In pro­fil­ing a num­ber of ‘online jour­nal­ism entre­pre­neurs’, The New York Times does a good job of pro­vid­ing a rel­a­tively cliché-free, high-level overview of the cur­rent state of online news pub­lish­ing.

The arti­cle looks at the “new breed” of blog-based jour­nal­ists, a few busi­ness mod­els, and the prob­lems asso­ci­ated with adver­tis­ing online.

There’s noth­ing new here for those who already have a pass­ing inter­est in pub­lish­ing (or blog­ging, for that mat­ter), but I did find this obser­va­tion on web-based entre­pre­neur­ship rather nice:

You can’t call it a dot-com boom — there is not much cap­i­tal, there are no par­ties with catered sushi and no one is expect­ing to get rich. But this gen­er­a­tion of start-ups does share at least one trait with its 1990s pre­de­ces­sors: a con­vic­tion that they’re the van­guard of an unfold­ing revolution.

via More Intel­li­gent Life