A cool whiff of reality has apparently blown through the Washington Post offices. They announced yesterday that they’re going to start including links to other sources in their online articles, even to competitors. That’s great. It brings real value to their pages, value that users otherwise will seek elsewhere.

So, hats off to the WaPo. Long term, though, I wonder if we’re going to look to the newspapers, third parties, or one another as our aggregators. In any case, we’re going to want newspapers to recognize that their stories, no matter how good they are, gain yet more value when they come with links that point us to more and more and more and more information.

The Boston Globe is running a terrific series on how collection agencies run justice into the ground…and how our justice system doesn’t give a crap. It’s the type of article that newspapers pride themselves on, as they should. But as I read it and appreciate it, it doesn’t seem like an insupperable argument for newspapers. [Tags: media boston_globe washington_post everything_is_miscellaneous]

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