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May 19, 2007
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MoveOn Blasts MySpace Over Censorship
David A. Utter | Staff Writer
MoveOn's executive director Eli Pariser called MySpace a "serial
censorer of user-generated content" and presented a litany of
complaints about the social networking site's practices.
What happened to the Common Cause ad against media consolidation?
Is MySpace planning to erect a toll road to its profiles for
widget makers? Isn't MySpace's stance against ads in profiles a
little disingenuous considering that Cingular is Tom Anderson's
number one friend?
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MoveOn has some issues with MySpace, and aired them at the Personal
Democracy Forum in New York. Pariser was scheduled to participate
in a panel with MySpace spokesman Jeff Berman on user-generated
content.
MySpace and MoveOn are politically polar opposites. MySpace's
owner, News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, lusts after the Wall Street
Journal for its conservative journalism. MoveOn is vastly more
comfortable with the likes of Al Gore and similar-minded people.
MoveOn wants to challenge MySpace over its community, namely the
lack of say the community has over the changes MySpace makes,
particularly when it comes to user-generated content. Censorship
concerns have led to this criticism of MySpace, and MoveOn has
launched an Internet User Rights initiative to combat it.
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Several examples were cited by MoveOn in a statement about their
complaints. They gave the Common Cause ad from January, a Rupert
Murdoch parody from April, and a profile for a band called Kids
On TV as examples of content censored by MySpace.
The arguments don't seem to hold up well. Anyone who is on MySpace
can also choose to leave MySpace. If a band feels it is being
treated unfairly by the site, they can take down their content,
put it up on a new site, and leave a link at MySpace for fans to
follow.
Fox Interactive Media gets to make the rules for MySpace.
Policies that alienate their users are unfortunate, but options
do exist elsewhere. If enough users vote with their keyboards
and head to Bebo or wherever, MySpace will either get the message
and change an unpopular policy, or just watch those users leave.
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Rumor Mill: Google To Acquire FeedBurner
Doug Caverly | Staff Writer
It's just an unconfirmed rumor at this point, but Sam Sethi has
"just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying
Feedburner." Considering that Microsoft just spent $6 billion
on aQuantive, this purchase would certainly be a good way for
Google to steal back some headlines.
It would also be a good way for the Mountain View-based
corporation to bolster its presence in the realm of RSS Feeds;
after all, the 2007 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards just honored
FeedBurner with first place in the "Feed Management" section.
The service received five stars each in the categories of
usability, usefulness, and interface and design.
So . . . why the lack of official word? "The delay in announcing
the deal . . . is solely due to the delay in closing out the
DoubleClick deal," writes Sethi.
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He continues, "Today many of us predominately read blogs via our
RSS readers and thus never actually visit the original blog source
and/or see the sites supporting adverts . . . . So RSS has
effectively eliminated the potential value of AdSense and
DoubleClick because the majority of people never view them."
Yet if the search engine corporation bought FeedBurner, "Google
could then start to serve their own ads (Adsense or DoubleClick)
into the RSS stream."
The Web seems to be responding positively to the idea of a deal
between Google and FeedBurner, even if Irishman Ken McGuire begins
his post with the exclamation, "Good Lord." Chip Griffin considers
both the good and bad, and yet has already dubbed the potential
combination "GooBurner."
We'll be sure to post an update if either company weighs in on
the issue.
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