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News Corp’s Murdoch to Google, No News for You

Jess Sloss — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:47:11 +0000

Oh no! Say it ain’t so!

According to the Inquistr “News Corp founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch has told an interview with Sky News Australia that News Corp will likely remove News Corp content from Google.”

Murdoch continued to accuse Google and other online properties of stealing content saying, “The people who simply pick up everything to run with, and steal our stories…they just take them..without payment. That’s Google, Microsoft, Ask.com..a whole lot of people.”

Murdoch on Paying for News

Rupert Murdoch thinks he can make enough revenue with a smaller readership paying subscription fees to make his plan work. If it weren’t for two things he said, I might believe him.

When asked why internet users will all of a sudden start paying money for what they have been receiving as free, Murdoch replied,

“They shouldn’t have been getting it free…we’ve been sleeping. It costs us a lot of money to put together and they’re very happy to pay for the newspaper, if they read it elsewhere they’ll have to pay.”

News for Rupert

Well I’ve got news for you, Mr. Murdoch. We don’t love to pay for your paper. Although we can appreciate the costs of running the organization, we feel that your economies of scale, and the costs associated with it, that were necessary 10 years ago, in many cases are a detriment in today’s media landscape. Lastly, we won’t have to pay, we’ll just go somewhere else.

The next Bill O’Reilly is jumping for joy!

I search “Rupert Murdoch” on Google News and got this. It means something….i just don’t know what.

to my friends who have the H1N1 Swine Flu

Jess Sloss — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:59:10 +0000

via imgrr.com

Get better soon…

That’s disgusting mom

Jess Sloss — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:53:34 +0000

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Oh man. That’s unfortunate, but he totally opened himself up to that one.

see what Google Knows About You. The Google Privacy Dashboard.

Jess Sloss — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:25:03 +0000

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Interesting stuff, check out your Google Privacy Dashboard

Mine showed me that I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time online.

Here’s $5 and 2 hrs to make as much money as you can. Go.

Jess Sloss — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:41:59 +0000

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This video was sent to me by @ddej and @kittenthebad, thanks!

Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, tells about a project she assigned to an entrepreneurship class. How much money could you make in 2 hours with $5 of seed funding?

The results were amazing and encouraging to those of us that like to overcome constraints.

Ben from the Instigator blog, highlights a handful of important lessons, here are my favorite:

1) There’s no substitute for doing something. That’s clear with the groups that had success. It’s not that they didn’t think about it, plan, brainstorm, etc. It’s their actions that were important. There were no business plans or slide presentations — just action, evaluation and reaction.

2) The teams that succeeded had a very strong sense of what was going on around them. It’s about having an awareness of your surroundings, to pick up on people’s needs, subtleties in the market that others might not recognize. It’s a good reminder that running straight ahead with your head down like a bull charging a red flag isn’t going to give you the perspective you need to succeed.

What a great project! I would have loved to do something like that when I was in university.

That sounds like a great exercise for classes everywhere. It’s a lesson that could help many different classes, especially ones where critical thought and a focus on doing.