From the Guardian:

Online video technology firm Blinkx has developed an integrated advertising system it hopes will help generate revenues from the growing amount of video on the web.

From the NYT:

Midway through her reporting on how Americans were handling economic pressure, NPR senior correspondent Ketzel Levine found out that she had been laid off.

A food expert notes that per-capita food production is dropping off even as the human population continues its march towards nine billion souls by 2050. To cope, the global food production system needs to be radically rethought for the 21st century.

From the NYT:

Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America’s three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq.

Could the nattering nabobs of negativism in the U.S. news media be making the economis situation there worse?

From the BBC:

Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was beaten by medieval prince Alexander Nevsky in a poll held by a TV station to find the greatest Russian.

Stalin came third, despite being responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviets in labour camps and purges.