If I cannot sindicate my sources to my own sindicator, that tool is quite limited, if I can, then we can go a kind of piracy 2.0 because I understand it would be much about links and sources.

I liked very much this approach, no matter what and I share most of what it states.

Regarding “the ethical issue of reporters and editor getting paid to deliver their wisdom to select customers,” these staffers would be responding to specific requests outside of their regular assignments. Even if they were paid a bonus for this outside work, I don’t see an ethical issue. Regular Times users would continue to get the daily report that editors assemble, using their judgment and balancing space limitations. Nothing would be withheld from the report and reserved for TimesPlus subscribers.

Regarding how TimesPlus would actually operate, individual requests made via online forms would be computer-compiled and -sorted so that the same question asked, say, a thousand times (or more), would require one database-supported answer.

Second, the allure of the mighty database algorithm that connects individual preferences to a precise bit of content reminds me of the old line about shale oil in Wyoming. The potential of shale oil is great. And always will be.

Of course, doing so presumes that your journalists have expertise that the public values. That’s why it is so disheartening to see news organizations laying off experienced, knowledgeable staff members. Those folks are, or at least could be, valuable assets.

This is one idea. What else you got?