Just loved the title..

New York Times uses Amazon to process archive and reformat.

 I have been looking closely at the Amazon web services initiative for the past year and find it very interesting. Folks are really starting to do some fantastic things with it – and this post from Open, the New York Times developers blog, is a really eye opener. I especially like the part where they run the entire process over to fix a formatting issue. 

Topix reboots

The local news site Topix has relaunched today. Combining citizen journalism with major newspaper partners, the site looks like one to track.