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Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful

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What is it about aggregation that riles so many journalists? But why should individual writers, who have much to gain from the exposure aggregation can provide, find it offensive? But why should individual writers, who have much to gain from the exposure aggregation can provide, find it offensive?

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Shakespeare Was an Aggregating Social-Media Pirate

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He was a master aggregator, one who would certainly be accused of plagiarism if he was a 21st-century artist. ” A useful reminder, perhaps, that the best aggregators improve the things they borrow. But the accusation would be false. ” Shakespeare didn’t simply borrow, though: “Whatever he touched, he alchemized.

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Curation: Add Value and Pass It Along

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It’s simply the output of an aggregation serf. Related posts: Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful. The contrast between these two attempts at curation suggests to me a test that any writer should apply before blogging about another person’s story: Are you are genuinely engaged with it?

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Three Ways to Make Media More Personal

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So you must point them to it by identifying and aggregating good content from other sites—even from competitive sites. There are many ways to go about that, but here are three that should be at the top of every publisher’s list for consideration. Personalization means giving readers the information they want.

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The Future of Content Is Not Destination but Identity

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Founded by Joshua Topolsky and several other former Engadget staff, it’s been praised for its dynamic design and for features like StoryStream, which aggregates the site’s content into timelines. MUD day 8: There’s been a lot of excitement in the past week about the new Web publication The Verge.

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Reporter Failure, Editor Failure, or Tool Failure?

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Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful. The key is to use them all and to trust none. Related posts: Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley. Jesse Noyes: Brand Journalist or Brand Reporter?

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Journalism, Aggregation, and Doing Things with Words

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There has been a burst of blog posts today discussing the arguments for and against aggregation in journalism. And for the benefit of any accidental readers, aggregation , per the Nieman Journalism Lab , is “the practice of bringing together pieces of news and information from elsewhere on the web into a single news source.”).