The 'About' page at the lab's website has Benton's basic bio. His Twitter handle is @jbenton. The lab's is @NiemanLab.

BTW, the Lab published a late December series on predictions for journalism in 2011.

Nora Young, host of CBC Radio's technology show Spark, led the conversation. She tweets as @nora3000, but there wasn't much in her stream in the hours after the event.

Roger Cullman took photographs of the event, which can be seen on Flickr.

J-Source live-blogged the event. The Twitter hashtag was #cjfforums.

The other generous souls who live-tweeted the event include @sarah_millar, @boyreporter, @kkryski , @sklive, @Mastheadmag, among others. Thanks very much! This shut-in is grateful! :)

@sarah_millar beat me to the punch with her own Storify treatment of the event. :)

I was unable to attend (not feeling great), but I've pulled together some tweets from the above named sources and others. I'll offer context and deep, deep insight where applicable. As I understand it from a distance, Benton had eight main points about what he and his colleagues at the lab will be watching for:

The timeshifting thing seems to make sense. If you're an active Twitter user such as myself, you can't read everything that's interesting in real time. There's too much. While a smartphone is great when mobile, it's not an ideal reading platform. A tablet might be a useful device for when you just want to chill and consume. If you're thinking of spending on devices in 2011, here's a CTV.ca story I wrote that published in early January: Technologies that will flourish in 2011.

I need more information on what Benton was getting at with his second trend. It didn't clearly come through in the tweets.

We'll see. Do people value magazine stories enough as information/entertainment to drop 99 cents on a single story (or whatever the price turns out to be)? A good story provides at least 10 minutes of reading entertainment. A song might only be three minutes, and you'll listen to it three times.