Under the API the paper will offer 2.8 million articles – every article written since 1981 – with this updated every hour.
Other sites and developers can use the API, in particular by adding dynamic links to the articles or excerpts to their own pages, writes RWW.
The Times’ executive editor Bill Keller has suggested micro-payment systems and full-access subscriptions are being considered for online content.
The paper ended its paid-for access model, TimesSelect, in September 2007.
The New York Times and GateHouse Media have settled their legal case out of court.
GateHouse Media had raised the action against the Times for links found on Boston.com to its local website network.
Slim is reportedly in talks with newspaper about cash investment, which could pay off title’s debts.
Chris Morrison contemplates what would be left behind in the wake should the mighty New York Times fall.
“Most people, including internet journalists, agree that print is the last bastion of the educated essay and the investigative article, he writes.”
Dan Kennedy on how the dispute over online linking between New York Times and GateHouse Media could determine online journalism’s future. “What makes this battle especially dangerous is that the Times and GateHouse are struggling not just for advantage, but for their very survival.”
Bloggers, news sites, search engines, social media sites and aggregators such as Topix and Techmeme, and even innovations such as the Times’ Times Extra homepage could be closed for fear of copyright suits, writes Danny Sanchez.
A list of experts ready to comment on breaking news stories is being compiled from which the paper can get ‘instant op-eds’ after a story breaks, says Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor.
A section of the website will be given over to these op-eds, adds Rosenthal, and readers and opinion writers will be encouraged to react and contribute to the instant feature.
The New York Times has launched its beta news aggregation feature Times Extra. As the screengrab below shows, it makes for a pretty busy page with scrollable links to external, relevant content below each main news item:
The alternative version of the homepage features up to eight links from blogs and other news organisations’ sites beneath each of the top articles.
“The days when content sites were afraid to link to other sites are over,” said Marc Frons, chief technology officer for digital operations at NYTimes, in a release about the launch.
“Times Extra is an important part of our strategy to become a destination for compelling journalism, not only by The New York Times, but by other content providers as well. We want to give our readers a comprehensive view of the news and opinion our editors think is important.”(Not dissimilar to Scott Karp’s argument for a newspaper using link journalism)
Mashable’s Stan Shroeder wants to see how the Times’ algorithm performs in selecting the links and while supporting its decision to link out, is concerned about some of the design elements:
“NYTimes adds boxes with additional sources quite erratically, and I expect many users to get a headache, reverting to the standard view very fast. It would be a pity, though, if this initiative were to fail because of unfortunate design choices,” he writes.
Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, visited The Times for a discussion with editors and members of the paper’s editorial board for a discussion about journalism in the digital age: here’s the transcript. Newmark still reads the print edition of the New York Times over coffee each day.