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When the Guardian asked Jeff Jarvis to comment on news that Rupert Murdoch plans to charge for content, He pulled over off the road on his way home and wrote this:

Newspapers have had 15 years since the launch of the internet browser to reimagine and rebuild themselves for the reality of the post-Guttenberg age. But they didn’t. Now they are trying to reclaim old business models for a new media economy — a link economy, I call it, in which links give content value. Cut yourself off from links, behind pay walls, and you cut yourself off from the internet and its real value.