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    Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more »
    Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more »
    Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more »
    Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more »
    sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more »
    Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more »
    Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more »
    manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more »
    If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more »
    SanFranLefty: Publisher of our local fish wrap/Sharon Stone's ex piles on Mayor McDreamy and his demands to dictate all press interviews: [www.sfgate.com] more »
    Spirit Fingers: This is unfortunate. And despite the knowledge and truth that most of us wouldn't necessarily see anything wrong with a lone 13 year old riding the su... more »
    Aatom: "if people want to enjoy a fundamental baseline of serious news media in this country, they will have to pay for it, somehow." I agree with this, but... more »
    sanyucat: The time or two I have attempted to provide assistance to children in NYC, I have been greeted by indifference at best. Including the time I saved a ... more »
    VoxPopuli: I'm about to hop on the train to go to work. Please, no one say hi to me. Strangers who talk to me on the train, other than to get directions, kind of... more »
    mladen: And did he ever return? No he never returned And his fate is still unlearned, He may ride forever 'Neath the streets of.... uh.... oh.... Fuck Boston. more »
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    Is the Asperger's Gambit today's Twinkie Defense?