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aggregator stories: 11 news summaries
ANALYSIS

Rupe Not Likely to Yank Content From Google

But News Corp.
will erect
higher pay walls

Nov 16, 09 1:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch is not likely to go through with his plan to remove News Corp. content from Google News. He could negotiate a big payout from Microsoft for "de-Googled" content to place on Bing, Jason Calcanis suggests. But that's not likely to hurt Google, or help Bing, unless other... More »

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Google • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • aggregator

WEBSITE REVIEW

 Online TV, Movie 
 Guide Impresses 

Clicker takes the drudgery out of finding what you want

Nov 13, 09 11:24 AM CST
(Newser) - The Web is so rich with TV and movie options that organizing the content is a daunting task. “You could browse multiple sites, including crowd-pleasers like Hulu, but that's too slow and tedious,” Jeff Bertolucci writes. Enter Clicker , a new aggregating website its CEO calls “one part... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • website • digital video • online movie rentals • online TV • aggregator • catalog

Simon Dumenco

When News Is for the Rich, Newser Is
Robin Hood...

...and founder Michael Wolff is in jail

Nov 2, 09 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - The year is 2012, and Michael Wolff is in prison. He’s the first high-profile conviction under 2011’s anti-aggregation law, the draconian act that’s allowed newspapers to duck behind ever-pricier paywalls. These days, a New York Times subscription will run you $7,000, and “the cultural divide... More »

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media • news • Michael Wolff • aggregator • Simon Dumenco • paywall • Newser

ANALYSIS

With FriendFeed, Facebook Aims to Rule Social Media

FriendFeed buy is bid to consolidate Internet

Aug 16, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook’s $47.5 million purchase of FriendFeed is about more than competing with Twitter in real-time search, Chadwick Matlin argues for the Washington Post. Facebook could use FriendFeed and Facebook Connect to become a “social media aggregator”—a hub for all content its users create and peruse... More »

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social networking • Facebook • web portal • FriendFeed • Twitter • aggregator • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Newspapers are doomed, and if they’re looking for someone to blame, they should start with themselves, writes Bill Wyman for Splice in the second part of his industry critique. The "garrulous" Luddites working at newspapers—from managers to reporters—never considered the implications of technology. “They were... More »

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newspaper • newspaper industry • aggregator

(Newser) - In the avalanche of reporting and commentary on the collapse of the newspaper business, a number of salient, none-too-flattering facts have been overlooked about how newspapers contributed to their own demise, Bill Wyman writes on Splice. First, there's the misunderstanding that readers pay for news. It's advertisers who pay, and... More »

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newspaper • advertising • newspaper industry • aggregator

OPINION

Parasitic, Tabloid HuffPo Just Pretends to Do Journalism

The 'supposedly revolutionary über-blog' wears no clothes: Dumenco

Jun 22, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse journalism school recently awarded Arianna Huffington one of their lifetime achievement awards, an honor that strikes Simon Dumenco as absurd, he writes for Advertising Age. It sounds like a brutally ironic joke: a school for training journalists honors someone who’s built a popular website... More »

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media • tabloids • gossip • blog • Huffington Post • aggregator • photos • Simon Dumenco

(Newser) - Before newspapers held sway over politicians and maintained monopolies under federal anti-trust exemptions, they were a service people were willing to pay for, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post. Even if “technology is on the verge of removing some traditionally vital organs of the body politic,” they... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • New York Times • online news • online newspapers • subsidies • newspaper industry • aggregator • investigative journalism

(Newser) - Content aggregators like Google—and yes, the humble site you’re reading now—are “parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet,” Robert Thomson, editor of the Wall Street Journal, told fellow News Corp. paper the Australian last week. He warned that the “... More »

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Google • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online newspapers • News Corp • Robert Thomson • aggregator

OPINION

 Newspapers of the 
 World, Unite: Carr 

Collusion could avert disaster—but it won't happen

Mar 9, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The newspaper industry is in dire straits, and to fix it, its bosses must “hold hands and jump off the following cliffs together,” writes David Carr in the New York Times. First, end free web access; it will  drive away some readers, but they're not paying for quality... More »

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newspaper • advertising • antitrust • online news • David Carr • newspaper industry • aggregator • collusion

ANALYSIS

Web Copyright Lawsuit Could Cripple the Freedom to Link

Community outlet says big papers siphon off page views with mere snippets of info

Dec 23, 08 2:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A local newspaper chain is suing the New York Times Company for pilfering its online content, and the case could dramatically change how news sites link, Danny Sanchez writes on Journalistopia. GateHouse Media says readers can glean enough information from the snippets linked by the Boston Globe and therefore don’... More »

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local news • Massachusetts • copyright • lawsuit • blog • search engine • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • GateHouse Media • deep link • aggregator

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