If you can get past the self-interests in the post (ahem, it's a vendor of the proposition it makes), there's an interesting premise inside the Publish2 argument that newspapers should worry less about acquiring wire services and focus instead on linking out to them ---- in essence, becoming an aggregator for their communities, a reliable one-stop locale for the meaningful information on an issue or story.
The link economy is getting plenty of endorsements at the moment as a possible option in an evolving media economy in which it's becoming more difficult to buy what you need. Just create your own newswire of links, it argues.
