Sunday, July 1, 2007

Pay or free? Newspaper archives not ready for open Web... yet

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050201/

"Despite those economic caveats, Nisenholtz has still opened up some content on NYTimes.com, with older travel and technology articles joining book reviews in the free archives."

so i was unaware that my older links to certain sites turn into pay-per-article links. i found this older article about the subject. out of all my links to nytimes, only two music reviews and a first chapter in the books section still link to entire articles. the rest you gotta pay for after 7 days. this is one reason i don't read globeandmail.com because i know my links will be useless after 7 days. posting entire articles on this site is officially wrong but more importantly, the layout of the blog doesn't really work for long stories. i tried with the mandy moore article below. fortunately, my links to other popular sites like the guardian, telegraph and the star all seem to be permanent. the best solution is to visit my blog more than once every 7 days so you can read all the links. any insight into this issue is welcome.

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