Basically, the site has re-launched with an emphasis on hyper-local citizen journalism, forums and blogs--all the gnarly community bits newspaper find it so hard to do.
Rich has a neat lift of comments on the relaunch, re-posted here for your convenience:
Topix.com homes in on citizen journalists (USA Today)
Topix taps Web readers to bolster local news (Reuters)
News aggregation site employs human eyes (AP)
Topix Transforms Into Community Generated Local News Site (Search Engine Land)
News site puts readers in editor's seat (SF Gate)
Topix Reboots As a CitJ-News Search Hybird (Paid Content)
Topix Aims For Citizen Journalists (TechCrunch)
Topix reinvents itself as citizen journalist site (Cnet)
Topix Lets Community Edit the News (Somewhat Frank)
Topix.net Rebrands & Turns to Human Editors (Chip Griffin)
Topix.com Does the Obvious Thing (Mashable)
Topix Becomes a Socially Editable Online NewsPaper (Startup Meme)
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