"They've got to know they will have to stop sooner or later. What good does it do dragging out the death of a mistake?"

I wrote back in 2005 shortly after TimesSelect began. Also:

It's awfully perverse to play up your influential opinion-leaders by making it harder for them to actually get into the interplay of opinion in the blogosphere.

Finally, it's over. Great. Too bad it took so long. The freedom to link to everything over at the NYT... how strange! I wonder how that will go. I have to get over the inhibition I've felt all these years, skimming the Times and deciding what to read based in part on whether I could easily blog about it.