Amygdala: a few quick url edits will get you your NYT Select

[swag]

or MSM Web Security in the 21st Century

(via www.warandpiece.com)

http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2005/09/ny-times-select-turns-out-to-make.html

Look, I'll say it very. Very. Very. Slowly.

Go to the OpEd page (or sports, or whatever). Click on a Select piece you want to read; here is Bob Herbert, for instance. Cut the extraneous crap out of the URL so it's just the URL: "http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/opinion/19herbert.html". Now cut the "select" out. Hit "return." You're there.

Now what frigging ten-year-old can't figure this out? Who wouldn't try the obvious as the very first thing?

I don't get it.

[scarletwoman]

1. The NYT must have hired Diebold to set it up.

:evilgrin:

[swag]

2. It's a complete embarrassment for the New York Times

I feel sorry for the implementation guys. But as Amygdala points out, she has used the same technique for years to get the "archived" articles for free.

[fredblogger]

7. Ouch.

That "ka-thunk" sound you just heard was the Web Developer at NYT Select getting his ass kicked to the curb. Nice find. Wonder how long it'll last.

[swag]

8. Apparently, a similar technique has worked for the author

of the short quote blurb for getting the for-pay "archived" articles for quite some time now.

But having to pay for archived articles never generated the sort of outrage that having to pay for same-day Krugman, Rich, Herbert, Dowd did.

NYT needs to back off "Select." A shitty idea and a shittier implementation.

atrios pointed out that similar tactics didn't help the Wall Street Journal's revenues at all.

[Skink]

3. See if we Democrats would just hack back we could win.

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4. The only people who won't "hack" these urls are the douchebags

who usually pay for the "Opinion Journal" online and who only want NYT to email around to their shit-ass broker buddies Tom Friedman's latest paean to unfettered techno-globalization.

[BurtWorm]

5. I guess the secret won't be lasting all that much longer.

;)

Right now there are three threads on this "secret" in GD.

[swag]

6. Yeah, and at warandpiece, and at Kos, and at amygdala's blog,

and elsewhere.

NYT, put another quarter in and try again.

It was a fucked up move to begin with: on par with "New Coke."

[swag]

9. I hereby abandon the topic to the feisty dupes that followed my OP.

I, after all, got my info from http://www.warandpiece.com and she got hers from

http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2005/09/ny-times-select-turns-out-to-make.html

The important thing is that the NYT abandon their shitty idea.

[swag]

10. This poor fucker

http://mediacenter.org/content/6764.cfm?FLASH7=1

CC: How do you see the evolution of the New York Times’ Web site in the next few years playing out?

NC: Ooh, good question. Being new at the Times, I see so much possibility, so many things we could do, so many things we are doing well, so many more things we could do. And it’s going to be a process of figuring out what’s next. The Times just announced their paid product, Time Select, starts in September, so one of the big focuses right now is gearing up for that, getting everything ready, making sure that when that launches it’s something that lives up to the title, Times Select, that it’s the best content. And people are going to be excited about getting it for the wonderfully low price of $49.95 a year. There’s a lot of work to be put in for that. We’re looking at design changes on the site. We’re constantly looking at ways to increase the reporters’ ability to work directly with us, to increase our producers’ ability to gather news in different ways.