Listen up, fact fans

Since killing off its idiotic subscription service, TimesSelect, the New York Times has seen traffic to its Opinion section double and overall website traffic grow 10 percent. This is good news for the web and those who use it:

Plans to open up the Wall St. Journal, now part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, will also likely include Google and search in a big way. Traffic to the paid-access financial news site has reached a record high of 2.5M visitors in September 2007, up 36% from July when the deal was announced.