UPDATE: Now apologize for the solution, dude.

My pal Simon Dumenco took on HuffingtonPost for its aggressive aggregation—paraphrasing his entire article with an unappealing, and demonstrably unsuccessful, link at the end—and won: HuffPo flatly accepted the criticism and suspended the writer behind the post.

It's an interesting topic. I do my best not to include too much and to try to drive people to the articles I'm aggregating, and of course I also do lots of 100% original stuff—"Guydar," play reviews, pop-culture essays. But it's a fine line, and many blogs get too far into it.

Other blogger friends know how great it feels to be linked by a major blog—and how disappointing when the link is small and the guts of your piece (or "your" piece if it's just a matter of you having found something of someone else's and blogged it "first") are entirely used up on the other site.