Self-important aggregater Eater.com, on launching a national version of their website last week, offered a snarky, condescending and contentious offer to pay $25 to anyone willing to shut down their food blog (and post Eater’s take-down notice). Apparently they find the quantity of relevant content intimidating in some way. In their on words,

Part of the point of Eater National is to parse, aggregate and save you from the massive amount of noise generated by the digital food universe… Given that the internet is about 1,000,000 cutesy food blogs too vast, for a limited time only, Eater is offering $25 to any food blogger who will agree to shut his or her food blog down (and post this yellow notice on the site).

I hope you will join me in throwing these pompous wanna-bes the finger, and suggest that content aggregaters should be careful before they widely insult the content publishers upon whom they rely. Eater.com I delete you!