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Independent: Stephen Glover: What Mail Online could teach its rivals

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"Mail Online is not yet making a profit but it could be making serious money within a few years – a notion which would have seemed far-fetched only 18 months ago. The huge size of its ever-increasing audience is becoming attractive to advertisers. Mail Online tailors its advertising to regular users whose "cookies" it recognises from visits to other Mail group websites. Users are broken down into more than 700 separate categories, and every regular visitor receives different, targeted advertising."

MediaWeek: Three customers get to bypass News International paywall

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Very interesting. What other service providers might bundle Times content to add value to network access? "Three, the telecoms company, is offering its mobile broadband customers three months free access to News International's sites for The Times and The Sunday Times from today."

BBC News: Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June

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"The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June ... Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription. ... Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence for the first time and replacing the existing, combined site, Times Online. "

Press Gazette: Times banned NewsNow over paid-for links service

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"[A] News International spokesman has ... told Press Gazette: 'NewsNow has been using Times Online content as part of its paid-for, commercial as well as free services. They have continued to do so despite our direct requests for them to stop. As a result, we have taken the decision to disallow their indexing of our content.'"

Boing Boing: Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp’s websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals

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Cory Doctorow on November 8: "So here's what I think it going on. Murdoch has no intention of shutting down search-engine traffic to his sites, but he's ... hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some search tool you've never heard of that just got $50MM in venture capital) will give him half a year's operating budget in exchange for a competitive advantage over Google."