"Information Week posted an interesting account of an academic paper presented at the International World Wide Web Conference last month. The paper, written by four Korean researchers, analyzed 41.7 million Twitter user profiles, 1.47 billion social relations, 4,262 trending topics and 106 million tweets to examine the relationships between tweeters and the distribution of information across the microblogging network. Their conclusion: Twitter isn’t a social network, but something more akin to traditional news media."

Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.

1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety

"The Batavian is an online-only news site in Batavia, N.Y., published by former GateHouse Media executive Howard Owens." In this article, Mr Owens answers questions from Brian Cubbison (syracuse.com).

True/Slant is an original content news network tailored to both the “Entrepreneurial Journalist” and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences. Contributors, consumers and marketers each have a voice on True/Slant.

True/Slant is the digital home for the “Entrepreneurial Journalist.” Knowledgeable and credible contributors anchor and build their digital brands on True/Slant using tools that enable them to easily create content and craft stories filtered through human perspective (not an algorithm).

Jeff Jarvis on entrepreneurial news coverage.

The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week (13.01.10). "Blogs can showcase, discuss and dissect new ideas weeks, even months before journals. In the next few years we’ll see if the Kindle will put a torch to those paperbacks that gather dust on our shelves."

Times Skimmer is a browser-based application that offers a new way to read The New York Times online. The application provides the experience of spreading out a newspaper and paging through it. Times Skimmer offers multiple display options and easy-to-use keyboard shortcuts. The fonts in the application are the same as those used in the printed newspaper.

C.W. Anderson of the Nieman Journalism Lab dusts off his crystal ball and foretells 2010 in all its glory.

Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

Since The Telegraph's highly publicised move to a new newsroom in Victoria nearly 18-months ago its senior editors haven't been shy in espousing the philosophy and the practicalities behind the paper's integrated web and newspaper approach.

The Web’s largest newsroom: Journalists collaborate to curate the news. Winner of the first Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism.

CNN's online presence has received a major face-lift. Some interesting UI and UX enhancements.