NY Times “Meter Model” Coming in 2011

Slate’s Take on NY Times Announcement

I’m already sick of the Pandora 40 hours a month limit for free use, now the NY Times wants me to meter me too!

It’s not that I want everything for free, although it would be nice, when I pay for something I want something I can keep.  I don’t get to keep the songs Pandora streams to me, I can’t even pick a song I want to listen too! If I wanted to rent songs, I do it from a service where I get all the songs I want, like Napster or Rhapsody. I don’t use those services because I can keep the songs I downloaded.

The metering model is like just a subscription service with a really big carrot.

Sorry, NY Times and Pandora, but once the carrot is gone, I’m gone. We’ll see who wins in the end. Right now, I think I’ve got the momentum, and the this new model you’re hoping will work, won’t.