• Paid Content, Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:04 PM

Our neighbors to the north get to be the guinea pigs for the New York Times' long-awaited pay wall for digital content, which will be rolled out in final form globally March 28.

Did we say wall? Actually, it's more like a pay fence (a point first made by Nieman Journalism Lab's Ken Doctor), since there's a fair amount of free content -- 20 article views a month -- available.

Once those 20 views are reached, that's when you gotta start paying up. And, more good news, even if you've reached that limit, if you get to a story through a link from an search engine, social media site or blog, it's still free -- though some engines may have a limit on free links to articles.

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