Walls come tumbling down
Good news everyone, the Independent have finally done away with the subscription wall that until now imprisoned their columnists. They are now all available to read for free.
The site’s navigation is abysmal (all the columns are arrange in chronological order rather than by columnist) but it’s a step in the right direction. Is it churlish to suggest the Independent’s webmonkeys might have put a little thought into this? And did anybody else know about this - it seems to have been done with no fanfare whatsoever.
For anyone who hasn’t read him, the first thing you should do is go and wallow in the godlike genius of Matthew Norman, though you’ll have to do a little bit of digging to find his stuff.
(Via Fisking Central)
Update: I tell a lie. After a bit of a ferret around - it wasn’t immediately obvious - all of Matthew Norman’s stuff is here. The collected Simon Carr - also worthy of your study - is there as well.
Posted on November 21st, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Speaking as an ex-Indy website person, that’ll be “webmonkey”, not “webmonkeys”. Compared with the bloated staff levels on some of its rivals (Sky News, I’m talking to you…), it’s a one-man-and-a-dog operation. And a rather good one at that, I personally reckon.
Matthew Norman? That’d be the same mediocrity who wrote an awful Diary in the Guardian?
You’re repeating yourself, Justin. We’ve had this conversation before. Better to agree to disagree, eh?
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again?
God, I’d forgotten about that. Yes, let’s.
But have they sacked Barney Ronay yet?