Good magazine strengthened their edit team today with the promotion of three veteran staffers and the addition of two new editors.  Editor-in-chief Zach Frechette announced the moves and is confident the changes will bolster the title’s value for readers:

These additions to the team represent our first significant investment in the editorial product in a number of years.  With new voices helping us add depth in key content areas, the goal is to transition from a well-curated selection of the most interesting people and ideas moving the world forward to a vital resource for those people that helps them achieve their goals.

Read on to see the changes taking place at Good.

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Paste magazine needs assurances that Twitter is more than just a waste of time, so its set about compiling top 10 lists of the best microbloggers out there. Yesterday, the magazine released its list of the top 10 magazines to follow on Twitter.

Topping the list are Wired (@Wired) and Good magazine (@GOODfeed), with favorite Tweets such as “Q: How many helium balloons would it take to lift a house? A: http://is.gd/Jht5″ (from Wired) and “You Stay Classy, G. Gordon Liddy http://ow.ly/aqiw” (that’s a recent Good Tweet).

Smaller pubs like beer magazine Draft (@draftmag) — home to FishbowlNY contributor Noah Davis — indie music magazine Under The Radar (@Under_Radar_Mag), and hip hop/electronica publication Urb (@Urb@URBMAG) also got a shout outs from Paste.

Please hold while we update our Twitter feed.

Rolling Stone went small. Good went tiny (if only for one issue). Hearst Corporation‘s Good Housekeeping thought, “Screw it. We’re getting bigger.”

Starting with the January 2010 issue, the magazine will celebrate its 125th anniversary by increasing its size 10 percent. The new dimensions: 8-1/4 x 10-7/8 inches (up from 7-7/8 x 10-1/2 inches).

Considering magazines are responsible for the destruction of 63 million trees a year in the United States alone, we’re not sure a bigger issue is really what we need.

The magazine will raise its cover price and drop its rate base from 4.6 to 4.3 million.

Good, the Los Angeles-based startup for “people who give a damn,” has made it to its 3rd issue, and already has the gumption (nay, balls) to put out a “media issue.” They seem to have a fan in Vanity Fair‘s Graydon Carter, who contributes a foreword-style essay on his favorite all-time magazines before Good editors pick 51 of theirs. A rock-and-roll style review: