Newsquest rolls out new regional newspaper websites and now requires registration for its sites’ famously, er, robust comments sections.

Scott Karp: "…now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone, what [is] the real ROI of this registration wall is for the New York Times and others sites, many of them newspapers, that require registration."

"It’s about time the industry faced reality: Registration doesn’t work. The information gathered is largely a database of lies. … Registration data is only useful to us when it’s also useful to the user."

Funny parenthetical aside from Seamus McCauley: "Jeff Jarvis today cites Tom Friedman’s recent contention (NYT: due to a strategic error on their part, sub req’d) …"