Salon's 8 Hour Day
Posted on August 18, 2004
A couple times a week I poke my head in at salon.com, take a look around, read the book review and a few articles --- great writing. I'm not so pleased about having to view an ad to get access to the articles but I understand they have to make money somehow and the quality you get at salon is usually well worth 20 seconds of ignoring the screen and clicking next. I don't mind doing that once, but twice in the same day? That's pushing it and makes a mockery of the words "day pass". Turns out now the cookie salon gives you is now only valid for 8 hours, yet with the help of the wayback machine I can see that as early as February this year salon's day pass was 18 hours, not exactly 24 hours but better then only 8.
To be fair if I ever paid for a website's "premium content" salon.com would be a shoe-in and would most likely do that if I lived in North America and could get the free magazine subscriptions.
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Came across your site on a Google search to see what people are saying about the Salon site pass. You should check out the benefits that go to people outside North America as well, such as the music downloads:
http://www.salon.com/premium/benefit/
::posted by: Sumana at December 9, 2004 04:41 AM
