As has been widely discussed, mocked, lamented, the New York Times today is introducing a subscriber model for its award-winning web site. Users can access twenty articles a month for free, anything more will set you back fifteen clams. It remains to be seen whether or not the new model will work - pay sites tend to be either business-oriented, leaving your boss to pick up the tab, or pornographic - and the Times' previous trial run with a paywall, TimesSelect, didn't really work out that well.

That said, this is just awesome: from Arthur Ochs Sulzberger himself.

A letter from the publisher of The New York Times about the beginning of digital subscriptions in the United States and the rest of the world. [emph. added]

Anyone else remember the famous headline, Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off?