Reading Steve's recent post about the future of newswire services such as PR Newswire and BusinessWire I can't help but think of Bob Wyman's recent post about edgeio and structured blogging. In his post Bob talks about how edgeio is differentiating itself from 'walled garden' services such as Craigslist by collecting public data and aggregating it.

This is very similar to what Steve was referring to, a new PR wire service that collects data from corporations and other sources and then aggregates/pushes it to end users. If users started tagging each release and pinging the appropriate server it could easily be done. But how is that different or any more difficult than what we can do now with Technorati or PubSub and a few good watchlists? It's not, that's the thing. If somebody would just focus some resources to made it dead-easy to use then they'd have something.

The big issue is trusting the source, we can't just have everybody issuing a corporate press release can we :-) Just ask Emulex about that. That technical issue should be a small hurdle though. The big hurdle is getting more journalists and newsrooms to use RSS.