Time for a change: The Associated Press as Napsterized news

Future of news. Trouble on the horizon for AP? What is information worth and who is going to pay. I think I agree with the writers here. APs new direction sounds like they are expecting most MSM to rollover and stop doing any reporting, and just be content wrappers. Look at Technorati to see how "taxonomies and keywording schemes" are being implemented in their use of tags that integrate with Del.ici.ous and Flickr. Time for a change: The Associated Press as Napsterized news: "The 21st Century news business needs a peer-to-peer network that lets local operations drive cost out of their non-local news packages, divert resources to local web content creation and operate on a level playing field with bloggers, citizen journalists and internet pure plays."