Jeff Jarvis non è tenero nei confronti delle mosse di Rupert Murdoch nei confronti di Google.
News Corp. leaving Google would be a mosquito bite on an elephant’s ass. It won’t affect Google or the audience. For there will always be – as Murdoch laments – free competitors: the BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corp, which he and his son complain about, not to mention the Guardian, the Telegraph, NPR, CBC, and any sensible news organization worldwide.
Ancora più duro Waffle (che, però, se la prende con Microsoft).
This is the kind of vintage Microsoft market strong-arming that makes me both sick and bewildered. Are they really this desperate to take over a market just because it involves money and there’s someone else in it with stature? Do they really think it’s okay, market-wise, to be a complete dick?
Intanto Condé Nast si affida ai guru di Obama per cercare di capire se e come fare pagare l'accesso ai propri siti internet.
Vogue has hired Blue State Digital to help analyze the Conde Nast publication’s audience as part of a broader, revenue-generating push that ultimately will involve implementing paid subscriptions on Vogue.com, said Tom Florio, publishing director for Vogue and several other Conde Nast magazines.
Buzzmachine, Waffle, Wall Street Journal (questo genere di link probabilmente mi toccherà cercarli su Bing)