TIME.com has hired Craig Duff, an Emmy-winning video journalist, as director of multimedia. Duff announced the role on his blog. He will manage the site’s video offerings and train journalists.

The Editors Weblog reports that electronic paper, one of the newspaper industry’s most longed-for innovations, could be available to newspapers as early as next year. Ryosuke Kuwata, vice president of E Ink Corp’s Asia-Pacific region, said today in an interview that developers are getting close to unveiling the technology. According to Kuwata, newspaper companies have made “significant moves over the past year” towards investing in the electronic newspaper. The first commercial e-paper, he says, will be tested near the end of this year and launched some time in the second half of 2009.

Do watch the powerful video about Guantanamo Bay published on the new American News Project site. The site says it is dedicated to defending and promoting the public interest “through high-quality investigative video journalism”. In the video I watched, Steven Wax, a federal public defender, talks about his work representing seven Guantanamo prisoners.

Another sign of the likely future for journalism, at least during the week: an online only daily newspaper. Fairfax Media has launched a daily in Perth in Western Australia. This follows the launch of an online only daily in Brisbane in Queensland in March 2007.

Caviar is available in some posh restaurants in London. It ranges between 65 and 135 quid an ounce! An indication that some people in this city have money to splash about.

People are complaining about the cost of petrol, at 1.20 pounds a litre. They should complain more about coffee, which costs at least 2 pounds. Every cup I’ve had has been uniformly dreadful, lacking in taste and flavour. And beer is 3 pounds a pint, which works out at more than 5 pounds a litre for lukewarm and flat brown water. Petrol requires a lot of processing from oil. Coffee and beer require minimal ingredients and are probably 80 per cent profit. No wonder London has so many pubs and coffee shops.

Twitter has been getting some publicity lately, as people consider its value as a reporting tool. Here are some articles on the subject from BuzzMachine, Scobleizer, MediaShift, TechChrunch,Online Journalism Blog, and Journalism.co.uk.