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NewsNow not welcome on The Times web site

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NewsNow not welcome on The Times web site

Do you remember my rant last month about the Right2Link campaign? It seems as if News International, the British newspaper publisher owned by News Corporation, has decided it doesn’t want the patronage of visitors to NewsNow, a UK-based content aggregator. News International has told NewsNow that it is no longer to link to content on The Times website (no link, for obvious reasons) despite the fact that some two million visitors would have benefited from seeing the content. They’ve done it purely by using the robots.txt file, and because NewsNow is a reputable service, it has honoured that block. What’s interesting is that no other aggregators have yet been targeted. Read more »

British Sun newspaper tries to go Web 2.0 before offlining itself

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I find the latest TV advert by British tabloid paper The Sun quite amusing, poking fun at the iPhone and trying to convince us that it’s so much better reading a real printed newspaper than doing so online. They’ve even picked a voiceover guy who sounds very similar to Apple’s choice. It’s amusing given that the ultimate owner of The Sun, Rupert Murdoch, wants to delist his newspapers from search engines and charge for content, on top of today’s announcement that NewsNow won’t be displaying links to a load of British newspapers because of the Newspaper Licensing Authority’s pathetic licensing issues. Seems that “the must have handheld accessory for 2009″ Read more »