Maybe I’m reading this wrong but I think the article in the NY Times essentially says that the AP is hitching their wagon to newspapers and they’re going to limit Google and other aggregators from using news wire reports. If I were Google, my response would be to stop returning results for AP stories at all. Been nice knowing you AP.

Here’s an article at Gawker that explains it probably better than me. And Danny Sullivan issued a rant today that is waaaaay more insightful than anything I could have come up with. I particularly like the

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Funny. And true. You’ll never see WSJ give up traffic from Google. They just want it to be one way. And that’s why they’ll die.

Back in January, I posted about the death of old media and posited that the order of their death would be newspapers, tv, then radio because there wasn’t a mobile equivalent to radio for your car. In 4 months, technology has proven me wrong. In the last week or so a client has appeared for Pandora and Slacker for my Blackberry. After using both for a little while, I can safely say that radio is doomed too. If you’re familiar with my opinion of Clear Channel and the other fucktards in charge of radio these days then you’ll already know that the day can’t come fast enough as far as I’m concerned.

Why the hell would you listen to stuff programmed by somebody else when you can set up exactly the stuff you want to listen to? Especially when it recommends things based on your likes. There you go.

Back in January I posted about the death of old media. Later that day, it was announced that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was up for sale and if it hadn’t been sold in 60 days it would be shut down or go web only. Today is the last day that they’ll be publishing a dead tree bit newspaper.  In February, the Rocky Mountain News ceased operations altogether.

Remember you heard it here first…. newspapers, then TV, then radio. Sadly, this means that the ass-ponies at Clear Channel will be the last in the unemployment line. Here, watch this….