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[News] Murdock Steps Closer to Digg.com (Partly Snatched by Aggressive Monopolist)

  • Subject: [News] Murdock Steps Closer to Digg.com (Partly Snatched by Aggressive Monopolist)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:09:36 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
'The Wall Street Journal' digs Digg. Should we read into this?

,----[ Quote ]
| "The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire 
| site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to 
| Digg," Rose wrote. "The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com 
| articles tonight."   
| 
| The "full free access" part is key. While speaking to investors in Australia, 
| News Corp. mogul Murdoch said this week that he planned to release the 
| Journal's Web site from its paid-subscription model--when The New York Times 
| eliminated premium content earlier this fall, the Journal became one of the 
| lone holdouts    
`----

http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9816582-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

There were rumours about buyout negotiations recently (media company, said the
source). Sounds like Murdock is going to buy (and control) Digg, which already
has a corrupted monopolist as the advertisers and Microsoft's COLA shills
as 'moderators' in the UNIX/Linux sections.


Related:

Too Digg for their boots?

,----[ Quote ]
| What concerns me is that Digg hasn’t exactly been as Linux/UNIX friendly 
| lately. Oh, sure, they have the section and news gets put in it. But it feels 
| like less of it is being promoted to even just the technology page lately, 
| let alone the front page. And then, when they do, I’ve noticed quite a few 
| legitimate Linux/UNIX stories getting buried or pulled shortly after being 
| promoted.     
| 
| Furthermore, Digg has had an increased number of very vocal 
| pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS users commenting lately and it has been hard to find 
| a FOSS related story that doesn’t get flooded with anti-FOSS related 
| sentiment. It has been suggested on many many occasions in the comments on 
| Digg that Microsoft employs (some of) these people to create accounts and 
| post pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS comments.   
|
| [...]
|
| So I ask you, is there any way in the world that this new contract could 
| improve the situation? Not at all. Who knows what’s in the contract, but 
| theoretically there could be something in there about pulling anti-Microsoft 
| content in between the parts that cover flooding the site with pro Microsoft 
| ads and of course, anti Linux/UNIX ads.      
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/digg_too_big_for_their_boots

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