Remove aggregator work

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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? That is a powerful difference.

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Curation: Add Value and Pass It Along

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As Mathew Ingram wrote , opinion was sharply divided over whether Hill stole Duhigg’s story “in an attempt to get pageviews from someone else’s work” or whether she instead served a valuable function in highlighting and directing readers to his article. It’s simply the output of an aggregation serf.

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Shakespeare Was an Aggregating Social-Media Pirate

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His goal, rather, was to remind us that the Bard’s works were not simply the output of an individual, but the result of a collaboration with a crowd of other writers, actors, scholars, and editors. He was a master aggregator, one who would certainly be accused of plagiarism if he was a 21st-century artist.

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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. So you must point them to it by identifying and aggregating good content from other sites—even from competitive sites. 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. But containment doesn’t work on the Web. But if it succeeds, will it be due to great design, or inherently great stories?

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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Even if the Wall Street Journal reports a scoop behind its paywall, once that information comes out—quoted, linked, blogged, aggregated, remixed, and e-mailed all over—it’s no longer exclusive and rare.”. My working life is now completely consumed by content marketing. What Would Google Do? , by Jeff Jarvis. That’s your résumé now.”.

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Start-Up Briefing Media Ltd. Blends Old with New

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Thackray describes its method as combining “the latest technology and good old-fashioned market knowledge” to create a mix of aggregated, curated, and original content, organized by semantic algorithms and overseen by an editor. Similarly, I think they’re wise to match their curated third-party content with original work.

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