Thankfully, John Hodgman bring some sane perspective to the process.

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”
—Samuel Goldwyn

PaidContent.org reports that The Huffington Post is launching Twitter editions, the primary purpose of which is “to harness the social networking aspects of the site to create a real-time news service for each of HuffPo’s 19 sections.”

Real-time news, eh? You can get that over on my NewsNow FriendFeed.

Real-time politics? Yep, got that too.

Real-time humor? Click here and join the other 2,400+ subscribers.

Real-time in-depth opinion writing? Done and done.

Hey, Airianna: You nailed down $25 million in funding 16 months ago. Can I get a piece of the action?

I made the move from magazine publishing to Web communications back in 1996, and it was not a minute too soon: Today, AdAge reports (and HuffPo comments) that last year, and for the first time ever, more advertising dollars were spent online than were spent on magazines.

CNet reports.