Yahoo! is a media company; Microsoft is not

Larry Dignan has a good story on why Yahoo! should choose a media partner, not a technology partner over at ZDNet.

Oh, and I really liked the closing:

Media companies should be owned by egomaniacs. I have a working theory: Media companies shouldn’t be publicly traded. And they should have some nut job at the top. Conde Nast can launch things like Portfolio magazine because Si Newhouse wanted to. Murdoch is in the same mold. Contrast that approach to Time Warner.

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