Aggregators

Why The New Republic is Wrong on Aggregation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Teitelman

An editorial in the New Republic resembles a plaintive cry that the Internet is taking us not to democratic heaven, but to democratic hell. I have some sympathy -- but with reservations.

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Journalism on the Internet: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Bott, Microsoft, Aggregators, Internet Journalism, Bullsh**Ters, Black Screen of Death, Zdnet, Media News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

At its best, aggregation is entertaining. Most of the time? It's gossip. And it's pretty much where the state of the art is going.

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