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Political Blog The Huffington Post Lands $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 26, 2007 - 7:39am.

Los Angeles - Influential news and politics blog The Huffington Post has raised $5 million in its second round of financing, from previous investors Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, Bob Pittman's Pilot Group and company CEO and co-founder Ken Lerer, PaidContent.org reported.

Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers

Authored by Scott Karp on August 17, 2007 - 7:36am.

The 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.”

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