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Globe and Mail pay wall comes down

by Mathew on June 2, 2008 · Comments

I don’t do this a lot, but I just thought I would point out for those who might be interested that the Globe and Mail — which happens to be my employer — has removed the pay wall that used to block access to a lot of the paper’s online content. All of the columnists [...]

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Nick Denton, blog warlord and economist

by Mathew on April 4, 2008 · Comments

So all this time, Gawker Media founder and evil genius Nick Denton has been pretending to be a mild-mannered blog network CEO, when in reality he is a behavioural economist doing ground-breaking research into the mechanisms of human motivation and productivity. Of course, it could be that even Nick D. doesn’t realize the extent to [...]

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Digging a hole in the WSJ pay wall

by Mathew on November 13, 2007 · Comments

Well, Rupert Murdoch has been dropping pretty big hints that the Wall Street Journal pay wall is a-comin’ down pretty soon — and it shouldn’t be too hard to make it crumble, since Digg just put a pretty big hole in it. As Kevin Rose describes in his rather economical post on the subject (I [...]

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