The Guardian starts charging?

In the comments on the post below this, Harry mentions the prospect of the Guardian website going 'pay-per-view'. I suspect it's in response to this article on Guardian Unlimited today, but before we all start blogging about the sky falling, there isn't going to be much change.

From what I can tell, access to articles is still going to be free, but if you pay you can either get the site ad-free, or as a kind of 'virtual Guardian' with articles laid out on the screen like they are in the paper itself (which will no doubt be useful to anyone with a giant printer). Also, crosswords and some of the email services will now be charged for, but not The Fiver, which is the only email service I get from them, so I don't mind.

So, nothing much to worry about - though I do wonder just what the bloggers of the world would have to write about if they couldn't link to Guardian articles.