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Friday, March 21, 2008

(Still) Getting the Online WSJ for Free

The Machinist blog has a great tip on getting the online version of the Wall Street Journal for free. Remember Rupert Murdoch's talk about making the site free, and then saying that they were going to keep the subscriptions and probably increase them? Well, that much was true, but to drive attention - and advertising - to the site, they also need to show up on the search engines. So the engines have to get in, which means that people can, as well. The blog entry gives two different methods of getting to the articles you want without sending a cent to Murdoch.

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