Can we please stop this?
Journalistic summaries, focusing on certain aspects, are not, never have been and never will be fucking “blogspam”. This complaining is annoying.
call it "needless news aggregation and page view grabbing" then. on a site like hn, that acts as aggregator, one should always link the original source, not some third party piggybacking. those sites fight for page views, so the original creator should be rewarded.
Even if the content is different?! The focus and tone of the summary is completely different, you cannot substitute one with the other! That’s just crazy!
And Smithsonian's is likewise a journalistic retelling of
http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/publications/PreQ...
The pdf doesn't load, but the copy on archive.org works:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111004212938/http://repository....
The Atlantic article wasn't from a blog nor was it spam, but I do see that someone has changed both the title and link. Please stop your infantile, factually incorrect, holier-than-thou name calling, it impresses no one, certainly not me.
[1] http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/05/fact-of-ficti...