From: Kevin Jackson <foamdino@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T13:47:16+09:00
Subject: Re: aggregated blogs on ruby:New site

>         Astroturf much? Sites like this seem a little shady to me. They
> aggregate blog posts but keep the user captive when they click thru
> to read a post. And there is no clear link to the original authors
> blog post.
>

Agreed, the link should be direct to the original content, not to a
screen-scraped version.  Less Is Better for example is missing part of
the content as the format of the aggregation site is different from
the original site.

I also feel it's a little bit dishonest to build a site that makes
money from other people's work

my 2d

Kev