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: A reminder that the Wall Street Journal online is free this week. This will drive more traffic to sell more advertising and, it’s assumed, drive more people to be so enthralled they end up subscribing. It’s like your cable company giving you HBO free for a week — only without the bare breasts.
: WSJ.com also launched an econoblog.
Are they doing that at the NYT too? Not that it costs anything to read it online, but now there’s no registration.
As long as they are unlinkable, they are invisible on the net and their importance withers.
I’ve said for a while that I’ll look for an alternative to Big Media’s biased reporting and that if I found it, I’d be glad to pay. I’ll give the Journal a whirl this week and see what it offers. Thanks for the heads up, Jeff.
No bare boobs? Count me out ;-)