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Air America This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall in the same week. As Air America Radio pointed out, "It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog." Thanks Deborah B. Newspapers want search engines to pay Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users without compensating the publishers a cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which announced Tuesday that it intends to "challenge the exploitation of content" by the Googles and MSNs of the Web. This is big. Along with other traditional media generators the pay walls are being built and eventually the free access to established news etc. will disappear. Hmmmm, maybe they're cutting themselves off because they can't control the web. Look at what's happened to the NYTimes with OpEd columns behind paywalls. I don't read them or more importantly I don't link to them any more. I think this is a bad long term strategy but short term it will generate revenue. It's a downward spiral for traditional news. |
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