YAHOO AUDIO SEARCH 

Just saw this linked from Joost's blog. Looks like Yahoo! have launched another audio content search engine. But it doesn't seem to find any of my podcasts.

Interestingly though, if you search for a well known podcast say, 'morning coffee notes' you'll see that it thinks you can download it from a lot of different locations/mirrors. Hmm.. Interesting. Looks like they have lots to do still, but good to see then getting into the media search game. :)

A DREAM JOB 

From Poynter Online

Washingtonpost.com has made a good catch. It's hired Adrian Holovaty (http://www.holovaty.com) as "editor, editorial innovations," and he'll start September 6. This is a significant job, because it basically puts Holovaty, a talented young developer-journalist, in the role of "mad scientist" for the award-winning news website. He'll be charged with coming up with new ideas for site features, implementing things quickly, and working on special projects.

I think that's a job position that more news websites should have --

someone with serious tech skills charged with leading innovation and experimenting.

Holovaty was lead developer for the Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas), working under Rob Curley (http://www.robcurley.com/bio/) . The Lawrence team is among the most innovative in the online newspaper industry, and has won many new-media industry awards. Curley recently left Lawrence to work for E.W. Scripps in Naples, Florida. Now Holovaty is departing.

Holovaty also is the man behind ChicagoCrime.org

(http://www.chicagocrime.org) , an innovative site linking local crime databases to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) .

Just as with his job as lead developer for Lawrence, Holovaty will work from his home in Chicago.

Very nice job if you can get it. Or indeed, if you can convince your publication that they need this position. And let's face it, most do! :)

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