Goodbye Gutenberg: Sensing the Change

• Harvard fellow Jon Palfreman on how the Internet might help save journalism. Key quote: “Before the Web, storytelling was platform specific. Newspapers and magazines focused on text and photos, radio told stories with audio, and television dealt with moving pictures and sounds. Each platform has its tools and specialized skill sets, advantages and disadvantages. The Web forces these platforms to integrate. Today’s best media Web sites are multimedia productions combining text, stills, audio and video.”

10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1

• A breakdown of the key new features in the latest version of the blog platform, WordPress. Version 2.1 will be released sometime today on WordPress.org.

Beltway Blogroll: Blog Readership on Capital Hill

• The National Journal breaks down which blogs Capital Hill staffers read the most often.

Five Link Building Strategies That Work

• Article from the great Copyblogger about how to get more links to your blog.

Politico to Launch Tomorrow

• New online-only news outlet covering the whole politics thing will launch on January 23rd (tomorrow).  I’m sure we’ll do some sort of review.