Though it doesn't affect me much (I've quickly gone from reading every editorial to scanning for columns by John Tierney and Alan's beloved but repetitive Thomas Friedman), I hear that the New York Times is moving some of its op/ed columns behind a pay wall. Matt Welch at Reason captured the essence of the situation.

Everyone (even "Daily Kos," which won't let me link to individual posts) is mentioning that some paying bloggers will probably paste the entirety of most columns onto their webpages, solving the problem for us cheapos. I agree with that forecast, but at the same time I'm slightly annoyed:

One of the main characters in my abandoned attempt at a cyberpunk story ran a website called "Norm's Annotated NYT," and though I still find the idea amusing, I can't help but notice that it's now glaringly unoriginal.