the road to web irrelevancy

one of the easiest ways to become irrelevant on the web is to change a formerly free service to a subscription.

on monday, the nytimes will wall off its opinion section through its TimesSelect subscription program. as it is, the times already had the mandatory registration (which could be circumvented via the invaluable bugmenot)

i understand the soundness of move on a financial basis, but it may hurt the nytimes profile on the model. if this subsciption program works, other media companies (particularly news media) could follow this model.

¶ - nitish @ 12:42 PM