USATODAY.com - Can newspapers weather the techno-storm?

I have one word for them -- micropayments. If you haven't read this prescient article from John Perry Barlow, written in the good old "90s," take minute to check out the "ET call home" method of payment for stories and data. It is based on sophisticate encryption, but it would work for me as an avid reader. I would have an e-wallet, and could charge it up with an amount of money and just browse and read with autopay. I presume I would be able to set it up to notify me if the payment was more than a certain amount. The payment would be a tiny amount per page, but with millions of views, you would get rich. n most of the schemes I can project, the file would be "alive" with permanently embedded software that could "sense" the surrounding conditions and interact with them, For example, it might contain code that could detect the process of duplication and cause it to self-destruct. USATODAY.com - Can newspapers weather the techno-storm?: "They were wrong, but this is not about journalism anyway-- it's about consumer empowerment fueled by technological innovation. And if editors and publishers want to keep their journalism franchise -- if they don't want to end up working for Yahoo! or Google -- they're going to have to prove that they are at least as smart in packaging and delivering information as they are in finding and reporting it."