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What is Rupert Murdoch up to?

15th
November

2009

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Over the past week there has been a bit of buzz online about Rupert Murdoch’s plans for the future of News Limited’s websites. In a recent interview with Sky News, Rupert said he was thinking about removing his websites from Google and placing his news articles behind a paywall, available only to subscribers of his websites.
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The Satisfaction of Leaving

7th
November

2009

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The Satisfaction of Leaving

Ok, so I might be drawing a long bow to say that this post has anything to do with web design and development, but bear with me.

I’ve been banking with the same regular, normal bank since I was a child. There’s never been any realĀ  incentive to change banks, no matter how frustrating the bank behaves, because, well basically, you still end up using another bank. Its kind of like voting. It doesn’t matter who you vote for, you still end up with a politician! In this case, it doesn’t matter who you bank with, you still end up having to deal with a bank.

Well that’s all changed.

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