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I’m Maria T (big greek name) and I am a Greek geek living, working and playing in the U.K. I work for bluestorm where I do both front & back-end development. I like dnb and good coffee. More about me here »

thoughts on paid for content

thoughts on paid for content

Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about paying for content. When in November Murdoch announced that he was planning to block access to his publications via google I laughed out loud a little. His argument at the time was “The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal our stories – they just take them. That’s Google, that’s Microsoft, that’s Ask.com, a whole lot of people … they shouldn’t have had it free all the time, and I…...

meanwhile in twitterland...

hola amigos! home, my baby, drink, brothers&sisters, photoshop and maybe some gaming laters

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 20:07:30, from TweetDeck

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SitePoint is twittering from Melbourne, Australia

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from Seesmic, Tue, Feb 09, 2010 - 07:41:24

ducklord is twittering from Greece

ducklord At least, in 25mins it'll be 9. I'll be able to put #unkle louder on Winamp. The louder the music gets, the faster I type... :-D

from API, Tue, Feb 09, 2010 - 07:37:05

ducklord is twittering from Greece

ducklord And among all this, having Nick from PCW bash on the random wallpaper of Win7 I chose. "What's up with the cute little feet, man?"...

from API, Tue, Feb 09, 2010 - 07:35:28

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