Image via CrunchBase The annual list of 100 essential websites from The Guardian indicates how the web has matured.  The list is dominated by web services rather than web sites, reflecting how the internet has shifted from a platform for consumption to one for collaboration. The darling of 2009, Twitter, even gets its own mini-section, and includes services such as Twitter Tim.es, which creates your personal new site based on

This short talk by Kevin Kelly, executive editor at Wired magazine, at the Web 2.0 Summit looks at where the web came from and where it is going: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.746114&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Thanks to BoingBoing)

One of the questions raised at the ICA pre-conference on new media is over how hyperlinks can structure knowledge. Michael Zimmer, Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for 2007-2008, offers a provoking idea, exploring how the French philosopher Diderot employed “textual hyperlinks” in his Encyclopédie. This was a work published in France between 1751 and 1772. Zimmer highlighted how Diderot sought to bypass censorship

The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients. The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment. Several projects – Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones – focus developing mobiles as platforms for news, especially in parts of the world

The BBC’s youth TV channel, BBC Three, is looking to reinvigorate itself with “a brand new look for the channel and a huge step forward in multi-platform”. The channel has struggled to make much of an impact – its viewer share is just 2.6 percent amongst its target 25-34 audience. The aim of the relaunch is to be the first BBC channel to change from a linear service to a