Comments on: Charging for content won’t save Rupert Murdoch http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bullmore's Ghost http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-34334 Bullmore's Ghost Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:17:15 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-34334 Murdoch enters his final stage of entropy? Murdoch enters his final stage of entropy?

]]> By: Geoffrey Ross Fawthrop http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33766 Geoffrey Ross Fawthrop Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:04:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33766 Murdoch's problem is the abysmal standard of what newscorp dares to call journalism. Murdoch’s problem is the abysmal standard of what newscorp dares to call journalism.

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33684 meski Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:03:46 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33684 Adsense isn't a high-bandwidth ad service, compared to most. I block the nastier ones, flash, etc, but tend to leave adsense alone. Noone uses bandwidth plans that would be impacted by it. Adsense isn’t a high-bandwidth ad service, compared to most. I block the nastier ones, flash, etc, but tend to leave adsense alone. Noone uses bandwidth plans that would be impacted by it.

]]> By: Mr Squid http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33639 Mr Squid Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:01:41 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33639 good point. but i pay to get a diversity of opinion. and it's arguable that the least of crikey's attraction is the actual crikey staff, apart from first dog. i like the blogs, obviously, and the rawness of it all. you don't get that from newscrap. you get a tired, dishonest, one-dimensional, dogmatic, badly written (have you ever read Greg Sheriden or Jane Fraser?) load of stuff that's straight out of a 1950s b-grade western. good point. but i pay to get a diversity of opinion. and it’s arguable that the least of crikey’s attraction is the actual crikey staff, apart from first dog. i like the blogs, obviously, and the rawness of it all.

you don’t get that from newscrap. you get a tired, dishonest, one-dimensional, dogmatic, badly written (have you ever read Greg Sheriden or Jane Fraser?) load of stuff that’s straight out of a 1950s b-grade western.

]]> By: MichaelT http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33638 MichaelT Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:00:44 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33638 BSE - Crikey can make it work so long as they keep publishing behind-the-scenes revelations that we don't find most other places. News Ltd papers are not sufficiently differentiated from other news sources that will remain free. If they start charging, I for one will just go to the nearest free equivalent. BSE - Crikey can make it work so long as they keep publishing behind-the-scenes revelations that we don’t find most other places. News Ltd papers are not sufficiently differentiated from other news sources that will remain free. If they start charging, I for one will just go to the nearest free equivalent.

]]> By: Liz45 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33635 Liz45 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:40:29 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33635 If people are stupid enough to part with their hard earned on crap & trash - serve them right! There's nothing about what Murdoch does, says or thinks that interests me in the slightest, and I'd say the same for everyone who works for him! Rupert, we're not that desperate - we have alternatives???? If people are stupid enough to part with their hard earned on crap & trash - serve them right! There’s nothing about what Murdoch does, says or thinks that interests me in the slightest, and I’d say the same for everyone who works for him! Rupert, we’re not that desperate - we have alternatives????

]]> By: bse http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33634 bse Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:37:16 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33634 Is this really any different from Crikey's paid subscription system? If Crikey can make money charging readers, why can't they? Is this really any different from Crikey’s paid subscription system? If Crikey can make money charging readers, why can’t they?

]]> By: Mr Squid http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33631 Mr Squid Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:57:03 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33631 newscrap and quality journalism? what? newscrap and quality journalism? what?

]]> By: Joe O'Connor http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33602 Joe O'Connor Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:46:13 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33602 Murdoch to charge for access - Fantastic, now if only he starts charging for Fox News, we could make the world a much better place Murdoch to charge for access -
Fantastic, now if only he starts charging for Fox News, we could make the world a much better place

]]> By: jeebus http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33592 jeebus Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:44:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33592 What a sensational, if unintentional, move by Mr Murdoch to quarantine News Corp and its miasma of shoddy journalism from the rest of the Internet (apologies to Mr Megalogenis). What a sensational, if unintentional, move by Mr Murdoch to quarantine News Corp and its miasma of shoddy journalism from the rest of the Internet (apologies to Mr Megalogenis).

]]> By: jose carreras http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33589 jose carreras Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:33:21 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33589 Meski, the problem with AdSense and most web ad serving programs is people like me who install AdBlock Plus on our computer and those of all our friends and relatives. Speeds up webpage loading, helps protect monthly ISP download limit and most importantly stops webpages being covered with bloody ads. Meski, the problem with AdSense and most web ad serving programs is people like me who install AdBlock Plus on our computer and those of all our friends and relatives. Speeds up webpage loading, helps protect monthly ISP download limit and most importantly stops webpages being covered with bloody ads.

]]> By: TheOtherMichaelT http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33580 TheOtherMichaelT Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:14:21 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33580 @MichaelT ah, i thought i'd seen my usual handle around, though i'm guessing you're the evil one with the moustache and goatee. @MichaelT ah, i thought i’d seen my usual handle around, though i’m guessing you’re the evil one with the moustache and goatee.

]]> By: Dan Buchler http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33579 Dan Buchler Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33579 I for one will not pay to read the Australian, or an other News Corp publication, although I will happily freeload (at libraries or coffee shops) to see what biased, unprincipled, amoral rubbish the Murdoch press is peddling. However, if News became more balanced in its coverage, took a more reasonable attitude to climate change and stopped its shock horror small mindedness approach to important issues, I just may reconsider. In the meantime Rupert and his stormtroopers can go jump! I for one will not pay to read the Australian, or an other News Corp publication, although I will happily freeload (at libraries or coffee shops) to see what biased, unprincipled, amoral rubbish the Murdoch press is peddling. However, if News became more balanced in its coverage, took a more reasonable attitude to climate change and stopped its shock horror small mindedness approach to important issues, I just may reconsider. In the meantime Rupert and his stormtroopers can go jump!

]]> By: MichaelT http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33578 MichaelT Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:08:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33578 People will only pay for specialist publications like this one. Looks like there are now two of us?! People will only pay for specialist publications like this one.

Looks like there are now two of us?!

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33563 meski Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:52:09 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33563 Rupert, if you want to charge for content, put AdSense on your pages. It's relatively easy on the eye, and will make you more than trying to charge the consumer. The Financial Review is the poster boy for how not to do it. Rupert, if you want to charge for content, put AdSense on your pages. It’s relatively easy on the eye, and will make you more than trying to charge the consumer. The Financial Review is the poster boy for how not to do it.

]]> By: Gavin Moodie http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33555 Gavin Moodie Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:34:04 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33555 Iwill beinterested to see how cleverly News Corp charges for its content. I used to have an account for the Fin Review's electronic conent but the service was very poor: I couldn't copy articles I wanted and they wiped out my balance every 12 months. I currently have an RSS feed for the Australian's higher education content; will I be able to tailor my electronic subscription similarly? Iwill beinterested to see how cleverly News Corp charges for its content. I used to have an account for the Fin Review’s electronic conent but the service was very poor: I couldn’t copy articles I wanted and they wiped out my balance every 12 months. I currently have an RSS feed for the Australian’s higher education content; will I be able to tailor my electronic subscription similarly?

]]> By: MichaelT http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33548 MichaelT Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:11:28 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/charging-for-content-wont-save-rupert-murdoch/#comment-33548 so on that fateful morning, when in type in www.news.com.au to get my latest Britney and Madonna news, and i am confronted by a login screen, am i going to: a) Whip out my credit card and immediately type it into my insecure IE browser at work whilst praising Rupert's genius. or b) type in www.smh.com.au tough decision so on that fateful morning, when in type in http://www.news.com.au to get my
latest Britney and Madonna news, and i am confronted by a login screen, am i going to:

a) Whip out my credit card and immediately type it into my insecure IE browser at work whilst praising Rupert’s genius.

or

b) type in http://www.smh.com.au

tough decision

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