In two days, the New York Times will extend its paywall -- more like a payhedge, according to some accounts -- from solely covering Canada to covering the entire galaxy. That's right, it you want to read more than 20 NYT stories apiece, you're supposed to subscribe for something like $15/month. Don't subscribe and you don't get to read more than 20 articles -- unless you link to them from a social networking site or a blog.
That's where the New York Times Link Club come in.
If you see a URL you want to see from the New York Times, set up a link to it here. You can become a Group Editor and add it to the diary text. (In fact, I wish you would!) Or, I suppose, you can put it into a comment -- though of course it may get a bit lost there until someone moves it up into the diary itself.
We're going to be doing something a little different today.
See previous diaries in this series: intro, 3/23, 3/24, and 3/25 for more discussion.
For the last three days, I've been plopping a bunch of links into the diary when I post it, then updating it once or twice if I have time. Today we're going to try the other approach I had previously suggested: a shell diary.
My current thought (which others can certain override is that certain "permanent features" will always go at the top. A special feature like this one Complete Coverage: Anniversary of the Triangle Fire, should probably be up here for several days. As for the rest, I am thinking that maybe I just shouldn't put them in -- start the think out empty and let people fill it up.
I'm also using colored boxes (for the hell of it -- thank you belinda ridgewood for the instructions) and am including Bob Herbert's farewell column within each so you can see how the links look with it. When the first story gets added to each section (except columnists), please feel free to take it out.
If we go this "shell diary" route, diaries can be cued well ahead of time, because I (or whoever else) won't have to wait for the new day's content to show up. The downside is: when they first appear, they'll look rather bare.
I will post section heads (maybe the ones below, but nothing is set in stone) and we can all fill them up over the course of the day, at whatever pace we like. Ten people besides me are, so far, signed up to have Group Admin or Editor rights, which allows them to edit, queue and publish these diaries; by the end of the day I hope to double or triple that. I'd love for lots of people to be able to come here, as they see fit, and drop in a link or two for others' enjoyment.
I give you, then, this empty shell of section headers: help us fill it with whatever you like from today's New York Times! (This will be good practice for Monday, when this effort may really matter to those of us not being given free rides by Lincoln.)
Updated by Seneca Doane at Sat Mar 26, 2011 at 09:49 AM PDT
Link to Bob Herbert column is fixed. Fixed 16 times, actually.