Edited sentence: (My memory might fail, but I don't recall a really big scoop on the site since a citizen blogger caught candidate Barack Obama dissing "bitter" blue-collar voters.9, 2011, about the Huffington Post's merger with AOL:.Bill Keller, the editor of the New York Times, wrote in a March 10, 2011 column published in the Times Magazine:.But too often it amounts to taking words written by other people, packaging them on your own Web site and harvesting revenue that might otherwise be directed to the originators of the material.Huffington Post now ranks as one of the 10 most popular news and information destinations in America.In Somalia this would be called piracy.In the mediasphere, it is a respected business model.It kind of describes what I do as an editor.Its 24.5 million unique monthly visitors come mostly not to read its original reporting.James Rainey, a media writer for the Los Angeles Times, wrote on Feb.Pioneering blogger and Web designer Jason Kottke tweeted, somewhat derisively it seemed, that the $315-million AOL deal announced Monday seemed to make Huffington Post's sale "the biggest exit ever for an SEO company.Regarding AOL's merger with the Huffington Post, Keller wrote: "Last month, when AOL bought The Huffington Post for $315 million, it was portrayed as a sign that AOL is moving into the business of creating stuff — what we used to call writing or reporting or journalism but we now call “content.The audience, instead, finds Huffington Post content mostly drawn from other sites, brilliantly chosen to reflect the whims of the moment and ingeniously posted (mastering the dark science known as search engine optimization, SEO) so that Google searchers arrive there first.The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.“Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one another into the bounty of the information universe.” Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter