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Agreed, well said.

Nah- that's how GenomeWeb works. They pick the coolest articles in the blogging community and then put them together in an email called "The Daily Scan" that goes to maybe 100,000 people. Maybe 50,000? Not sure but its a lot.

Holly had one of her LabSpaces articles picked up a while ago - I was excited for her. On my other blog site, we used to get picked all the time. Our views went up five to ten fold when it did. And colleagues from all over biotech would contact me to say they saw my article.

GenomeWeb just takes a portion of the article to draw in the readers and get them to click through. And they pick maybe only 5 of their favorite blogs to feature for the day. It's really cool to get picked up.  The editor really liked the article- that's why he or she chose it.

It's a good thing when GenomeWeb thinks your article is the best on the web.

They're not stealing- they're featuring.

They just take an excerpt and make it tantalizing enough to get people to click back to the actual article.

I am surprised you don't see an uptick. We always had huge # of visits when we got plugged. Maybe because it is Thanksgiving and most people are not checking their work email.

Their reach to the scientific community is huge- they can give the labspaces page the kind of exposure that twitter could never do. They will introduce LabSpaces to thousands of new people, including a huge number of marketing people that could be potential advertisers. Seriously.  My company would pay to get a mention on the Daily Scan but they don't work that way. You have to be picked.

You have to have an article that is interesting, insightful, funny, and original to get picked. With the abundance of science bloggers now, they can choose from so many so when they choose you, it means something.

Everyone in the industry gets the Daily Scan. Everyone.

LOL- No, I don't work for them.

Sorry, guys, I'm with Jade Ed on this. The 'journalistic integrity' bit would be vaiid if they didn't cite the source or linkback to GR's post. And copyright infringement only works if you actually claim copyright--which is why many bloggers have started adding Creative Commons copyright usage agreements on their pages. There are many bloggers who do this sort of thing (Drugmonkey comes to mind) to point people to interesting posts they've read.

Wait, are you mad that the post is mostly snippets of GR's with no commentary, or are you mad about the lifting of Dr Pelech's comment? Or both? I don't really see a problem with the former, as it's all linked and quoted and whatnot, and if what DS does is just direct people's attention to interesting things going on elsewhere in the blogosphere, then that's what they do. Like BB says, DrugMonkey does this all the time--I mean, he did it with my blog back when I was just starting out and frankly, I couldn't have been more thrilled.

I do agree that copy-pasting the whole comment right into the body of the post is a little weird. However, I highly doubt that it qualifies as copyright infringement, let alone justifies legal action.