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Geekery Today: posts from December 2nd, 2001
WOMB Rally for Reproductive Rights in Michigan (posted 2 December 2001)
For any readers I may have in Michigan: A while ago I ran across the page for Women Outraged by Michigan Bureaucracy (WOMB), an active pro-choice group spearheaded by Flint feminists. They’re doing work around the Michigan state government’s hostility towards abortion access, as well as general feminist organizing. Check them out!
The End of Free (posted 2 December 2001)
The End of Free is a weblog chronicling the dying of free/ad-supported content and the transition to fee services "and beyond." (Here’s hoping that the beyond includes a good micropayment scheme in the very near future, because if it keeps going the way of subscription services, the prospects are grim.
For further reading:
- GT 10/5/2001 Salon makes itself more useless to web readers
- GT 6/9/2001 Feed and Suck go under
- GT 3/23/2001 Salon announces death of free content on the web with the introduction of their for-pay premium service
