Community Journalism

A couple of finance junkies with an entrepreneurial drive have created a Tip'd, which combines the best of Salshdot and Digg.

It encourages bloggers and editors to pitch their own stories too, which is fine, but the quality of the site will be dependent on preventing blowhards from hogging all the oxygen.

Content aggregation makes a lot of sense, and adding community can only add value, but all content aggregation sites ultimately depend on content originators. As the latter are under enormous economic pressure from the former, one may well ask without impertinence what will happen to the content aggregators when they've put the content originators out of business.

They'll have to create their own content, thereby skewing their business models.

It would be a lot simpler if the content originators got into the content aggregation business of their own accord.