Podcasting Profits

MediaPost reports that Yahoo has announced a leap into original content, featuring former war reporter Kevin Sites. Sites, a veteran of CNN and NBC, plans to leave for Africa on Wednesday. He will spend the next year traveling to 36 war-torn corners of the world, and reporting on how current events affect people’s lives.  ……

Jeff Jarvis fosters an interesting discussion about what Roger Ailes’ new role in charge of local fox stations means.  As the man who spawned Fox News Channel, he clearly has demonstrated success at innovating.  And Jeff thinks he might do the same for local news: What if, instead, a station tore into local issues and…

Having just returned from 10 days away from the office on business and vacation, I’m left to catch up on several thousand blog posts.  So here are my notes as I blaze through them at a blistering pace, no doubt missing some good stuff, but hopefully enjoying the foam on the cappuccino (OK, I don’t…

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

Tom Formeski over at SiliconValleyWatcher reports that the rumored Moreover deal is done and the buyer isn’t someone anyone I know was guessing: VeriSign is about to announce it acquired Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator. The acquisition price is around $25m according to SVW sources. I have to confess that I don’t…