Comments on: Murdoch madness

By: Double Jogging Strollers

Double Jogging Strollers — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:36:17 +0000

I have a funny feeling that Murdoch is just somehow too proud to admit he made a mistake. He’s causing all this hype about Google, blaming it on them and here and there but not himself. He’s just like a bratty little boy, refusing to admit that he screwed up but instead blamed it on his toys.

By: infomisa.net» Blog Archive » Is Murdoch mad?

infomisa.net» Blog Archive » Is Murdoch mad? — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:26:12 +0000

[...] News Corp. was going to work with Microsoft/Bing to take down Google, which Jeff Jarvis named it Murdoch madness. Jeff is a great journalist, researcher, and thinker. His recent book What Would Google Do? is very [...]

By: Blog This! » 2010 Tech Prognostications

Blog This! » 2010 Tech Prognostications — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:05:57 +0000

[...] major setbacks for newspapers in 2009: I’m correct, but way underestimated same. Even though Rupert Murdoch thinks dissin’ Google and putting content behind a paywall will solve journalis… 2009 marked the year even newspapers/journalists realized the old model was dying/near dead (see [...]

By: Apple iPad. Burdoch’s Great Week. | davaidavai.com

Apple iPad. Burdoch’s Great Week. | davaidavai.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:55:46 +0000

[...] to “put the genie back into the bottle”. Others compared their inflexibility to the disaster of the music industry etc. In autumn 2009 both, Burda and Murdoch, demasked themselves as dinosaurs – powerful but [...]

By: Is Murdoch mad? | semantic web

Is Murdoch mad? | semantic web — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:50:04 +0000

By: Who loves Google, who doesn’t, and other stories | The Evolving Newsroom

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:02:16 +0000

[...] Jarvis’s post on BuzzMachine is here. [...]

By: Idea for the Evolution of the Newsmedia: Get People to Take Their Medicine « Imprudent Loquatiousness: The Blog of Derek DeVries

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:28:24 +0000

[...] What newspapers need to realize is that they’re in the business of providing an information service, not a product (absent our sentimental attachment, a physical newspaper is no more consequential than the wrapper my Spicy Chickencrisp Sandwich came in). Their focus should be making that service more attractive (not trying to commit mass suicide by walling the public off from that service). [...]

By: As media gets more democratic, it gets more feminine | Socialmedia.biz

As media gets more democratic, it gets more feminine | Socialmedia.biz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:47:29 +0000

[...] • O’Reilly again importantly raised the specter of “a battle going on for the soul of the Web”: the Internet’s original decentralized architecture, based on open standards and open formats, vs. a new oligarchy of silos — proprietary walled-garden approaches we’ve seen to some extent by companies like Facebook with its social graph, Google with its search algorithm and Microsoft, whose rumored deal with News Corp. is madness. [...]

By: Rupert Murdoch considers leaving Google, marrying Bing « Radioactive Gavin is Out of Print

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:25:00 +0000

[...] Murdoch madness by Jeff Jarvis [...]

By: Veckan som gick – Vecka 48 « Same Same But Different

Veckan som gick – Vecka 48 « Same Same But Different — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:15:47 +0000

[...] på SSBD. Zackrisson skriver att Murdochs tokerier gynnar hans konkurrenter. Jeff Jarvis skriver om Murdochs Madness, men Seth Godin säger det bäst; “You don’t charge the search engines to send people [...]

By: MediaBlog » Google vindt alles behalve wat Bing vindt

MediaBlog » Google vindt alles behalve wat Bing vindt — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:41:53 +0000

[...] de kansen van die strategie kun je heel sceptisch zijn, zoals Jeff Jarvis die het allemaal maar flauwekul vindt. Stem of voeg toe aan [...]

By: Dermitt

Dermitt — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:53:12 +0000

More addollars means more unique visitors to a site. Then you have to give stuff away to satisfy them. It’s tough because ads only keep getting less valuable. Ads cannot support deep reporting. They are supporting opinion or BS because there is more of it.

By: Corporate Blogs, Rupert Murdoch und Social Media Newsroom: Weekender KW 48 - ethority weblog

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:29:47 +0000

[...] http://www.buzzmachine.com [...]

By: Murdoch madness | It's Open - Social Media Strategy Consultancy

Murdoch madness | It's Open - Social Media Strategy Consultancy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:48:15 +0000

[...] well worth a read. Share and [...]

By: Free news is sexy

Free news is sexy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:06:23 +0000

And when Sergy and Larry’s Google Lunar XPrize Winner finds evidence of Moon 1.0 it won’t be hard to choose between partying with Swedish and Norwegian babes or sitting at home watching repeats of Bill O’Reilly on my Tivo.

By: Free news is bad.

Free news is bad. — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:38:04 +0000

Your right having free news is a terrible situation it’s like how climate change pot smoking hippy activists and their buddies from NASA talk about how climate change is bad. How could we all survive without Fox News’s great insights about why Obama is the new communist Stalin, free healthcare is bad, climate change is fake, moon landing was fake, low taxes are good and Sweden and Norway are communist countries. But you know what Murdoch, the Fox News Team, You or I or anybody else cannot deny? Sweden and Norway have really sexy ladies and women find Sergy Bryn and Larry Page from Google more sexy than Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch from Microsoft and News Corporation! ALL FOR FREE NEWS!

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:31:45 +0000

I am not arguing from the principle that news should be free. I am arguing that it is better business – except Murdoch is unable – or unwilling – to meet the demands of the new online economy (though entrepreneurs will).

By: Sauron

Sauron — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:20:43 +0000

I am afraid i totally disagree with you. People criticize Murdoch based on principle: news should be free. And argue from that as a starting point. But principle is never a good starting point. Facts and money are.
The point Murdoch is making is that news should NOT be free. Murdoch must be paid for his content, and in fact, i am willing to pay for it, just as i am willing to pay for anything that adds value. As he himself recently argued, he does not WANT visitors who search on Google, just click around on his sites and don’t pay. He wants viewers that pay. So Google needs him a lot more than he needs Google. News is becoming a commodity, but Murdoch needs to protect the brands of his newspapers from being polluted by all this commotidized news out there. He wants to be “premium” so people pay for it. So Google is hindering his premium strategy.

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:18:35 +0000

> Anyone with any sense would serve dynamic content so that any search engine’s spider would get full content but customers would see the paywall.

That’s called “cloaking” and search engines tend to penalize sites that do it. (And yes, they can find out. More to the point, they want to find out.)

Note that the typical user response to a paywall, namely hitting the back button and going to the next search result, will also hurt the ranking of sites that do that. (For some reason, search engines think that sites that readers like should be more highly ranked than sites that readers don’t like.) Yes, Google can see that kind of user behavior.

> Or you might cut a deal with Google so they could cache your pages but they’d have to pay you for that privilege

Or, Google may decide that you’re more trouble than you’re worth.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:12:38 +0000

Anyone with any sense would serve dynamic content so that any search engine’s spider would get full content but customers would see the paywall. You’d probably need to negotiate with Google for them to not display the page as cached content.

Or you might cut a deal with Google so they could cache your pages but they’d have to pay you for that privilege – and Google could then try to make money from placing advertising on it. Hell, cut down on your on-line bandwidth costs by allowing Google to mirror the whole site and monetize it.

By: Nick Charney

Nick Charney — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:54:35 +0000

Jeff – Having just finished reading WWGD and stumbling across the NYT coverage of the Murdoch Madness as you put it I couldn’t help but immediately having the exact same thoughts as you articulated above. Even with deep Murdochian pockets the investment will never pay dividends the web.

By: Gorka Labarga: Blog personal de análisis y opiniones » News y Microsoft, camino del abismo

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:53:41 +0000

[...] conocido gurú de los medios de comunicación Jeff Jarvis ha publicado un post en su Blog titulado La locura de Murdoch. Allí, escribe sus previsiones de la alianza entre Microsoft y News Corporation contra Internet. [...]

By: Niraj

Niraj — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:40:05 +0000

Jeff – it seems to me that you are so strongly convinced that google is the only company that can do it – that you are willing to discard any positive impact of other forces like MSFT and murdoch.

What makes you think that MSFT paying Murdoch is a losing proposition for MSFT.

By: Digital Culture Links: November 24th 2009 « Tama Leaver dot Net

Digital Culture Links: November 24th 2009 « Tama Leaver dot Net — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:22:30 +0000

[...] Murdoch madness [BuzzMachine] – Jeff Jarvis speaks with wisdom: "Were Bing to pay News Corp. to drop Google, it would be a double-play in Google’s favor: Microsoft would lose money and gain little. News Corp. would lose traffic, shifting away from the search engine with more than 60% penetration in the U.S. and more than 80% in the U.K. to one that has 10 percent here – and that’s just the search engine; it doesn’t account for the disparate popularity of Google and Bing News. [...] News Corp. leaving Google would be a mosquito bite on an elephant’s ass. Unnotice by Google or by the audience. For there will always be – as Murdoch laments – free competitors: the BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corp, which he and his son complain about, not to mention the Guardian, the Telegraph, NPR, CBC, and any sensible news organization worldwide." [...]

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:19:15 +0000

Murdoch is like me old but he has money and he does not like it when people move his cheese. He also is very smart and this could be his way of getting more press (goole juice) for his vast empire?