Comments on: The Aggravation Of ‘Over-Aggregation’: HuffPo Suspends Writer http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/11/419-the-aggravation-of-over-aggregation-huffpo-suspends-writer/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ted http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/11/419-the-aggravation-of-over-aggregation-huffpo-suspends-writer/#comment-84515 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:32:41 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/07/11/419-the-aggravation-of-over-aggregation-huffpo-suspends-writer/#comment-84515 Aggregation is a tool for plagarism, period.

1) Identify an aggregate that hits the story first.
2) Steal the “guts” of the story.
3) Find a secondary source with non-relevant content.
4) Report the secondary source as the SOURCE.
5) You get credit for covering the “guts” of the story.

Look at websites like http://www.fail5.com – a clean website harbored with links. 

Once you click on a link, you’re bombarded with advertisements. My point being, these “sources” need to clean up their act and stop being too greedy.

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