B2B Memes

What is it about aggregation that riles so many journalists? I understand the competitive motives behind the objections of legacy publishers like Rupert Murdoch and the New York Times. They don’t like the idea of anyone “harvesting revenue that might otherwise be directed to the originators of the material,” as Times editor Bill Keller wrote. But why should individual writers, who have much to gain from the exposure aggregation can provide, find it offensive?

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Ariana Owes Me (and Maybe You) Big Bucks

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Time to pay up. I’ve never written for the Huffington Post , but I’ve given them something worth much more than words: my attention. So I think it’s only fair that Arianna hand over a reasonable chunk of the $315 million that AOL paid for her site. Sure, Jonathan Tasini and all those other cry babies who are suing her wrote a lot of great content for HuffPo.

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