Will News Corp. Pubs Be Pulled From Google News? News Corp. will likely pull all of its newspaper content from Google News once its switches from an ad-supported to a subscription-based model, according to Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch on Friday sat down with Sky News, of which News Corp. is a partial owner, to discuss … Continue reading “Will anyone miss News Corp.?”
Category: Internet
The Internet in a nut shell
More Popular than Jesus
(from an email discussion) Results 1 – 10 of about 194,000,000 for jesus Results 1 – 10 of about 76,000,000 for beatles So Jesus is more popular than the Beatles. But wait.. Results 1 – 10 of about 43,600,000 for “jesus christ” According to Google, the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Maybe John … Continue reading “More Popular than Jesus”
MySpace
“I was just over at Myspace. What a shitty, filthy neighborhood that has become. Street performers, hookers and runaways everywhere.” — Marc Maron (via Twitter)
Even when Microsoft tries to do good…
…they somehow manage to be at least a little bit evil. For example: Microsoft has put the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures online. Which is definitely a good thing. Unfortunately, Silverlight is required to access the content of this page. Which wouldn’t be so bad, but this page doesn’t work with Moonlight. Apparently, we … Continue reading “Even when Microsoft tries to do good…”
Flash Intro?
(via email) Should your website have a flash intro?
You Twit Face
In the year 3000, Youtube,Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace. — Conan O’Brien Someone has already registered: youtwitface.com youtwitface.net youtwitface.org Damn…
Classmates.com sucks!
Classmates.com sucks: $39/year to see content one can get for free on Facebook or MySpace Classmates.com periodically sends email informing one of new content that cannot be seen unless one is a paying customer Classmates.com has so many adds it puts MySpace to shame
Those Wacky Jesuits
Jesuits say take word of God to Second Life: ROME (Reuters) – Catholic missionaries have always trekked to dangerous parts of the Earth to spread the word of God — now they are being encouraged to go into the virtual realm of Second Life to save virtual souls. In an article in Rome-based Jesuit journal … Continue reading “Those Wacky Jesuits”
Movable Type is going open source
MovableType: 3 Years Too Late? I made the switch from Movable Type to WordPress a little over two years ago largely because WordPress is open source and MovableType was not at the time. If Movable Type had been open source from the beginning, it’s possible I’d still be using it.