Popular on Twitter: Soylent is people, Civil Beat opens its doors, Folio names its “10 under 30”

[Early every afternoon Eastern time, we’ll be highlighting the most-talked-about links in the future-of-news corner of Twitter. What are news nerds buzzing about? Here are today’s top 10, gathered via The Hourly Press. It’s like being on Twitter all day, without actually having to be on Twitter all day. —Josh]

Guess what it’s made of? Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy-editing tool

“The iPad Election”: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile

A photo roundup of some post-election newsrooms from across the US

Arrington: Jason Calacanis is threatening to sue us

Washington Post looking at starting new hyperlocal sites

Rising Stars: Folio’s “10 Under 30” list

Honolulu Civil Beat is free today and Thursday

Google TV exec says broadcasters “misunderstand” its online TV platform

Dave Winer: My notes for today’s meeting at the Library of Congress

Newsweek’s top editor post: Still waiting to be filled

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”

Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income

“I think risk aversion is the thing that’s killing our business right now.”

Jeff Jarvis

The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news

“If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed.”