No blogging today. It's County Fair Week, and I had to work at a charity food tent last night, and I'm working there tonight. It's kinda brutal for a guy who only makes money if he's at his desk, and it's death on extracurriculars like blogging.
I had enough time to find this interesting item, though:
The New York Times Co said on Monday it will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its Web site available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue.
TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year to read articles by columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman.
I certainly don't weep for the leftist NYT, but the general public's "script must be free" attitude concerns me. In a world where everyone writes free (reference this blog, for the most part), who will write well? The true artists, I guess, and the small handful that can continue to attract the very small pool of employers. But I gotta believe the livelihood of writing will soon join blacksmiths and horse carriage manufacturers in the Jobs and Professions Cemetery. Maybe not, but if I were a betting man . . .
