And we do have a way of marking posts so that they don’t get aggregated: like everything else, it may take a day or two to get into the habit.

One thing I overlooked in my post is I’m intrigued by the potential for the straight aggregation combined with the oversight of a living, breathing editor, who can pull threads together and add another voice to the conversation. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

And I think what they’re doing is a fantastic idea, and much needed. But at present it’s not impressive, it’s brain-dead, low-standards aggregation. To be useful it needs to be more choosy.

examples of hub posts that I don’t find at all useful:

1. decision-making bodies at public colleges are required to abide by the state’s open meetings and open records laws [so] students at public colleges in New York have the right to attend

and

2. guidelines from the Interactive Advertising Bureau on how long the ads can be before streaming video…

Do they provide you the capability to “opt out” specific posts? (if you’re sharing the new cure you discovered for toenail fungus, that sort of thing…) Blogs are typically somewhat scattered in subject matter; hubs shouldn’t be.