Looks like Raleigh’s News and Observer is playing registration games again, locking its content up behind a paywall. Seems they don’t understand the value of the Internet after all. Now they’ll fade into obscurity on the Internet as other sites collect their now locked-out visitors.
Look for more links here on MT.Net to Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL television website. Though WRAL’s site has been devastated by the Ugly virus, at least it doesn’t discriminate against its visitors.
I haven’t figured out what the N&O is doing with registration. It seems like if I open 10 links from their RSS feed, one will pop up with registration every once in a while. If I erase the registration URL and enter the story URL again, it works fine.
For example, I read a bunch of stories this morning, and no registration.
It’s like there’s a misconfiguration or something.