Month: August 2010

Worcester T&G paywall begins today

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s long-awaited paywall is finally up today.

The cost for an online subscription is $14.95 per month.

After viewing 10 articles in one calendar month, you’ll be required to get a paid site account.

We’re currently (though not for long) print subscribers, so I could register for a free site account, but I’m curious about the technical details of the firewall, and so I haven’t registered yet. (Karl Hakkarainen blogs his registration experience here.)

This morning, I’m finding that deleting my cookies is enough to enable access to previously-denied articles. Seems like refusing cookies works, too. I admire that when their paywall fails, it fails in favor of the reader. That’s real user-friendliness, and it takes guts.

This Jeff Barnard rant from April is still worth reading.

Update: Here’s a bug someone sent in, and which I’ve confirmed. (Let me know if it doesn’t happen to you.)

You know how if you visit a T&G page, and leave it open for a few minutes, it refreshes? This seems to count as an additional article view.
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Hiroshima Day 2010, Worcester, Massachusetts

17 people gathered at Worcester City Hall today to repent, as Americans, for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament.

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Dave Griffith posted his great Hiroshima essay Pictures of the Floating World on his site today, in one of those Scribd-type crazy formats.

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Dan Dick and Me: The Old Rascal with a Good Old “catholic” Cause and the Young Catholic Rascal Who Admired Him

Daniel Eggleston Dick, a good old union man of eighty-six well lived years, died in the early afternoon of July 26th surrounded by his large family and a few close friends in Worcester, Massachusetts. I was blessed to be among those gathered at Dan’s bedside when he breathed his last. What a gift and privilege it was to be with him and his family at this most sacred time. This was a special grace that I had not anticipated receiving and that I will never forget. That’s why we call grace “amazing” I suppose. It is sheer gift like a 3D Photo Crystal that shows up as a surprise.
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Hundreds depart Worcester for war in Afghanistan

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As thousands gathered at Worcester’s Foley Stadium, including Worcester’s mayor and U.S. Rep, to bid farewell to more than 670 National Guard soldiers of the 1st Battalion 181st Infantry Regiment heading to Afghanistan, a dozen people stood across the street voicing opposition to the war, holding signs reading “Put away your sword,” “We are all called to be peacemakers,” and “I Love U: Please stop the cycle of violence.”

Though a few attendees expressed support for the protest, many more, of course, expressed disagreement.

According to the Globe, this is “the largest deployment of Massachusetts National Guard troops since World War II.” The troops will reportedly train in Indiana for 2 months before heading overseas.

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Vigil organized by the Saints Francis and Therese Catholic Worker Community.