"Here's our news; take it or leave it" - "Be Linkable or Die"

A classic, I know, but as I repeat similar ideas all day long, here is Jay Rosen's quote in The NY Times article:

The fragmentation of news online is part of a larger trend of moving editorial power into the hands of the audience, Mr. Rosen said. "The old system was, 'Here's our news; take it or leave it,' " he said. "Now, sovereignty over the story is shifting."

A good analysis in this article on RSS readers, aggregators and search engines (by the way Dave, sorry for not having congratulated you yet for your 2 Million weblogs watched in Technorati, let me do it now...).

I wish more publishers like the New York times would be "blog friendly" with free content and archives, links in their articles and permalinks. As Mary puts it, "Linking and Linking Expression are Key". I also like the way Dan puts it, "be linkable or die".

When I quote a press article that points to a news source that is either not online or password protected, I keep uploading pdf scans available on my blog, until a publisher says something, which has not happened yet but I know I am not allowed to do that, so please "BE LINKABLE" !

Thanks Pascal for pointing me to this NY Times article