Speaking of “sustainable” business models, one of the big things I’ve been looking into recently is the fate of newspapers. With the advertising firehose drying up, it looks like the old brick and mortar newspaper business is having a hard time standing up on two legs.

Everyone is looking for how newspapers can survive the emerging digital economy, but I think a bigger question is whether they should survive in their current form.

I’ll leave that for another day, for now take some time to read MediaShift’s look at alternative business models for newspapers.