The madness of Murdoch

People who don’t understand technology really shouldn’t be the key decision-makers about it. As The Guardian reported this morning, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has asserted in his latest ill-informed tirade again the evil Internet that not only is he going to erect pay walls around all his online properties, he’s also going to stop search engines from indexing them. Now, I may be going out on a [very thick, sturdy, unlikely-to-snap] limb here, but I’d agree with TechCrunch that a fairly great whack of visits to the Wall Street Journal, The Times and other sites results from a Google search. And (logic, part 2) if you block a fairly great whack of users from finding your site in the first place, they ain’t gonna be subscribing to it. Hiding your entire site from the Internet? Well, that’s just pie in the Sky…