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Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits. Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, aggregators put all of the Web's big headlines of the moment onto one page. There's no shortage in news aggregation. General news readers might go to Google News, a computer-generated engine that pulls in more than 25,000 newspaper websites and authoritative blogs. Left-leaning political consumers might visit the Huffington Post; right-leaning...

AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.

Old question renewed during BusinessWeek's Media Summit.

In 2007 the JISC national e-books observatory project was set up to undertake market research to help e-book publishers, aggregators, libraries and funding bodies understand the behaviours of e-book users and to assess the impact of free at-the-point of use course text e-books on traditional print sales to students

An interesting take on online content, algorithmically aggregated content, and user-generated content.

More about news media, but looks at how Google's aggregation practices interact with copyright and fair use.

The conditions in digital media, essential to just about any future growth for newspapers, are getting worse for papers.

Cohen: Google News Can Help Newspapers - 02/22/2010

CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news to the Web sites of larger media outlets." />

A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to ...

Could Hearst iPhone Apps Bring Backlash? - 03/15/2010