Effective midnight last night, the TimesSelect subscription thing ended, opening up the archive and all the secured content. The reasons why were kinda interesting -- they were making $10 million/year (!), but apparently advertising has a brighter future. I'm surprised that many people subscribed. Paying to read Paul Krugman's neo-Keynesian, anybody-but-Bush vitriol was like wading through acid to pay your taxes. But I they had more people doing that than I would have guessed.
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Interesting article at Slate about the iPhone versus the Blackberry. The author feels that the Blackberry is the clear winner. I have no idea, but I have one student (and one boss) with a Blackberry and one student with an iPhone, and the three of them seem to agree on most of the points raised here. Everyone seems to agree that the Blackberry is better for typing, and most seem to think that the iPhone has some maturing to do, but that some of its features are good advances that they'd like to see the industry embrace.
http://www.slate.com/id/2173481/nav/tap1/