Former BGMI co-worker -- and occasional patio-based beer-quaffing companion -- Craig Saila had an interesting item from Friday on his blog LCKY how the NYT is considering moving to some type of mix of paid and free content for nytimes.com.

I don't know quite what to say to that, except you'd be seeing a lot fewer NYT referrals from this site!

Methinks any global news site offering general news that thinks it can charge for access is living in a dream world.

Here's an earlier post on globeandmail.com's privatization of content.