Like most blogs, I link to a lot of newspaper and magazine articles that require free registration. Though free, these will often lead to spam emails, so people don't like to register and often avoid reading the articles as a result. There is a solution. Go to Bug Me Not, put in the URL of the newspaper and it will pop out a username and password for you. It's a beautiful thing.
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There is much blogospheric chatter right now about how newspapers will survive the combination of recession, with associated collapse in advertising revenue; the maturing of the internet as multi-media; and the obsolete business model of most newspapers.
My original hometown of Seattle,Washington, is experiencing a profound loss, a loss t
Atrios makes an interesting observation about the decline in newspaper sales and political trend at major metropolitan dailies:
tags: How Will the End of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?,
If you use Firefox you can add BugMeNot to your search engine box which makes it even easier.
Even better, there is a BugMeNot extension. Once installed, all you have to do is right click the login box and select BugMeNot.
Matt-
Any idea where I could find that extension?
The Firefox BugMeNot extension is here. (it also works with Mozilla and Netscape too).
-Ed
Thanks for the info., very handy and as you can see I finally downloaded Firefox and can read your blog now :)
Or, you can just use the dailykos login at most places.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/1/122623/0235