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Wolff vs. Waxman, Round 2. Rubber Match on CNN Sunday.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2010 at 8:52 am PT

It took a little longer than I expected, but Michael Wolff has indeed penned a column insulting The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman, who sent his Newser site a cease and desist notice last night. And if you don’t want to read about this but still want to see a fight, you’re in luck.

Waxman to Wolff: Unhand My Content!

Peter Kafka in Media on April 7, 2010 at 3:41 pm PT

More shots fired in the great Web aggregation war. Or at least in the war between Sharon Waxman and Michael Wolff: The Wrap, the Hollywood news site Waxman runs, has demanded that Newser, the aggregation site Wolff founded, give her site better credit for its stories or stop using them altogether.

Hearst Launches Aggregator Site LMK

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 9, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

Hearst today launched LMK.com, a low-cost Web roundup on topics from college football to reality television. (For the youth-challenged, “LMK” is the texting shorthand for “let me know.”) LMK joins a crowded field of aggregation sites, which cull news and information from across the Web and organize them by topic or in other user-friendly ways. Other aggregators include Topix, Newser and Daylife, and sites like the Daily Beast that combine aggregation with their own content.

The New York Times Slaps Another Web Wrist

Peter Kafka in Media on March 19, 2009 at 3:35 pm PT

Just in case any of you Web publishers haven’t picked up on it yet: The New York Times would like you to stop using the stuff it pays to produce. The latest example: The paper has asked design blog Apartment Therapy to unpublish all the Times’s photos it has run so far this year.

New York Times to the Web: Careful With Our Copy!

Peter Kafka in Media on March 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm PT

The New York Times says Web publishers are increasingly worried about aggregators who hoover up their stories. I can think of one publisher who has been acting that way–the New York Times.

New York Times to the Web: Hands Off Our “T”!

Peter Kafka in Media on February 25, 2009 at 11:27 am PT

The New York Times is justifiably proud of the work its staff publishes on its flagship Web site every day. It’s also very proud of the first letter of its name. That seems to be the lesson in a flap between the paper and Newser, an aggregation site whose motto is “Read Less, Know More.” The Times says it is happy to let Newser link to its stories–but not to use its “T” logo.