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The ethics of aggregation: Bert Archer

Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar. Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar. “If this sort of thing were done in a…

Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar.

Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar.

“If this sort of thing were done in a news story,” he writes, “it would be plagiarism.” There’s only one thing keeping it from being so cut-and-dry: “Romenesko wasn’t writing news stories.”

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And that, of course, is where it gets sticky. Head on over to the Toronto Standard for Archer’s take on ethical aggregating.