links for 2006-12-04

Mark Cuban tells local newspapers they should become the tail effects by posting every last local interview on the web. “Who else has the amazing library of great stuff that you have accumulated over the years?”

New York Times public editor Byron Calame looks at what motivates journalists. “Intellectual scoops,” he says, are increasingly being seen as vital. But that’s only the first bullet point…

Aggregators have scaled, but not micoropub content producers, because consumers prefer unbundled products that allow them to trim the things that they don’t need. This means aggregators disproportionately benefit from long tail businesses.

Is the end nigh for “Enterprise Content Management Systems”, with all their “tremendous problems with scalability, flexibility and vendor lock in”? I certainly hope so.