Paul Kedrosky

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  • Paul Kedrosky  Not to be all Nick Carr-ish about this, but I'm totally fine with AP's decision. It's their content, and they should feel free to coop it up however they see fit. Do I think it's smart though? No.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Associated Press: In a hole, still digging
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  •   mathewi  Contrarian as always, Paul :-) And I would agree, provided there's a genuine issue of competition or injury to their ability to sell the content. But do you really think that's the case with something like the Drudge Retort?
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  • Paul Kedrosky  Hey, random Big Lebowski quotes in otherwise-unrelated blog posts is my character note.
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Hey Jerry: Welcome to the big-time
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  •   mathewi  Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that, Paul. Think of it as an "homage." I think that's French for "copycat." :-)
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  • Paul Kedrosky  I'd still call this a poison pill. After all, from Craiglist's point of view Ebay definitely meets the criteria for being a hostile would-be acquirer.
  • • 2 months ago
    •   eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse
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  •   mathewi  I agree, Paul -- but certain legal friends of mine disagree :-) They say a true poison pill is used to prevent a public company from being taken over, and they argue that that can't possibly happen in this case because Jim and Craig control the company. All Craigslist is really trying to do is prevent eBay from selling to someone other than them. My argument is that saying "poison pill," while not strictly correct, is a lot easier than saying "a dilutive shareholders' rights agreement that floods the company with cheap stock as a way of trying to prevent someone from doing something involving the shares."
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  • Paul Kedrosky  Fred -- Have seen that at a number of conferences, most amusingly at one of Tony Perkins' event in Palo Alto. The on-stage speakers were savaged by the "back-channel", was truly something to behold. Only way to make it work was to eliminate anonymity. Otherwise was cluster-f**k.
  • • 4 months ago
    •   The Audience Prompter
    •   A VC
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  • Paul Kedrosky  Howard, my friend, you need to stop holding back so much in these posts. No-one will know what you mean :-)
  • • 4 months ago
    •   The REAL Problem with Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble…
    •   Howard Lindzon
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  • Paul Kedrosky  You Canadians are sooo darn nice and even-handed.
  • • 4 months ago
    •   Lacy and Mark Z: Train wreck or lynch mob?
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  •   mathewi  Aren't we though? :-)
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  • Paul Kedrosky  Surprised you tumbled for this one, my friend. As I pointed out earlier today on my site, the headline writers have the story backwards. Murdoch says he is he is greatly _expanding_ the free parts of the WSJ. sure, some things will remain premium and become more expensive, which is just another way of saying that the Dow wire, DJNR, and some data services won't be free. Zero surprise.
  • • 6 months ago
    •   Fred is right and Rupert is wrong
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  •   mathewi  Yeah, it does sound as though the free content is going to be expanded -- which makes it kind of odd that the Journal would play the story the way it did. Maybe Rupe is trying to have his cake and eat it too with the story about the story :-) If it's just the Dow wire and DJNR and all that behind the wall then I don't care as much. But do we know that there's no regular newspaper (i.e., non-data) stuff staying behind the wall?
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  • Paul Kedrosky  I'm tempted to add it just out of spite :-) More seriously, this kind of thing can be highly useful if done tastefully and with fine-grained control over which things get tagged --but I don't get that sense yet on this one.
  • • 7 months ago
    •   Please God, no more pop-up links
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  •   mathewi  I kind of like the ability to find Creative Commons images and other content -- to embed in the post, that is. Put it in as a text-link popup and your blog is dead to me :-)
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