Bad Miami Herald. No donut.

[unixronin]

The Miami Herald has, sheeplike, followed after many other major newspapers in requiring registration to read their online edition.  They're not even doing their registration themselves in-house; they're outsourcing it to realcities.com, which seems from what I can tell to be some kind of giant 'net advertising hegemony.  No thanks, Miami Herald, I don't think I want these guys having my personal information just so I can read Dave Barry's RSS feed.

So, PLONK it goes.

Comments

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

If you haven't already heard of it, check out bugmenot.com. Check out their terms of use and the registration page which any employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration must fill out before using the site. It's a hoot.

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Ditto this. Bugmenot is teh shiznit, as the kiddos would say... I understand there are even firefox/mozilla plugins that will automatically use the bugmenot login info.

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

Bugmenot is indeed teh bomb. But the Firefox plugin just opens up the page in a popup ... nothing as cool as automatically looking up and filling in the reg info. Maybe someday.

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Ahh. Too bad, that would be nice. Don't use Firefox, so I've never seen the plugin...

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Actually, the new version does it automagically. If the login doesn't work, select the Bugmenot feature again and the window stays until you tell it to go away.

[secretagentmoof]

You can always add dave_barry_feed to your friends list.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That is the RSS feed. It gets you headings and one-liner summaries, which send you to the Miami Herald and its realcities.com registration for the actual column.