On Monday, AdAge's Nat Ives wrote about the announcement that Yahoo! would be adding some content from The Week to its Yahoo! Finance pages - the first time the Internet company has made a move like this. So who wins out here? Does The Week, which prides itself on being a magazine chock full of what went on in that particular week, make a play for some new readers, or does Yahoo! snag some content from a print publication as a way to expand its readership. Obviously you could argue that both succeed here, perhaps solving the problem that I said existed for the magazine - its schedule - but at face value it looks like a can't miss. If the publication is all it's said to be, who would argue about having more content available to them through a portal that most are already using.

This morning, David pinged me about Private Radio's Google News Report. I had forgotten all about it after seeing it on Jeff's site back in June, but I think it's definitely worth keeping under your hat, or at least in your bookmarks. At the very least, it's perhaps helpful in figuring out a bit of the logic behind what stories stay and go on the Google News portal, and what sources are used more regularly than others. Just thought I'd file a followup, as it's definitely a useful tool if you're into this sort of thing.

This morning, after the announcement that Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court had been pulled back, NBC's David Gregory was on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show doing his usual interview, but this time with a specific topic to cover. He specifically wondered if this announcement wasn't "timed" for release today, with the potential that other statements would be made about the ongoing CIA leak investigation concerning White House officials - therefore burying the former story.

Just minutes later, even before Gregory was off the air, "Imus" news guy Charles McCord read a statement that clearly spelled out that no other announcement would be made regarding the CIA leak investigation, which completely shut down Gregory's theory. Good move, Charles. You get my props for the day.

See, the instant news cycle does serve a good purpose, whether or not you agree with what the administration is doing or not. Now if we could only get instant answers to all of our questions...

Reuters reported this morning that Sean McManus, the head of CBS Sports, has been named the new CBS News boss, taking the role currently held by Andrew Heyward.

Over at HD Beat, Matt Burns writes about the promotion being run by New York City-area public radio station WNYC as part of its fund drive. If you make a donation to the station by 7pm tonight (that's Monday, October 24), and meet the various rules and regulations, you can enter to win a Sony Qualia 006 television (Engadget review here), which currently runs somewhere in the vicinity of $10,000 or so. Or, you could just enter the contest and try and win.

Over at Lost Remote, Steve Safran mentions the term "legacy journalists" being used to describe those who wrote for what most bloggers and "new media" folk call the mainstream media. I think it's kind of an obnoxious usage, because there is no need to defame those who are practicing journalism through "old" media outlets like newspapers and magazines. The last thing any of us need is for the journalism itself to change, really.

The folks at Consumers Union - yep, they're behind Consumer Reports - have put together a website called hearusnow.org to keep consumers informed about media ownership, Internet and telephone regulation, and TV & radio broadcasters. As a precursor to the petition they're asking people to sign that asks for the FCC to hold public hearings on certain topics, there's a three-minute video comparing the power that media consolidation wields over the public via broadcasting outlets. It's not quite JibJab, but it's definitely got a point to it.

You know those times when you see a headline and it's funny to you, but you realize it probably isn't to most of the population?

This is one of those times. Good job, Reuters!

As another update to the ABC News coverage of U.S. nuclear facilities, I'd like to direct your attention to some of the great tracking and reporting that Eric McErlain is doing over at the NEI Nuclear Notes blog. On Monday, he posted about segments that were aired on various ABC programs that seem to completely miss facts that are proven out elsewhere, and Tuesday morning he posted about what was happening on the ABCNews.com message boards. Later that day, he asked why messages - that were not from "trolls," by most accounts - were being deleted from the forum pages, apparently by moderators. Most were critical of the piece, pointing out information spelled out elsewhere.

This afternoon, McErlain informed me that ABC News was set to run programming on this story later this week, probably during "Primetime" on Thursday night. Checking that show's site, it appears that the story will go live online today at 5pm Eastern, and be on-air Thursday night at 10pm.

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' Joy Howard writes about how the Gambit Weekly, the alt-pub in New Orleans, is expected to hit print yet again on November 1. Howard details the preparations that the paper's staffers took pre-Hurricane Katrina that has allowed them to set a fairly firm timeline of being back on track, and what has been going on since New Orleans was flooded back in early September.

The world of media has been a popular place for bloggers to hop into - whether it's industry talk and some criticism (kind of like some of TMD's topics) to media bias analysis - and now, we've got another entrant, this time on BusinessWeek Online's site. The magazine's Jon Fine is now writing Fine on Media, which covers advertising, media, and wherever the twain shall meet.

Check out Jon's "Hello, World" here.

Over at HD Beat, Kevin Tofel has an interview with media guy Mark Cuban - and it's not all about basketball, either. Cuban talks about everything from the creation of HDNet to his goal of having multiple-outlet releases for film (home video/DVD, pay-per-view and theater). Read the whole thing.

With all the hubbub and M&A activity going on in the world of weblogs this week, Josh Hallett thought it wise to be completely transparent as to some potential content deals he was working on.

Wayyyy back in March, we heard that CRACKED magazine would be relaunching sometime this year with a spankin' new website and a bit more multimedia than its previous iteration. Well, it's here, and ready for your online enjoyment. As of right now, you'll have to wait 103 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes until the print version can make it to your sweaty hands, but that's okay.

One word of advice - make sure you mouse over Gary Busey, he's off to the right. Congrats to Monty and the whole CRACKED crew - good luck!

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Just caught this news over at Fool.com where Rick Aristotle Munarriz details Comcast's announcement that it would offer "as many as two live National Hockey League games from [their customers'] computers daily."

This is awesome, as being a non-Comcast television customer, but a Comcast broadband customer, it gives me the best of both worlds, if you combine the news that HDNet is going to broadcast a ton of puck this season.

And Off Winger Eric McErlain, who has had some not so nice things to say about Comcast in the past, even thanked the company for this move. I'll second that motion.

In what isn't really surprising to me but what might be to others, CNN/Money has a story Wednesday about the possibility that mobile phone networks could be damaged or slowed by an individual or group who sent a flood of text messages its way. Truly, it's like anything else of this sort - the pipes are only so big and data can only be processed so fast - find the weak point, and go for it. This is why various thresholds and failsafes are put in place, just like you see search request thresholds on message boards and comment throttling on weblogs.

Rafat Ali pointed out yesterday that PaidContent.org is now accepting comments and trackbacks on individual postings - that's great to hear, because that site has broken so many different stories and being able to follow the flow and evolution of those will be every enlightening.

I've gotta say that I'm so psyched for hockey season starting up. I'm in a fantasy league for what seems to be the first time in years, and we're ready to roll. HDNet is going to run 50-something games on its network, in staggeringly cool high definition, to add to the fun. What beats having your baseball team in the playoffs, NFL Sunday Ticket, your favorite driver second in the NASCAR Nextel Cup points standings (Ryan Newman), and the puck just about ready to start dropping?

Proving yet again that the biggest thing that will come out of Web 2.0 - or whatever we're calling all the new and improved solutions, software, and technological advances - is choice, Microsoft has stated that Office 12 will do the one thing that many a person has wanted to do for years and years, but never bought the software to do - print files as PDFs.

On second thought...