» JD Lasica offers up his list of the top ten tech transformations of 2005. The first: "1) The edges gain power. From the video and music worlds to politics and culture, power is increasingly flowing away from the media, from the political elites and from the corporate suits and into the hands of ordinary users who are collectively wielding more influence in all walks of life, mostly thanks to the Internet. The forces of freedom are steadily chipping away at the power of the forces of control. It's pure beauty."

The next few: 2) Citizens media takes off; 3) The rise of Web 2.0; 4) Google grows into a collossus. To the post for the full list.

» Mark Hamilton on the news that WashingtonPost.com has expanded the timespan its articles remain publically accessible from 14 to 60 days: "That’s an interesting move for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that WaPo has just increased the number of pages it can put ads on by 428 per cent, not something you can easily do with a print project."

» Jonathan Dube presents his list of most-read articles from 2005. See the end of the post for his lists from 2001-2004.

» Paul Grabowicz's Citizen Journalism in Action: "When Seattle-area media needed to capture the scene inside an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at the local airport, they turned to passengers -- not just for interviews but for images of the frightening experience captured by the passengers on their video and cell-phone cameras..."