26 January, 2005

Blogging the NY Times

Bloggers who refer to articles in the New York Times may find the NYT Link Generator useful.  Input the URL of a current story on the NYT website, and the Generator will provide its permalink.
Ordinarily, the URLs of current NYT articles 'decay' (i.e. change, leaving dead links in blogs) once they're added to the archive.  The newspaper also requires a login and the payment of a fee to access the ordinary archives, but not via the Generator's permalinks.

Not as good as The Guardian's system, whereby the URLs of current stories are permalinks, and there's free access to archived articles, but this might help restore the NY Times' reputation as the US 'paper of record'.

[Via Boing Boing]