How do we as bloggers make money of blogging? By not reinventing the wheel, Main Stream Media (MSM) isn’t they are just looking for new grease.

By the end of the 20th century, the AP is sending more than 20 million words per day. As technology improves the way AP collects and disseminates news, the number of bureaus swells to cover every state and statehouse in the United States and more than 90 bureaus overseas. Some 3,500 AP staff members help serve 15,000 news outlets in more than 110 countries.

This is where the deal is going down folks. The  Greensboro News & Record (N & R) is one of the 15,000 news outlets that PAY for content from the AP, repackage it to their audience, then sell their audience to advertisers and marketers. The local media market is the most lucrative, and breaking the news agreggation down to the local level of cooparate media outposts from the state level is where the money has and will continue to hit the bank. Who’s bank remains the question?

Why would the N & R have continue to pay businesses like the AP to do news collecting if a buisness model of "Open Source Journalism" can be be developed that co-opts over 8 million staff members and their content at no cost?

The N & R’s "Public Square" is nothing but classic Main Stream Media spin on what is actually  the new "Private Box" the traditional media is attempting to put the blogoshere in.

A "Public Square " owned and operated for and by private interests is not public.

We should have no interest in building a big  statue of Traditional Media at the center of this "Private Box".

A true "Public Square" would be owned by the public and maintained in the interest of the public. Granted it is surrounded by private buisness that bring value and will always be positioned to capitatize.

What we need is to place the "public" at the head of the long tail, and have MSM accept that they will become the 2nd teir packaged between a 3rd teir of independent content producers.

The "Public" (all content producers) need to own the local aggregators and be provided equal access to  the benefit of capitalizing on all inherent value within.

If 10 men of 6 highly competitive New York NewsPapers can meet and agree to work together…and within 100 years become one of the largest news gathering organizations in the world, what can 8 million people from all over the world accomplish in 10 even 5 years is the question the blogoshere needs to be addressing. 

What we need is an Associated Blog Press.

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