Amy Gahran: "Do country-specific news aggregators still make sense if they only collect news from others, without adding any value? … Do you still use aggregators to get your news?"

"Can you imagine a content economy five or ten years from now that supports 2,000 versions of the same story? Is it any surprise that the company that creates far and away the most economic value on the web produces NO ORIGINAL CONTENT?"

Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.

Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.

"BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level o

Rafat Ali: "[AP] CEO Tom Curley …came out swinging against the very partners it syndicates a lot to: the online portals. His speech, posted online, is emblematic of the schizophrenic state of the news media industry: hope and despair all wrapped into a

"NYTimes.com has today launched a new version of its technology section, which includes more aggregation of news from around the Web."

"Imooty.eu, launched in August 2007, is a compendium of news stories from across Europe. By clicking on a map, readers can look at a particular country’s major and minor papers and blogs in English and local languages."

Scott Karp: "BusinessWeek, Anchorage Daily, Time and many other news organizations have wisely realized that if they want to remain a principal daily destination for their readers, they need to do more than publish their own original content."

Seamus McCauley yawns at Newer: "Vin Crosbie’s most recent manifesto… once more points out that the issue with online news is not at the presentation level but the content level. Lumping that content together in yet another new way".

Scott Karp: "The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own"

"MySpace is so large it could effectively operate as a self-contained sub-Internet, using its users daily writings to power a news aggregation tool"

"The stories will consist of a headline, one paragraph and a link to the full piece on the news site or blog where it originated. Sources will be selected on criteria including the number of links to them and how often the material is updated."