Posts Tagged ‘news’
News Corp to charge for online news?
Well is seems Rupert Murdoch is going to want us to pay to read online news, in the latest headline coming from news.com.au.
I had a smirk on my face when I read a quote from the article that Mr Murdoch said.
Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting.
I would like to think that news.com.au does have quality journalism. Also don’t they get enough money from the ads plastered all over the site? I would like to think if they are going to charge for “quality journalism”, will they remove ALL the ads, one would hope so.
There is a nice thread going on Whirlpool about the whole scenario, quite a funny read.
What are your thoughts on this situation, will you be seeking your news elsewhere?
Tags: monetizing, news
PHP News Feed
Well I got bored today so I decided to write a PHP news feed grabber with SimpleXML. It grabs the RSS feeds from News.com.au, iTnews and Digg which then puts it into a nice little page and table.
You can see a demo of it here – times are based on QLD time.
Five websites I visit daily
I thought I would write a post in regards to what I do online each day and thought what better way to do that than list 5 websites that I visit daily.
Please leave me a comment in regards to websites that you visit daily so I can check them out. More info after the jump.