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There are indications that e-books and the reading devices, like Kindle and the Nook, are becoming more mainstream and as a result they are having an interesting impact on the way we interact with content, both online and in print.

This week, web publishing focuses on the ways digital media is making headlines. From the mobile web to new careers, digital media is at the forefront of the media business model.

This week web publishing goes blogging. From intranet corporate behaviors to online newspapers, blogs are making headlines.

In December, Google’s Living Stories, one of the latest Google Labs endeavors, was used in collaboration with the WashingtonPost.com and New York Times to re-purpose content online. In February, Google is opening up Living Stories so that any publisher can adopt its experiment in presenting news online and in real time.

There’s never a dull moment for web publishing, especially in 2010.

Tom Foremski of the Silicon Valley Watcher has continually called for the need of the media engineer -- an individual who is part journalist and part software engineer -- in today’s web publishing industry. Lately, his vision is becoming reality.

As we head into the final weeks of 2009, let’s look back at the year in web publishing. See how some trends emerge and others merely fade away.

Google (news, site) is continuing to revitalize newspapers. They’ll be supplying the developer skills and partnering with The Washington Post and The New York Times to produce Living Stories.

Think fast! Google Fast Flip is here and it's sure to make things interesting for web publishers.

Fast Flip is one of the newest creations from Google Labs. It is a web application that combines the qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.

There's no rest for the weary when it comes to web publishing. From Twitter to mobile news to YouTube, the news industry has many issues to consider when evaluating their presence in news media.

Let's Begin with Twitter. 

Many newspapers already have Twitter feeds with hundreds of thousands of followers. But they're only now just figuring out what it all means. Editor & Publisher recently reported about the ways newspapers are using Twitter to get news out and how they are using others' to get news in.

Web publishing is a tipsy topsy world, full of paradoxes and contradictions. On any given week, the experts of the publishing world tout the benefits of keeping the news free. But that's not this week. No sir-ee. This week free content goes bust.

The topics of web publishing, news media and the future of newspapers continues to be discussed and debated among those in the industry.

What comes first: creativity or technology? Some say you can't have one without the other, while others might claim they are entirely separate concepts. Yet, when it comes to web publishing, it seems that creative technologies go hand in hand. Just ask the New York Times or the Medill School of Journalism. 

This week in Web Publishing brings us some sage advice, courtesy of ReadWriteWeb COO, Bernard Lunn.

He encourages bloggers and journalists to look optimistically to the future, rid ourselves of all the bad elements of what weighs the publishing industry down and keep the parts that make up happy -- namely a strong desire to find the truth, among others.

He also recommends evaluating the reasons we rely and respect true journalism and ultimately accept that it costs money. "Until we as an industry can do a better job at monetizing quality at correlating quality with revenue," Lunn says "the sensible business decision is simply to go after page views, any page views."

Sometime today, The New York Times is supposed to launch two new citizen journalism sites focused on local communities.

"The Local" will appear on the Times' Web pages with sites dedicated to three communities in New Jersey -- Maplewood, South Orange and Millburn -- and two Brooklyn neighborhoods, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.