Friday, October 30, 2009

Escaped Prisoner Teases Police with Facebook postings.

Summary of the article:
Craig Lynch, escaped England's Suffolk's Hollesley Bay Prison in September. He is now using Facebook to brag about his freedom, posting a status' messages and rude photos to mock the authorities who have been after him for months.


I love this man. I feel as if he is using Facebook to its fullest extent. For him to not only escape from a high security prison but to then "brag" about his escape, this man has guts. I loved reading this article because the author (who opted to remain anonymous) came off as angry, almost cynical that a man would abuse the Facebook that mr. anonymous grew to know and love.
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Friday, October 9, 2009

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/News-Corp-Chief-Executive-Rupert-Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch, an Australian born self made media billionaire Rupert Murdoch has "warned internet search engines the time has come for them to pay for news content."

Rupert has warned that search engines such as Google and yahoo will have to start paying for news content that they get from all their many sources. He said,
"the aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content." I think this is very silly. This idea was advocated at the world media summit in Beijing China. A media guru meeting house that discusses how "the media can deal with the challenges posed by the internet and changing technology." I cannot laugh at this. If it isn't on-line it is a dying art. And they either need to get on the band wagon or hope that search engines can support their "High End" lifestyles, otherwise the only people paying for there stories will be Google and Jeeves.