NYT To Limit Free Reading

The New York Times covers plenty of bad news, but this time it's producing some of its own. Effective March 28th, non-subscribers will be limited to reading 20 articles per month for free at NYTimes.com. Why mention this on a cooking blog? Because their food coverage has long been a source of some of my favorite recipes, including Mark Bittman's. The good news is that arriving via a blog link doesn't count toward your monthly limit, so reading a recipe from here doesn't count. Coming from a search engine doesn't count either, although some search engines supposedly will impose daily limits. Heck, it has always been easier to find a NYT recipe via Google than through the NYT's own search box anyway. You can read an outline of the plan here, and there's a link to FAQs at the bottom of the page. Not good news, but even scarier is what it might portend for the rest of our web reading.