While the debate on the Wall Street Journal’s planned micro-payment scheme goes
on, I thought I’d drop a reminder on how to read the Journal’s paid content for
free. If you are a “traditional” reader, starting from the home page, you’ll
see a lot of grey “key” icons, all indicating articles behind a pay-wall.
Of course nowadays many of us don’t even read the front page, we’re using social filtering: let what’s important find us through links from our primary sources: blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook updates from people we follow. But when you follow a link like this: Banks sell stock to repay TARP – it;s really frustrating to find that all you can read is a teaser, with a prompt: Yeah, right. But don’t give up! Whichever way you arrive to protected WSJ articles, they are actually available for free reading. All you have to do is select / copy the article’s title, drop it into a Google search box, then click on the relevant entry from the search results:
Happy reading! 
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