Let He Who Has Not Ever Aggregated Anything Cast The First Stone, OK?

Yesterday we picked up….er…curated….or possibly even aggregated a post by Ad Age writer Simon Dumenco in which he described how a Huffington Post writer had over-aggregated a piece of his and then been suspended. “We have zero tolerance for this sort of conduct. Given that, the writer of the offending post has been suspended indefinitely,” Huffington Post business editor Peter Goodman told Dumenco.

The reaction to this has been surprising to us…

“Writers, don’t steal other people’s content,” one reader Tweeted.

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