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If you were a tech billionaire...
Now that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post...
Would you feel you needed a newspaper of your own too?
Pierre Omidyar
Michael Bloomberg
Mark Cuban
Larry Ellison
Bill Gates
Steve Case
Miles Gilburne
Evan Williams and/or Biz Stone
Steve Ballmer
Bill Gross
Sean Parker
Dustin Moskovitz
Ted Leonsis
Michael Dell
Mark Zuckerberg
Drew Houston
Peter Thiel
Paul Allen
John Doerr
Larry & Sergey
Eric Schmidt
One of those guys has to be getting itchy.
And what will they buy?
PS: The question reporters don't want asked...
When a billionaire buys his or her own newspaper...
Is that like buying a PR firm?
Tom Foremski thinks so. ;-(
In the latest transition on Scripting News a bug appeared that caused my feed to lose its descriptions on new posts. This has now been fixed.
Sorry for the outage.
Still diggin!
Dave
PS: Thanks to Jordan Sherer for the heads up.