Patrick sends in this BBC report, it claims that news will be properly distributed by file sharing networks by 2010.

"In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those used to swap songs."

"They would cover issues currently ignored by the major news services, said Prof anderson."

"Currently, only news that's reckoned to be of interest to Americans and Western Europeans will be syndicated because that's where the money is," he told the BBC World Service programme, Go Digital.

"But if something happens in Peru that's of interest to viewers in China and Japan, it won't get anything like the priority for syndication.

"If you can break the grip of the news syndication services and allow the news collector to talk to the radio station or local newspaper then you can have much more efficient communications."

I guess this is the big vision of weblogs anyway. This weblog for instance is (for reasons I'm not aware of) banned in China and Saudi Arabia. Empowering people with publishing tools will change the media landscape, I guess there is no doubt, it's a question of how exactly and when.