News Corp is endangering journalism

Linking to public internet sites is right for democracy and journalism and News Corporation is wrong to impede it

Couldn't agree more with Jeff Jarvis' comments this morning.

Linking is the fuel of the internet,it is the fuel of accountabilty and it is the fule of coonection and conversation.

No more to say so will leave it to Jeff

By trying to cut off links, News Corp is also endangering journalism. As an economic matter, the link is how our work will gain audience.

News Corp and Microsoft ganging up on Google

The latest attempts to destablise Google over the weekend have come from a comination of Microsoft and News International.

The former has

had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.

According to the FT

The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers, ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who cautioned that talks were at an early stage.