A couple weeks back I put together a list of News Corp-owned domains and posted it on Reddit in case anyone cared to use it to block those sites, perhaps in their hosts file. It got a few dozen upvotes and I figured it wouldn’t amount to anything.

Fast forward a few days and others have written Chrome and Firefox extensions to do so, which then received coverage on some big sites like Gawker, and the extensions have now been downloaded thousands of times. Neat!

Only trouble is, I mistakenly put in nationalgeographic.com in the list in addition to natgeotv.com, although the former is a non-profit and only the latter is a property of News Corp. The worst part is that the list’s now been re-posted by countless other blogs instead of linked back to the Reddit post (where I’ve made the correction). I contacted the authors of various Murdoch-blocking extensions, but I should’ve been a bit more careful in researching exactly what domains to put on the list.

Sorry about that, National Geographic.