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We’ll be closely following the fallout from the Gray Lady’s decision (which went into effect on Monday) to charge readers for access to their loved/despised columnists (including D.C.’s Eye Street Murderer’s Row: Dowd, Brooks, Tierney, Friedman).

Although the assumption has always been that the NYT’s decision would simply spawn shadow sites that would replicate the columnist’s work for free, these sites aren’t proliferating as much (or at least as obviously) as originally thought. A Bob Herbert column mistakenly appeared on The Age’s (Australia) website but was quickly removed.

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