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Both to try to make a profit from their online content and to boost the nearly-non-existent value of subscribing to AOL, various magazines in the AOL Time-Warner stable are all going to go to subscription access only on-line<\/a>. No more Time <\/i>essays, no more People <\/i>papparizi, no more Sunset <\/i>recipes except for those who either pay or are hardcopy magazine subscribers.<\/p>\n

“Information wants to be free” is a nice sentiment, but it don’t pay the stockholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both to try to make a profit from their online content and to boost the nearly-non-existent value of subscribing to AOL, various magazines in the AOL Time-Warner stable are all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7062,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/the_way_of_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":499,"position":0},"title":"The way of the dinosaurs","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Nov-04 8:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"AOL seems to be in a long, downward spiral. 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