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As if the Huffington Post hasn’t already proved it, the evidence is clear on Y&H: Linking to other people’s blogs serves my own insatiable need for adoring readers, or readers of any kind really. I don’t know what my journalism profs would say about all this, but two out of the five top posts this week were aggregated from other sites. I think they used to call that laziness, if not outright theft, back in a day. Now it’s a business model.