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80% Won’t Pay For Online Content, The Other 20% Are Lying
8:40AM Ryan Tate | Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4000 people polled, 80 per cent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More »
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Old People Talking About The Internet: Rupert Murdoch Edition
3:47AM Ryan Tate | Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! More »
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MySpace’s Future: Online Slum For Depression Refugees
6:18AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science-fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More »
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Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan
8:54AM Ryan Tate | MySpace now says it is no longer competing with Facebook, the rival social network with far more users. No, now MySpace will focus on the niche of music and digital entertainment. And compete with Apple and Google. More »
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Is The Wall Street Journal Bleeding Cash?
3:31AM Ryan Tate | The Wall Street Journal uses an astounding 30 to 60 staffers to produce an underwhelming webcast knockoff of CNBC, says Business Insider. That sort of overstaffing would help explain the rumours that the newspaper is haemorrhaging money. More »
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Rupert Murdoch Thinks You’re A Philistine
7:13AM Ryan Tate | Rupert Murdoch (!) will end “the Philistine phase of the digital age,” with paid content.
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NY Post Fires Editor Who Hated Racist Cartoon
9:51AM Ryan Tate | Sandra Guzman was correct, if soft spoken. The New York Post editor publicly objected to an offensive cartoon in her newspaper. Her boss Rupert Murdoch objected too. But his henchmen just cast her out. More »
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Facebook Does Not Want To Get You Laid
5:23AM Ryan Tate | Facebook has long been the wet blanket of social networks. Its latest bucket of cold water: No more searching for people by relationship status. Because then you might conceivably get laid, and we can’t have that. More »
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Wall Street Journal Editor’s Newsroom Dig At Fox News
11:51AM Ryan Tate | The Wall Street Journal’s managing editor Robert Thomson is close to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, personally and professionally. But that doesn’t mean the Aussie is above somehow roughhouse ribbing of his corporate siblings. More »
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