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more about #valleywag more comments → PontiusPirate: Never trust a guy who has an aspiring male model on the payroll whose sole job is to troll blogs and post cut & paste comments about how awesome he (P... more » cmd: Mmmm. Always love an Intern Neel update. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto more » insidefb: I consider Mark a friend but he has lied to me on more than one occasion. more » Benny: Never heard of this guy, but this article has my agenda radar going berserk. His comments about that class hardly show him to be cynical about ethics... more » Bos'un's Mate: Pogue is a very good technology critic and observer, but a visionary? No. #davidpogue more » forwardmotion: In his defense: most graduate seminars in whatever subject that last 1-4 weeks are generally bullshit. #markpincus more » heartbreakturnip: In order: "Help me Howard" "Help me God" "Help me grow" "Help me Rhonda" #google more » heartbreakturnip: Many of these sound like the questions of lazy term paper writers. #google more » TheCaliDude: Try "Will she" and "Will he" for sad results. #google more » shostakobitch: Couldn't agree with you more. Another example of this is nuclear weapons. Sure a bunch of hippies thought they might "explode" and kill us all but n... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: When can we have the chip implant to put bright shiny images directly into our brains? And jetpacks? #television more » Claire Buoyant: I wonder if this is of any semantic significance: alter the "is it wrong/ethical" qeustion to "is it OK/okay", then Google reveals a bunch of suggesti... more » lostarchitect: The worst thing about this might be the Sesame Street characters tacitly approving these searches. #google more » Steverino Begins: In the future we'll not only be able to see who wrote these, but we'll then be able to click to watch a video of what happened to those people after t... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Bing does this too. #google more » -
#mediawars
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More » -
#theolds
Old People Talking About the Internet: Rupert Murdoch Edition
Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
It's hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More » -
#unlikelysaviors
Rupert Murdoch (!) will end "the Philistine phase of the digital age," with paid content.
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#moguls
MySpace Is For 'Stalking,' Says Owner of MySpace
Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a "personal antipathy to the Internet," biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More » -
#printisdead
Rupert Murdoch, Gang Leader
OK, maybe Rupert Murdoch really is serious about charging for online newspaper content, after all: The News Corporation chairman has reportedly dispatched his lieutenant to form some kind of newspaper pay-wall gang. More » -
#conspiracytheories
We Think Rupert Murdoch's Bluffing on His Pay-Wall Pledge
Rupert Murdoch promises his News Corp. publications will charge for content by next year. Steven Brill swears he has hundreds of newspapers signed up to do likewise. Who wants to be the first to follow these sharks into the pool? More » -
#moguls
You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
Rupert Murdoch announced plans yesterday to charge for online access to all of News Corp's media properties. Coincidentally, the company posted a $203 million loss for its fourth quarter, down from a profit of $1.1 billion from the same period last year. More » -
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#wtf
WSJ Conference Opens with a Serenade to Rupert Murdoch
We'll admit, there were some funny lines in this serenade to Rupert Murdoch at the Wall Street Journal's "D" event. But isn't buttering up the boss at the absolute beginning of your tech conference a little blatant? More » -
#exits
Friendship with Boss's Wife Can't Save MySpace CEO
Sucking up to the CEO's wife is usually a wise move. But did it doom MySpace chief Chris DeWolfe? More » -
#mediawars
Outrage: WSJ In Blog Duplicity Scandal
As any political campaign manager knows, sanctimonious attacks only invite a more outraged rebuttal. The Wall Street Journal's Google-slamming editor just learned how quickly anger boomerangs online. More » -
#newscorp
News Corp. baron Rupert Murdoch has Kindle envy, wants his own e-book reader.
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#rumormonger
News Corp's Internet Wunderkind May Be on the Outs
Former AOL CEO Jon Miller hasn't officially joined News Corp. yet, but we hear that Jeremy Philips, the 36-year-old executive vice president in charge of Internet strategy, is panicked at the prospect of his hire. More » -
#hires
AOL Outcast Jon Miller to Join News Corp.'s Soap Opera in Progress
Rupert Murdoch's media empire continues its turmoil after the announcement of COO Peter Chernin's departure. The newest player: Former AOL CEO Jon Miller, who's widely expected to take the top digital job there. More » -
#twitterati
Cheating Media Moguls Across the Twittersphere
For the media, Twitter is the new confessional. Xeni Jardin admitted to watching an illicit movie, Peter Kafka overcharged his boss, and Jeff Jarvis admitted to being an all-around fraud. Today's crimes against Twitter: More » -
#myspace
Wendi Deng Murdoch's MySpace Problem
A tipster tells us Wendi Deng dropped by MySpace headquarters with a friend on Friday. What is Mrs. Rupert Murdoch up to at the News Corp.-owned social network? More » -
#businessmedia
"Wall Street" Part of Wall Street Journal Increasingly Meaningless
Robert Thomson, the wily Aussie installed by Rupert Murdoch as editor of the Wall Street Journal, wants his newspaper to be big in Japan. And Europe. And Chicago. And Los Angeles.
