I got a tour of the NY Times news room today from Martin Nisenholtz the CEO of NY Times Digital, and Michael Oreskes, Assistant Managing Editor for Electronic News. We also concluded our discussion about the Times archive, we found a good compromise, the archive will remain open to people who link from weblogs, but they will keep the toll booth up for others.
Dave Winer has been very outspoken about the importance of collaboration between blog developers. He's been especially critical of Google's purchase of Blogger. But if the NY Times only allows incoming archive links from Radio Blogs - isn't that an unfair advantage?
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Of course, if the NYTimes also opens up their archives to blogger and MT users, it's a great thing.
Posted by: david | June 4, 2003 10:11 AM
More on the Winer/NY Times relationship at Harvard Weblogs. Looks like it will be open to all weblogs who appened &partner=USERLAND to the URL, as long as there is no abuse.
Posted by: david | June 6, 2003 5:53 PM