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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 »
    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 »
    drunkexpatwriter: But.... unless I'm missing something, while the original links won't turn up on Google, any story of any real interest will be linked to by a host of ... more »
    marcsiry: This marks the day that "branding" was officially rebranded as "wanking." more »
    Shadowlayer: First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes... Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "... more »
    Shadowlayer: BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now more »
  • #terrydrayton

    Little League Thief Rewarded with Magazine Cover

    What happened to Terry Drayton, the tech CEO whose company allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from kids' sports clubs? Why, he's Seattle Business's new cover boy.
  • #terrydrayton

    Little Leaguers claim tech CEO stole sports-club cash

    In the world of startups, there's fraud — and then there's fraud. It's one thing for entrepreneurs to bilk venture capitalists with a sketchy PowerPoint. But using money meant to buy baseball bats and uniforms to fund your company? Despicable.