Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital By Tom Spurgeon
* Sloane Leong pays tribute to the just-completed Octopus Pie. I think that one will stick around as a story of the year; it's not broadly impactful or controversial, but I think Meredith Gran's multi-year saga stands in for an entire generation of webcomics makers, and for an entire group of long serials. My hunch is it will feel more symbolic as time goes on, something towards which to point.