Blog aggregator

A blog aggregators looks the least like a traditional news aggregator. Blog aggregators are websites that use third‐party content to create a blog about a given topic. The Gawker media sites are perhaps one of the best-known examples of blog aggregators, and also illustrate the different forms that the use of third‐party content can take on these site]s. One method of using [[third‐party content on blog aggregators is as raw material for blogger]‐written content, synthesizing information from a number of sources into a single story (occasionally, but not always, incorporating quotes from the original articles) and linking to the original content in the article, at the end, or both. Elsewhere, a post may consist of a two to three sentence summary of an article from a third‐party source, with a link to the original article. Yet other posts are composed of short excerpts or summaries from a number of articles strung together, all with links back to the original articles.

Source
Kimberley Isbell & the Citizen Media Law Project, "The Rise of the News Aggregator: Legal Implications and Best Practices" 2 (2010).