aggregation

Down the aggregation rabbit hole

Thursday, April 10, 2014

This began as a link post pointing to Joel Achenbach’s Washington Post blog entry Journalism is aggregation. But, like more and more link posts lately, it got away from me and merged into its own article. Achenbach decides journalism is aggregation, and that’s okay. Or maybe he decides it’s not …

Aggregation is plagiarism

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Aggregation is plagiarismAggregation is plagiarism: I couldn’t help but aggregate (though not plagiarize) this link Jim Dalrymple aggregated to a post by a Mr. Joe Wilcox about how aggregation is, well, plagiarism. It’s true, now that you’ve read this you don’t need to read the original to know what …