Correct. So most online blogs that "recap" news do the same correct? Would you agree then that Marco and Daring Fireball are spam as well? if not, please tell what is different?

(disclaimer, I work for a news agency) I would agree that anything that recaps a news article/press release without adding significant analysis would just be blogspam. By all means link to your blog if you're adding more than a paragraph of thought on the original subject, if not, link to the original article. But hey, HN is a democratic site, so y'know, whatevs.

Show me where Mr Gruber (Daring Fireball) simply quotes the entirety of an article rather than making a (short) comment about it, perhaps quoting an interesting paragraph or two and linking to the article in its original location?

DF certainly does not run the entire article. You may also want to re-read the dictionary definition of "recap" and understand the difference between "recap" and "republish."

What you are doing is on the same level as Huffington Post: quote the entire article so people come to your site, view the ads on your site, and never need to visit the source (though at least you link to the source unlike HP).

Seriously, think of techmeme as well... doing exactly the same - blogspam? http://www.techmeme.com/