There are some interesting discussion seeds in a post on TechPresident reflecting a recent session on journalism in a time of increasingly open government data.

Some thought-leaders (Jeff Jarvis, Tim O'Reilly, for instance) suggest the "let's get them" era is subsiding and that journalism will have to be more collaborative with government to distribute data. At the very least, some different thinking needs to emerge.

It won't be a matter of pulling punches but having more than punches in the arsenal, they suggest.

"I think we're at an inflection point where we're moving away from this model of advocacy which is about making people wrong and catching people out and moving to a model of advocacy that's about what we want to build together," O'Reilly told writer Nick Judd.

"Figuring out how to change that dynamic, but retain credibility and usefulness as government watchdogs, may be the first step towards changing this system," Judd writes. If mainstream media are part of the problem, then they are obviously in this case part of the solution.

Martin Moore, writing in the IdeaLab for Mediashift, identifies and explains the value of linked data for a newsroom.

Linked data isn't necessarily well-defined generally. Moore clears it up: " Linked data is a way of publishing information so that it can easily -- and automatically -- be linked to other, similar data on the web."  Thus, a reference to Paris is linked in such a way as to make clear it's Paris, France, and not Paris, Texas or Paris Hilton.

The benefits Moore sees are significant: better SEO recognition, better site location, more opportunity for you and others to build services around links, bait for the firewall, and so on.

But the overall point Moore is making is the importance of layering content and making the journalism newsrooms produce more valuable as a resource. It's another initiative newsrooms will need to take to play in the sphere.