For whom the firewall tolls

August 10, 2009 in Media
Tags: content, firewall, free content, micropayments, paid content, pay-for, rupert murdoch

So, Rupert Murdoch is pushing ahead with his plan to erect firewalls and charge for all his online news content.
Good luck with that.
I actually have a huge respect for Murdoch as a newspaperman. He alone of the modern media tycoons seems to understand that the media isn’t just a set of spreadsheets, and that running [...]

Basking in the glow of the Moon

August 10, 2009 in Miscellany

Been ages since I’ve done a blog post, which is doubly annoying as I’ve been meaning to write a quick review/recommendation of the film “Moon” for a week now.
“Moon” is a fantastic low-budget science fiction movie which is unfortunately getting only a limited release. That’s because it’s a grown-up piece of film-making that isn’t going [...]

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August 7, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-08-07

BBC | The internet's conscientious objectors
As many as 17 million people in Britain aged over 15 are not using the internet, with non-users "becoming less and less likely to want to be engaging with technology such as the internet,"
(tags: internet bbc statistics research)

links for 2009-08-06

In-Depth Look at the 5% of Most Active Twitter
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