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After decades of slamming the Chicago Tribune in particular, and several months of loudly proclaiming that newspapers are dead, Jay Mariotti is supposedly going to be doing a weekly column for the Tribune as of September 1st. Which is fine, because I am capable of ignoring Mariotti across multiple platforms. I just wonder if, in […]

This will be fun to watch: News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites. The media giant is looking for additional revenue streams after announcing big losses. The company lost $3.4bn (£2bn) in the year to the end of June, which chief executive Rupert Murdoch said had […]

There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand. You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott: This will never be over. Ever. And the truth is, baseball […]

As you probably saw today, Joe Posnanski has been offered a Senior Writer gig at SI, and will be leaving permanent employment at the Kansas City Star. Great news for a great writer. One issue, though. Posnanski says he’ll keep the blog. I assume it will stay independent, but one can’t help but think that […]

Rob, please come back from your vacation soon, because I don’t know that I can take much more of this.

Lots of talk recently about the ethics of blockquotes and linkbacks and all of that. First you had the AP being silly. Then, on Sunday, came the much-discussed Ian Shapira article in the Washington Post. Today Maury applies that to baseball, talking about the role of “aggregators” such as Baseball Think Factory, MLB Trade Rumors, […]

So I’m reading the AP game story from the Phillies-Diamondbacks game last night, and I come across this sentence: Jamie Moyer allowed seven baserunners before recording an out in the third inning. Somehow, none of them scored. Upon reading it, I had to go back to the play-by-play to see just how Moyer got out […]

Maury gets a zillion guys — myself included — to weigh in on their use and abuse of social networking stuff like Twitter and Facebook and the like. I don’t use Twitter and don’t have any plans to, so I was curious if the assembled brains over there could convince me that I’m making a […]

They’re claiming that links to Associated Press stories violate fair use: Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it. In an interview, he specifically cited references that include a headline […]

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