Just about anything really. Here's my lame idea: Just link to international and national news articles, since it's easy enough to search Google. Might as wel

Just about anything really. Here's my lame idea: Just link to international and national news articles, since it's easy enough to search Google. Might as well link to Craig's List too. What's harder is local news, so charge subscribers to get access local news now. Articles older than a month become free (since in many cases, news is worth more now than later) so you can still serve up articles from the various search engines. Also, allow several subscription plans---let people buy an article, or maybe a week's access, or a full year. And don't be so invasive with the sign-up form. Also, don't be afraid of linking out of the site. Link to sources. Link to the laws (it's avaiable). Link to previous articles you've written! (I think that would be a no brainer, but apparently newspapers have negative brains or something). Serve up local ads to local residents (easy with GeoIP), and use something like Google AdSense for anyone non-local. That way, you have an advertising advantage over Google for local businesses and you aren't wasting their advertising money showing ads to someone 3000 miles away (unless they want to---that's always an option). Dump the presses. The money you save there can be used to hire reporters (who will hopefully refrain from just pasting up press releases). Dumb? Smart? I don't know. But it's certainly a plan and one that might get you more than 35 subscribers.