When the Times first went over to a Premium Subscriber pay-to-read model The easiest way to find the column you wanted was to subscribe to the Suddenly, when we got back from our trip abroad, this was no longer A more functional alternative today seems to be Google’s new Blog Of course, the Google Blog Search<\/a> is still a beta service, so maybe The Bush administration, by exploiting read the WHOLE piece at Free Democracy<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boy, reading the New York Times Tough Shit Op-Ed pieces by their "big guns" Kristoff, Dowd, Herbert and Friedman for free keeps getting harder and harder. Decent writers, all, but hardly worth the price of the paper alone on the … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/googlogo.jpg\")
Boy,
\n reading the New
\n York Times Tough Shit <\/a>Op-Ed pieces by their "big
\n guns" Kristoff, Dowd, Herbert and Friedman for free keeps getting harder
\n and harder. Decent writers, all, but hardly worth the price of the
\n paper
\n alone
\n on the
\n days you
\n don’t
\n have
\n time or energy to read more than a couple of columns.<\/p>\n
\n they were decried as uncaring corporate capitalists. For a few days,
\n in a show of insolence and solidarity, half the blogosphere was reprinting
\n the password protected columnists en masse. Some
\n sites <\/a>prominently published all
\n of the restricted content – but now no longer do so. Burnout or back
\n down?<\/p>\n
\n RSS
\n feed<\/a> for the New York Times Opinion list, and then copy the titles
\n of the articles you wanted to read and paste them into the search field
\n of Technorati<\/a>. For a few months
\n there the top ten searches (prominently displayed at the top of the main
\n Technorati <\/a>page) were peppered with "Maureen Dowd" and "Nicholas
\n Kristoff" and the titles of that day’s Premium Content. <\/p>\n
\n true.
\n Had people lost interest, or were the search results being manipulated?
\n A Technorati search for one of today’s authors "Paul
\n Krugman<\/a>",
\n leads only to sites which reprint PART of the column and then link to
\n the New York Times members-only site. Have the Gray Lady’s Lawyers been
\n sending cease and desist love letters to the Technorati brain trust?<\/p>\n
\n Search<\/a>, which looks
\n relatively unmoderated. A search for "Do
\n You Know What They Know<\/a>" (the
\n title of today’s Herbert column ) leads to 5 complete reprints of the
\n entire column on different blogs among the top results. It seems
\n that the full reprinters are still out there, but smaller and more occasional
\n targets.
\n Go Google!
\n Slay that gray dragon.<\/p>\n
\n the Times legal department will get to them before the final version
\n is released.
\n So enjoy it in the meantime – we did to uncover the following succinct
\n sentence from the abovementioned Herbert column.<\/p>\n\n
\n the very real fear of terrorism, and
\n with
\n the connivance
\n of
\n Republican
\n majorities
\n in
\n both
\n houses
\n of Congress,
\n has run roughshod over constitutional guarantees that had long
\n been taken for granted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n