Asymmetrical Information

I thought they've been doing that for a while. At least a year.

Or link to the googled cached version of the article.

I've noticed the change, also. I subscribe to a free daily email from the NYT with top story links, but the last time I tried to search the archives there was indeed a charge. Nope, I didn't pay.

The Washington Post, eh? Thanks for the tip.

WaPo has linkrot, too. Don't blame them--blame the F#$&ing Supreme Court in their stupid Taisini decision.

They do, but it's not as rapid. i've yet to find any news source that doesn't have it to some extent.

Seems like Dwight's google cache idea is best -- additionally if you can manage to tailor your search query to fit the topics of your story, google will also highlight your search topics in the story making things easier.

The only downside is that news.google.com doesn't yet cache articles and that's about the only way you'll find a NY Times story on google.

ABCNews.com, although perhaps not the richest source of news stories, is free and keeps stories around for quite a while. It may be worth looking into.

Amen.

Not so fast:

http://davenet.userland.com/2003/04/07/nyTimesArchiveIsBack

I think they've changed the policy. All my old columns links are working.

And speaking of links, would you change mine in your blogroll? http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/. The vpostrel.com alias also works.

actually not all of virginia's old columns from her website work... my email's hosed so i couldn't tell her...

but the medium aged links from the columns page don't work (i.e. in the 1 to 6 month age)

Alex,

Taisini has nothing to do with it. That only applies to those authors whom the NYT didn't appropriately contract with. The problem was that the NYT was profiting from Taisini authors and not paying the authors for the use, as stipulated in those author's contracts (or more to the point, not stipulated in their contracts). It certainly doesn't involve anyone in the past two years. It's just the NYT trying to make a buck. Another buck. Off of your back. Don't go blaming the writers for not wanting to get hosed.

Is anyone going to start deleting links to NYT articles? Personally, since they are so oftened linked in weblogs, we have essentially become a market tool for them.

I use WaPo and NYT both rather extensively, as well as Financial Times. So far, I haven't had much trouble with links going bad from any of them.

Let me offer another reason for the WaPo over the NYT --

I'm teaching in Rome this semester and blogging from an internet cafe (my dialup connection is slow AND expensive). When I open a WaPo link I just have to go through the simple sex/age/zipcode registration process. For NYT articles I have to remember my damn username and password.

Let me offer another reason for the WaPo over the NYT --

I'm teaching in Rome this semester and blogging from an internet cafe (my dialup connection is slow AND expensive). When I open a WaPo link I just have to go through the simple sex/age/zipcode registration process. For NYT articles I have to remember my damn username and password.

Michael, something is missing. Using my laptop, anywhere, I never have to remember my NYT username/pw ...I believe it lives in a cookie somewhere. It is a pain, though, when I am at a foreign machine and have to remember...I usually just don't bother.

But when the link expires, you can always link to the Correction!

If I'm not mistaken, the NYT articles that are shared with Yahoo don't rot. Or they rot more slowly...

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