Even Slate Editor David Plotz Thinks Aggregation Is "Important"

Slate editor David Plotz gave an in-depth interview to Sparksheet about how Slate manages to navigate its way through the seedy world of content farms, SEO, and aggregation, while remaining an “online magazine.”

We were intrigued by this, mostly because we are sort of curious as to what an “online magazine” really is, and what makes them better than mere websites or blogs. This is how Plotz defines them:

[T]here are magazines, such as Slate, that publish at a pace that makes them much more like daily newspapers, and there are websites like the Huffington Post, which occupy lots of different niches all at once…

Within that universe, Slate has certain distinguishing qualities that have to do with sensibility.

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