Tag Archives: Times
Links: Bye bye Alesia, hello Ushi.cn
A few more links today before I shut down a few more browser tabs: News Corp gives up on digital aggregator project Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has abandoned its eagerly awaited online news aggregation platform, code-named ‘Project Alesia’, just weeks before it was due to launch. The UK-based project was to aggregate content from British [...]
Roundup of commentary on Times paywall
The Times paywall has been the subject of plenty of speculation and comment. I won’t weigh in on what, how, why and how well they’re doing but here’s a roundup of some of the commentary I’ve read recently: The Guardian said the Times website had lost almost 90% of its readers since the paywall kicked [...]
Online Spelling Bee
This package published by TimesOnline is a very engaging way of practicing spelling along the lines of competition Spelling Bees, which I used to watch on TV in the US with utter fascination. It's been launched along with a national Spelling Bee competition in the UK. Nice idea by The Times.
Times Online to charge for archive access
It's a question newspaper sites eventually face: do we or don't we charge for access to our archives? Assuming, of course, that they have a searchable archive. Times Online, the website of the Times newspaper in the UK, launched its archive in June on a free trial basis and has just announced it is putting much of it behind a paywall, according to the Guardian: An email to users described the first three months of the archive as the "free introductory period" and explained that although featured articles on the archive homepage would remain free, access will be charged at £4.95 for one day, £14.95 for one month and £74.95 for one year.
Links: reaction to Times paywall results