News wires notice news aggregators
David Johnson August 29th, 2008
Reuters writer Robert MacMillan offers a list of news aggregator service sites that the LR faithful have all been using or keeping an eye on for quite a while now. I thought about not posting as it reminded me a little bit of Dr. Evil’s “I call it a ‘Laser’” scheme, but it does offer the opportunity to remind everyone in local land that you should be thinking on your local aggregation strategy… because someone else probably has already.
6 Comments Add your own
1. tdc | August 29th, 2008 at 8:14 am
yeah, dr. evil is a good analogy- ‘local land’ will stand by like a frickin’ mini me and not say a word.
2. tdc | August 29th, 2008 at 8:48 am
jezuschrist-
mc cain picks a 44 yr old mother of FIVE to be his running mate?
the over bred and nearly dead ticket!
3. Cory | August 29th, 2008 at 10:52 am
And that’s really a partial list.
The dirty secret of aggregators is when they use interstitial pages — you click on a story and it goes there first, then you need to click again to go to the original story — which are optimized to compete with the original story in organic search.
I call it “search hijacking” — the enemy of original content publishers.
4. Doug | August 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
TDC - what does your comment have to do with News aggregators?
5. tdc | August 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
actually, nothing.
i was just too damn lazy to sign in over @ huffpo and post it there.
someone probably already picked up on the gist of the joke and it’s well on its way to meme status!
baddah you?
6. tdc | August 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
speaking of news aggregators…
yahoo just had what amounted to two handjobs for mccain via ap wire copy and huffpo had a link provided in the comments section of one of their bloggers to a guy that actually LIVES IN WASILLA.
reading both leaves you wondering if they are talking about the same “overbred” 1/2 of that ticket.
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