Blog overload is surfacing. The question of who is going to report the news, and how they will be paid is moving to centerstage of the journalism debate as the importance of blogs and blogging is no longer in question. I say, micropayments and go back to the idea of content flags that "call home" to their creator after you download them. If my current Tribune subscription is $150 something per year, I would easily allocate that amount of money to a micropayment fund, and buy good reads for .001 cent. Who needs the physical entity of the NYTimes, WaPo, or any of the Tribune enterprises? What I will pay for is the reporting...Let me pay less because you won't have to advertise. Your quality of news, your reporter bylines will be your advertising...Blah, Blah, Blog

Who cares where the money is? Some web publishers have values beyond making the most money that they can. What's wrong with that? World of mergers and acquisitions distant for many micro-publishers

FCC and regulation. Here is an interesting blog focused on the FCC and preventing its domination by Parents Television Council. Read on. SpeakSpeak News

Media Bloggers nominated. You can check out the "Freedom of Expression" Blog Award and even vote for one of the organizations from here. Of course, being a Media Blogger, you know which one I voted for....Reporters without Borders Nominates MBA for Freedom of Expression Blog Award * A news item at mediabloggers.org

I have been on the road, and besides being away from the Internet I caught an awful flu bug so I haven't even had the energy to blog. This article provides suggestions for those who get bogged down by blogs and other information some light at the end of the tunnel in the form of information organizers. I have been talking about RSS for a couple of years, and since RSS doesn't work without a viewer, I have been talking about aggregators like Amphetadesk, Newsgator, Technorati, and Bloglines, too. Mark Glaser provides an update on aggregation in this article, noting especially how useful these tools can be for journalists.Human and automated aggregators help make sense of blogosphere