I have always had mixed feelings about requiring registration to view free content on web sites. Adrian Holovaty blogs a recent interview he gave with BusinessWeek about the topic. He's not in favor.

The issue just came up again for me this week. While reading CNNSI on Monday I noticed a small item about Ron Zook being fired from the University of Florida. The article was small and mentioned a source at the Gainesville Sun. So I headed over to the Gaineville Sun. Of course it was front page news, I clicked on the link, sorry you need to register. No thanks, I'll just wait another five minutes and read some more at CNNSI.com.

So the Gainesville Sun denied their advertisers some impressions and I probably won't be going back there any time soon.

Here is the original BusinessWeek article. And a blog entry from Matt Haughley on the subject.