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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.

Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics' Picks.

Now the Times has released a new API offering every article the paper has written since 1981 -- 2.8 million articles.

O, the wonderful world of Web publishing. There’s never a dull moment, that’s for sure. This week has abounded with all kinds of news about acquisitions, applications and product launches — after awhile, it all seems to blend together.

In attempt to straighten it all out, we offer the following synthesis.

Not everything that goes on in Vegas needs to stay there. Namely the 2008 EPpy Awards. Known as one of the most prized and long-running honors for online content —the awardees were announced during the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show hosted in Las Vegas.

Online content is a broad topic indeed, so award recipients ranged from newspapers to blogs and were judged based upon their video, news feeds, unique visitors and more.

Receiving a liberal arts education is often likened to being raised by a village, where access to different voices and perspectives are readily available. Well, now that village is global.

The New York Times has announced a new online initiative called the Knowledge Network, which links Times content with faculty course material for both credit-bearing and continuing education courses.

The walls are coming down. Or at least there are rumors of cracks. It should be happening any moment now. While we wait, let’s consider recent rumblings.