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Content is already available free - and consumers never paid a realistic price for it anywayRUPERT MURDOCH's declaration, in an interview with Sky News, that he was thinking of barring Google's search engine from indexing all of News Corporation's websites, had a magnificent Canutian ring to it and got the blogosphere in a (Read More)
Nov 15, 2009
: As John Naughton said - the news better be good. HahahaMicrosoft may think the content is worth a lot but will the rest of the networked feed crazy world ? I think not. I think that given who's news it is That's Rupert Murdoch's right? are the general public going to pay? no. He's in the palms of Eurogovern's hands - he does what he's told and how can he did up more news that's GOOD anyway? When it's well known he's turned a better penny from blood and sleaze than anything else. Leopards have spots for a dam good reason and he's not going to change his spots any time soon. The days are passing when we were all so gobsmacked by the amount of money someone has made - that bootlicking was the first thing in our minds. We are not so affected by hoarded cash as we were. Microsoft is in for a surprise if they exclude Google to steer Murdoch's news for microsoft to re-sell. Exclusive used to mean high class - and it doesn't any more because this move calls to mind exclusive crap, bullshit and lies. I think he's done a Rip Van Winkle - or else what's he on? Hey - maybe he will get his stuff researched more and put over facts and figures of value to the people in discerning who is doing what to whom and why? Maybe he will bring back the old values of journalism and truth? I've never met the man. What do I know? Jackie Mackay 1
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Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasantAt first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be more precise, extinct animals.Nevertheless the su (Read More)
Nov 11, 2009
: Feel tempted to read the full article? ... go on it's about a tome soon to be published. How is THAT news? because two publishers wanted the title so it was all about how much money they advanced. Good PR eh?While we are all interested in our origins the facts are - well two of many facts - one that the dating tests we do can be wildly out. It had already been mooted softly that the thought processes and expectations of the testers and those who pay the enormous fees for the tests can affect results. To me carbon dating is a good guide up to the several hundred thou. The second thing is that frankly it's sensationalist. Why do you think the publishers were interested? Hollywood has room for more hopeless destruction, frightening images, desperate pain and - wow what a title - The 6th Extinction. We can't even be sure there ere only five of them already and hey - what about the word NEAR? Near extinction has a slight ring about it. Maybe there will be 'Mass Extinction ll and lll. Great - more weird looking animals that are long dead - I have not even brushed the surface looking at wildlife showing 20 new species here - 50 more there.... and that's just a few people looking. Live animals are interesting - what's so great about more dead ones? For sure there are many other things to occupy our minds with - like effecting some solutions to the 'global warming' headless chicken for a start. That this book tops the charts is a done deal already - another great big "so what ?". However the extinction is not a done deal. Just because a book sells well in support of a theory (global warming) or even passionate postulation by the powers that be ... facts is facts - they DON'T KNOW. What's in it for them? Already announced is the answer: So they can impose a great big global emissions tax and a world government and enforcement crew to police it. Who are 'they'? we shall never know as European rule is all closed door committees. Or it could be that they merely want something to blame for all the bad weather while they lay the guilt trips on we the people. Roger Lewin, a journalist is quoted in the book: "Homo sapiens is poised to become the greatest catastrophic agent since a giant asteroid collided with the Earth 65 million years ago, wiping out half the world's species in a geological instant," You think? As if he knew. "half the worlds species" ha! "65 million years ago" - yeah right. Their are windin us up mate. Jackie Mackay 1
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London travelers yesterday had a laugh at West Ham tube. Even the trains stopped there for a bit longer. On the tannoy was a sex tape that had everybody giggling as sounds of over exertion filled the air."Nothing to do with us" they said must be a matter for the police. The police are baffled. Personally I believe it's (Read More)
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The Guardian
• Siegfried Sassoon papers attracted interest from US• Cambridge library still short of asking priceA threat that a rich personal archive of Siegfried Sassoon's journals, poems and letters would be broken up or sold to the US appears to have been lifted, it will be announced today.The National Heritage Memorial Fund will sa (Read More)
Nov 07, 2009
: CHALLENGEThe Sassoon estate is ludicrously greedy and puffed up demanding such a sum - one and a quarter million quid demanded by rich hoarders to release our heritage (a lot of it out of copyright time anyways) to the university for the benefit of the whole !! Even half a million value on interesting writing that has already been in the public domain by virtue of people having paid to read it in public newspapers. .... is already extortionate and rapacious. I am only surprised that Siegfried allows it. Someone who can write a big NO to going back to the trenches and get away with it unpunished (quite a good writer then) can stand by and watch his venal money grubbing family estate do their thing. What a swiz!! Wake up Siegfried and put the heritage's half a million's worth in project Gutenberg and let the guys you employ get on with twisting their whiskers and rubbing their hands in glee... shame to spoil their fun. This was supposed to turn up as good news and I find it pretty loathesome. Sorry folks must do something about Mapphappy rss feeds - or tighten up the keywords. Jackie Mackay 1
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guardian.co.uk Sport
An Olympic rower recalls how his dedication to his sporting career led to a nervous breakdownFrom the outside, the life of an Olympic champion might appear more glamorous than a career as a bus driver or postman. But in the midst of my nervous breakdown, after 18 years as a senior British international rower, I would look e (Read More)
Nov 01, 2009
: Anything can become an obsession. This article only emphasises the down side of a man following his passion - analysing with hindsight.Whatever the elixir - the thing that drives a man or woman to take it - be it rowing or the bottle - is always filed tidily away in the "addict" dumpster. Those around an addict - family, friends, lovers and the addict themselves fall in to the slow shuffle ordained by those who 'know'. All good boys and girls now doing the right thing. Any passionate persuit be it rowing, music, writing, building may be admired at first and then journalists and the public want to know what has inspired the artist or adventurer. Theories abound everybody else know better. Then after the palms the punishment Shame to just put it into the category of addict and have human fire in the belly explained and denigrated all in one neat package. You could say 'Everyone's an addict of something - either you know one or you are one - either way your'e hooked'. Or you could say it's something that needs to be cured - a disease that is. I like to see writers encourging action and special efforts as value in themselves instead of explaining it all away and trivialising it as some condition. Thanks to the brand new social network http://SoAct.net there is an indication that TV is not enough - the real world is something to get excited about. Jackie http://www.covent-garden.co.uk 1
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guardian.co.uk Film
Actor John Cusack made his name in edgy, offbeat films and is known for his outspoken political views. So why is he starring in Sony's latest blockbuster?I am waiting to enter John Cusack's London hotel room when I'm approached by a dainty blond ice pick of a woman. My heart sinks. Every journalist knows that being taken as (Read More)
Oct 31, 2009
: Well I would say that John cusack had a point. Having said that he likes to take risks the jounalist with a nose out of joint - clearly whapped by the ice pick - they couldn't have got on.Disappointed was he? I woud wager that John Cusack was being strictly authentic and his known frankness could have got him in trouble previously. Hence the presence of the friend. The friend could have been more friendly and kind. Perhaps she was really - who knows? he was prolly in a grouch. 1
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The Guardian
Publisher's announcement, which puts 36 staff jobs at risk, comes two weeks after London Evening Standard went freeAssociated Newspapers plans to close freesheet London Lite, the company said today, putting 36 jobs at risk.The announcement comes two weeks after the London Evening Standard, which Associated's parent company (Read More)
Oct 30, 2009
: 120 tonnes of paper – the equivalent of 1,920 trees – in 35 recycling bins was the result of a few months of the freesheet 'competitive spirit'. Now the standard is a freesheet it hopes to mop up the advertising. London Lite was grabbing 8 million profits a year before the scrunchy squeeze from the Standard. Advertising loses it's cred even more in newspapers that print so many lies (spin and salacious sleaze)the public will lump it altogether as something else to filter with their cool cynicism. the result? it's the start of the end of the newspaper as a credible means of communication. of course there are the proper ones that advertise more expensive stuff like the Times and others who have great journalists like the Independent - however the crack has been started by Russian thinking - cheap cheep cheep The division starts with the difference between quality and gutter (sorry recycle bin) press. One day the bean counters will learn - money isn't everything. 2
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The story from the FT perspective is about a lot of City folk leaving high paid stress treadmills to open a restaurant. The good news is that Alberto Gonzales is doing it in style 100% organic. in the heart of New York. Good taste is taking off again. ****Rhymer Rigby (FT) writes "Alberto Gonzales has perhaps the most exoti (Read More)
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Aug 24, 2008
: Rhymer Rigby (FT) continues:****"What appears to unite all those who can stand the heat is a passion and a sense of mission. In Gonzales' case, it's convincing Americans to eat organic. That extra motivation helps. "You take a vast pay cut to do this," Chugh says. "When I spoke to the owners of the Cinnamon Club, one of their most obvious questions was 'So you want to work harder to earn less money?'**** "It's very strange to sit there and say 'yes' " He said.****Published in The Financial Times Limited 2008 2
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This is good news about the effectiveness of public opinion. Monsanto are seeing the writing on the wall... 'we don't buy hormones in da milk!'*******From a NYT reportMonsanto announced that it is offloading its business of producing an artificial growth hormone for dairy cows. NYT says "The decision comes as more retailers (Read More)
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Aug 24, 2008
: The story clipped off and the link goes to NYTimes (complaint) so here's the rest - the good news bit **** Since then, a Monsanto lobby ('advocacy group') have attempted to have similar laws or regulations passed at the state level using the same argument. They succeeded in Pennsylvania, where the secretary of agriculture actually banned the labels. This created consumer contention ("uproar" to quote NYT in a highly educated state) that succeeded in overturning the ban by bringing the issue to the fore so that the governor was fully aware of Monsanto's agenda to increase their profits by misleading the public with insufficient information.Whether or not they succeed in selling a company that is probably a poison chalice, Monsanto says it will focus instead on its more profitable business of selling seeds and "developing ways to improve crops". Monsanto is arguably the largest progenitor of genetic modification producing also the popular Round-up Ready systems which have been massively criticized for poisoning our pollinators and killing our wildlife. There is a growing concern that they are rushing their GMO products to market with insufficient quarantine testing. Add something
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