Free access to WSJ through Digg

I know I'm late in discovering this, but you can now access an article on the WSJ online for free, through Digg. I'll try to update my old posts with this Digg access, and put it on all WSJ stories going forward.

Wall Street Journal Web site to be free?

According to this article in the L.A. Times, Rupert Murdoch is considering dropping the yearly fee for Web access to the Wall Street Journal. The yearly fee for the Online Journal is $99 ($49 if you have a print subscription), which I happily pay. I don't have the print subscription, preferring to read the articles online. I listen to the Journal's podcasts on the way to work instead of reading the print edition. The argument for making the online subscription free is that the increase in ad revenue generated by increased traffic to a free site would offset the lost subscription revenues. I hope that if they make it free, they make the archive free too, so that more people could read the articles to which I link.

Why I love the WSJ

I love The Wall Street Journal. I like it not just for its financial news, but also for stories like this (free WSJ Digg link). At least twice a week, it runs great stories like this that have nothing to do with finance, but that are absolutely engrossing. For other sites/authors I visit/read see the right side of the page.