The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
Demanding Payment for Online News Would Actually Cost News Services More in Advertising Dollars And Anyway The News Belongs to All, Not to Mega Journalism Entities
The whole payment for online news reading would actually cost the participants money according to a report by Martin Langeveld at Nieman Journalism Lab.
Simple math shows that the low receptiveness of current and former payment schemes -- Wall Street Journal subscription and NYT's former "pass" (remember when we couldn't read Paul Krugman because we wouldn't cough up $50 a year?) according to the analyst.
See: "Paying for online news: Sorry, but the math just doesn’t work".
There could be a scheme under which it would work, I think, with the help of the FBI (also once again paid by you and I Taxpayer). More on that later. I need to find some sources on info I remember reading a while ago.
But in more news Robert Niles of Knight Digital Media Center goes even further than my earlier post "Who's News is it Anyway? (Should We Pay For Online News? pt 2)" and says in "No one owns the news " meaning (from what I understand) that news should be free to everyone and he's right. Beyond the news that our government makes, the rest is a commodity that shouldn't really belongs to everyone. Mr. Niles says what the big news media chiefs have said (quoting Murdoch and AP's Dean Singleton's claims that news aggregators are stealing their content by linking to them) is control. I agree with Journalist Niles, and think the control the captured eye from each other, but most importantly from bloggers and alternative news and comment options is the most dangerous part of the pay for online news scam for our nation.
There is a reason why the news distribution venue is called the fourth branch of government. I believe that both business and most government leaders would prefer to keep the control of that branch in the hands of a priviledged few who understand the worries and cares of the elite and those have a chance to get into the ranks of the elite if they play their cards right.
Given the mainstream's tendency to hide unfortunate truths that keep the rich and powerful from grabbing more power and wealth, it is absolutely vital for the rest of us to have free access to news and the freedom to relay that news (in our own words, of course) and Robert Niles affirms what I have heard before, but didn't want to proclaim in the basis of one source, all the news belongs to us (All the News Is Belong to Us!) and can't be RIAA'd (actually DMCA'd) away from us. (My former post linked above stated what I thought should be self evident that at least any news based on actions, decisions, and pronouncements by our government should belong to all of us.)
Maybe we can call the takeover of news by the masses the "News Print Revolution". I do hope it will be non-violent. I'd cry if the blood from thousands of blogs ran down the alleyways of the Internet and bits and pieces of once stately mainstream news sites lay as piles of rubble all over Al Gore's dream. (Yes, "Al Gore's dream" is tongue in cheek. Though he was helpful in getting some very important funding through Congress, and never claimed to have invented the Internet, it is many Americans' delusion that he did think of himself as the father of our digital pathways.)
(The .Common Sense link is to another post here and you may have already read it, but the others are to a couple of great articles by people who are better experienced than I for explaining it the journalism business and journalistic rights.)
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