I can’t help but wonder whether the recently announced auction for Alliance-Atlantis and sale of CCNMatthews are at least in part inspired by the desire of the sellers to get clear of the impact that Web 2.0 will have on their industries. Alliance-Atlantis because of the growth of IPTV and CCNMatthews because of what I would have thought was the inevitably diminishing importance of formal newswire services. As the former, my mesh buddies disagree. I’ll confess I’m not a close observer of the industry, but still ….