Putting Up The Pay Wall

This morning, the New York Times announced that it will start charging for online content at the beginning of 2011.The new NYT model will allow readers access to a limited number of free articles each month, and then charge readers once they exceed this limit.

We've heard rumblings from content providers recently who are anxiously looking to add a second revenue stream to support their businesses. Everyone from Hulu to the Rupert Murdoch is talking pay wall these days. At least the NYT isn't looking to unplug from search in the process, like some others (looking at you Murdoch). Smart move considering a third to a half of traffic to the 5 major U.S. newspaper sites comes from search engines

And don't tell anyone, but even when the NYT pay wall does go up, a nifty little Google hack may still help you get your news fix for free (it works now to help access paid content across the web).