globeandmail.com: “The locks are off”

The Globe has announced that the wall has come down for some paid content: “Every Globe columnist, daily horoscopes, crosswords, Sudoku puzzles and a suite of news-tracking tools are now free. Margaret Wente, Christie Blatchford, Jeffrey Simpson and the rest of The Globe’s best-known columnists can join the fray and add their talented voices to [...]


“Newspaper ads hold their own”

You could not find better evidence of how far behind the curve we in Canada are on innovation on the Web. While America builds, we watch. And read, apparently - in newspapers of all things! How quaint. What’s particularly troubling here is that as a result there is no pressure to [...]


It was the best of papers, it was the worst of papers

I still shake my head at how staggeringly dumb - dumb, dumb, dumb - it is for the Globe to put some of its content behind a paywall, but this one takes the cake: an article that one would generally only want when the need arose, but when it arose, would want to be found [...]