Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference, and It Matters

Aggregation. Curation. Indexing. They’re all the same, aren’t they? Ask any serious online journalist or new media entrepreneur, and the answer will be quick and obvious: of course not! But in the public debate over the future of journalism–especially the debate as framed by legal analysts and public officials–the words often get thrown around as if they are identical. Ordinarily, such word quibbling would seem a little sad.

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