I ran into this paywall thing just the other day – not with a blog, but with the Chicago Tribune. An article I'd like to blog from for the St Nick's blog is now  behind the Trib paywall, and I don't even think my long-standing site login will help get to it. Grrrrr.

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Someday, Paywalls Are Going to Kill Blogging
Andrew Sullivan is leaving the Daily Beast and striking out on his own. (Or re-striking out, I suppose, since he was on his own originally until he began blogging for magazine employers.) For now, his plan is to eschew advertising and simply charge a yearly fee for access to the blog:

Some people I bump into ask me how we produce 240 posts a week (13,000 separate posts last year alone) or how we read the 90,000 emails we get a year. I have a si…

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