Turning Point for Open Media Boston?

The Weekly Dig reports this week that the New York Times Company - owner of the Boston Globe and Boston.com - will start charging people to view the on-line content. Earlier, the Associated Press quoted a Globe spokesperson as saying, "the Globe has been conducting market research to determine what readers would be willing to pay, and weighing that against any potential loss of advertising."

Whee doggies!

This could be Open Media Boston's moment in the sun.

If the progenitors and prognosticators are right, internet users expect their web content to be free. To the extent that on-line viewers go to Boston.com for their daily dose of news, sports and weather happening right now, but will be prevented by a wall of subscription fees, I'm betting they will turn to well-written, independent, story rather than ego driven, local publications.

Just like Open Media Boston.

So why wait? Browse over to our site NOW before it gets so crowded, the pages are as cramped as an elevator at Fenway during a Yankees series.

We only ask you do one little bit of homework. While you're enjoying the arts, news, and techie coverage, can you please figure out how we're going to pay for this little slice of journalistic heaven?

Cheers,
Dave "your friendly neighborhood news editor" Goodman