ABOUT ARCHIVES CONTACT SUBSCRIBE TWITTER What’s the law around aggregating news online? So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience. Kimberley Isbell of our friends the Citizen Media Law Project has assembled a terrific white paper on the current state of the law surrounding aggregation — what courts have approved, what they havent, and where the (many) grey areas still remain. What is a news aggregator? 8 / 10:30 a.m. and Google News. MORE >>

Digital Marketing, Media, PR Analysis And Insight – The Future Buzz Adam Singer on media, marketing and PR Home About Speaking Archive Buzz Content Aggregation For Links, Traffic And Buzz 6 Comments | Leave a comment June 6, 2009 Posted by Adam Singer in Content Strategy , Digital Marketing and PR , Popular Share As the pace of content being added to the web increases, the value of aggregating the best of it goes up.  Due to the nature of social media, when you aggregate original material from around the web those content producers will get pinged.  MORE >>

Cliqset , the wildly innovative social networking aggregator that was among the first pioneers to adopt Pubsubhubbub for real-time updates, and Salmon for cross-network comment posting, faces a murky future with news today that the company's founders, Darren Bounds and Charlie Cauthen , are going to be leaving the company, following an unsuccessful round of funding. Tags: Friendfeed Facebook Cliqset Salmon Pubsubhubbub Aggregation Twitter A federated social Web agenda at Cliqset is something we chose to promote," he said. Darren agreed. It's fairly obvious in hindsight. MORE >>

Instead, successful media will become aggregators and editors of content, rather than creators. Online content aggregation is as old as the Internet itself, beginning with AOL. Technology to “scrape&# websites and republish content (legally or not) has also been around for some time, but until recently, doing content aggregation well required either a massive investment in infrastructure (like Moreover ) or a unworkable level of manual effort. New tools, however, are bringing sophisticated content aggregation and curation within reach of midsized enterprises. MORE >>

SocialMouths personal branding | social media | blog design Follow @socialmouths: Twitter Facebook RSS Home About Us What We Do Connect Aggregation or Content Hijacking Usually when other blogs post your content is a good thing, you increase your visibility, you get some extra traffic and depending on the blog, it could even be good for your search engine ranking. There is a fine line between aggregation and just hijacking content. does is aggregating content, what they consider interesting. Let's take Social Media Today for example, they aggregate full posts. MORE >>