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Rupert’s Only Right About the Problem

I like to think of emails as gifts, every day I approach my inbox filled with excitement for the riches of information that live inside. Some days are disappointing, filled with emails that get deleted within seconds of opening. Others days, I am blessed to discover something thought-provoking, clever and occasionally funny.

An Ari Rosenberg piece in defense of paid content from Media Post falls in the “thought-provoking” category. His title makes his position clear “Rupert’s Right.”

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24 June 2010 By Admin

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Tags: paywall, lee glandorf, rupert murdoch, news corp.,

Thoughts on Google’s Publisher Paywall

And they say summer is slow?

After last week’s flurry of announcements from AOL and Google, could I be blamed for starting the week expecting fewer announcements from media behemoths?

On the heels of the Google vs. DemandMedia speculation comes the news that Google has debuted a “one-click tool” to allow easy online checkouts for paid content–essentially a PayPal for the paywall.

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22 June 2010 By Admin

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Tags: google, nespass, aol, paywall, publisher, lee glandorf, eric pfanner, british sky broadcasting, media post, laurie sullivan,