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Report: Huffington Post Closing on $15 Million Third Round

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 21, 2008 - 11:15am.

London - Politics and culture blog The Huffington Post is near the close of a new $15 million third round of venture capital financing, The Times reported, while PaidContent adds that sources tell it that Oak Investment Partners will lead the round.

tags: Deals | VC | Publishing | Oak Investment Partners | Huffington Post | Arianna Huffington |

Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers

Authored by Scott Karp on August 17, 2007 - 7:36am.
Arianna HuffingtonThe Huffington Post has unveiled a new comment system that allows top commenters to become featured bloggers on the site. I interviewed Arianna Huffington about the new system — our Q&A appears below. First, a few thoughts on the idea of promoting commenters to bloggers. Every media company is experimenting with “user-generated content,” and comment-enabled content is now ubiquitous, but most media companies treat those “users” as an undifferentiated mass (as the distasteful term “user” implies) and the content they “generate” as one big bucket of “stuff.”
tags: Social Networking | Web 2.0 | The Huffington Post | Arianna Huffington |