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Free content is all the rage. Firewalls are falling. NYTimes.com and FT.com are already there. WSJ.com is next. At AdFreak, our searing wit and probing insight (mainly in posts I don’t write) have always been free. So, we’re going one step further … by paying people to read AdFreak. There are still some particulars to work out. For example, which nation’s currency should we use? Romania’s leu is most attractive. I broached the subject with my editor, who wanted to know where I got his e-mail address and why I won’t stop bothering him.

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