This follows a pretty well established format for Kottke. He usually extracts a "hook" from the content he posts. It gives you some idea of what's contained the

This follows a pretty well established format for Kottke. He usually extracts a "hook" from the content he posts. It gives you some idea of what's contained therein, which is often not present at the source. I hate wasting 2-3 minutes watching a video when a simple excerpt could have shown me that it's not in my wheelhouse. Another nice thing about Kottke's site is that he frequently posts updates to previous entries. It's likely that with popularity, more information will be uncovered about the subject matter. Jason posts "digests" with summaries of updates to previous entries, which often contain useful insight you wouldn't gain without allocating a not insignificant amount of attention to this single piece of media. Yes, it has "some ads", but please, let's try to be rational about this. Since when are we waging war against anyone displaying advertising anywhere? The amount of advertising on his site seems more than reasonable to me. I feel a little more inclined to stick up for Jason because I've been following him for so long. He was literally one of the first blogs I ever followed, and I have learned to trust him over the years. I love the fact that he's able to do what he does full time, because I get the benefit of his curation. I absolutely get where you're coming from. I hate when someone posts a link to content that is obviously re-hashed from somewhere else with no additional value, but if you spend some time with Kottke.org, I think you'll see that there are good guys and there are bad guys in this scene. Jason is one of the good guys.