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i keep running into times select only articles and now this takes the cake. anyone have it and recommend it?

as design professionals you may be able to deduct the cost of nytimes select as a business expense...check with your accountant/attorney

what do you guys think about her blog being put in the select section? i sort of think it might be the kiss of death for a blog. i just feel like it's hard to generate lots of linkage and a huge community beyond the ny times if others have to pay to see and link to it. i just wish i could see what she was writing ;)

i considered getting select a while back but have vetoed it because i find i can live without maureen dowd most days. however, the second bruni goes select i'll be paying...

d*s ;)

If I wanted to pay to read things, I'd buy a magazine.

I agree with *sponge. for the first few days i was getting ready to pay for select but one thing or another took my focus away. one morning whie reading i realized that i simply don't miss reading dowd or rich. frankly i'm so much happier without the carping. the real news is enough to deal with while having my first cup of coffee.

Times Select is free if you subscrive to the paper, even if just on the weekends....no one here gets newspapers anymore? As for the blogs, Judith Warner brightens up my Friday mornings these days!

i've actually considered subscribing to Times Select in lieu of an actual paper subscription.

and, eh, do you KNOW how expensive the times is? the idea that anyone should have to pay that much for such a bloated and lackluster publication is beyond me. this is why the times website exists. so you can read only what you want, at your own pace, as the news breaks. for free. and without having to kill all those trees.

Even if I wanted stacks of newspaper around the house, newspaper delivery to my neighborhood is charitably described as "erratic," making print editions a frustrating waste of money.

opoponax, yes I KNOW how "expensive" the Times is. But I'm willing to shell out $20 a month for my Saturday and Sunday morning reading - which actually lasts me all week. Besides, you can't do the Sunday crossword puzzle online (or maybe you can, but who would want to).

Oh no, is this really going to turn into a war over who subscribes to the Times? Why did I even post a comment.......

The one area that the NYT should have a natural fit for a blog was and is real estate but their attempt at just such a blog failed miserably:
http://walkthrough.nytimes.com/

There's a pretty good summary and discussion of its failings here
http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851

I occassionally read Frank Bruni's dining blog and this is an example of big media doing a blog well (and keeping it free).
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/

It's like the Times can't decide how to do this. Much like Conde Nasty as per Maxwell's report a few weeks ago.

I still wish Allison well though and maybe I'll pay for a weekend sub so I can get the RE section on a Saturday. Yes, I do know it's already on line by Saturday aswell but, as much as I have extolled the virtues of crappernetting before (thank you Max), reading the NYT RE section on the john is similarly satisfying and, besides, I do want to check out Allison's blog.

whoa there, eh.

it's not my intention to jump down your throat because you happen to like getting the times on paper. whatever floats your boat, man.

it's just that saying that the obvious answer here is to pay for the paper at home is kind of beside the point.

not to mention not feasible or desirable for everyone.

also, why the quotes around expensive.

$20 for 8 newspapers (which are something like 75% ad or product-placed content on weekends) is a bit much.

$20 to have something on paper when you could read it online for free is a bit much.

$20 for 8 hunks of newsprint when you can't entirely afford other household amenities like AC in more than one room, laundry service, cable, etc. is a bit much.

just because an amount of money seems like nothing to you, doesn't mean someone else with fewer resources wouldn't consider it expensive.

eh,

THANK U! for a fine solution.
i'd like to get wknd + thurs editions (however i would consider paying for Select, like Salon select or whatnot, or is it really naive to think paying for online content might help writers get paid? some one please tell me).

The Home + Style sections, i'm in w/drawal from when i could read them at work, at a 2nd security guard job, so must say, others must relish being able to clip & save house + home articles of course, or the nuptials (single people's torture page or how sex + the city put it), which in newsprint, as the legendary bit from Mc Sweeney's put it, featured couples with teeth and whites of the eyes gleaming so brightly, that in in their portrayed euporia, it appeared they'd been "eating powdered sugar donuts whilst gazing into atomic explosions"! (added here for comic relief).

so it will be exciting to see Arieff's particular passions shine thru in her blog, clearly (which would be...if anyon'e kind enought to summarize them, for those of us not fully up to Dwell snuff)?

orange ed -- i don't think it's possible to get the thursday times along with the saturday and sunday times at that price. maybe things have changed, i dunno, but i think the options are weekday times ($$$), weekend times ($$), or both ($$$$$). you can't pick and choose which days you want or which sections you want.

also, the web content (which is the vast majority of all times content) is available in handy printable format -- even better than clipping out of the newspaper, in my opinion. i read all the house and homes articles that struck my fancy on saturday.

opoponax, I get the times on Fri, Sat and Sun. From what I remember when I was subscribing, there were quite a few options: Mon - Thursday, Fri - Sunday, Fri - Mon, etc. Not sure about Thursday and the weekend though.

good to know, good to know.

more and more, i'm wavering between subscribing to Times Select (i also found out today that you get 100 free articles from the archives per month!) and never deigning to read the Times ever again.

anyone else notice the total lack of coverage of Ney's guilty plea on friday?

just dreaming about the thrus + wknd option...anyone care to share their favorite or reliable online printer ink store?
to aid printing the most special stuff...thank opo!
(oh, so i read the wikip. link, duh, sorry!
i love her trailers book!)

the other great thing about reading it on the web is i don't have to recycle it. i live in a very par tic u lar town. we recycle everything last bitty. and frankly it is a full time job. so i have really cut down on purchases that might require major recycle. like the newspaper, large boxes of detergent. (use liquid concentrate), etc. and the new york times is one more problem eliminated. still get arch. digest. but i'm working on that.

monique wittig wrote a book about trailers?

i do a lot of printing as part of my job, and we use B&H photo on 34th st. for all our ink. very reliable, and i love going there in general. that said, i use a large-format machine that takes a certain kind of harder-to-find ink, which we buy in bulk. i don't know what their prices are like on standard home-printer inks.

Haven't been on AT in long time (working way too hard and now finished my apt decorating) but see all the talk about NYT.

- You can subscribe to M-F, S/S, Sunday only or Fri-Sun. With ANY home delivery subscription, you getTimesSelect for free.

And, with TimesSelect,either with your home delivery subscription or if you buy it on it's own, you can archive articles and leave them in your personal archive box (so you don't have to clip and save). Also, you get to 100 back articles free every month. And the articles go back in time to 1851 starting this month.

Paying for a blog is RETARTED!!!

That's what advertisers are for.