4 Minute Roundup: Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal; Chris Anderson Goes 'News'-Free

Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the recent complex search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, with Microsoft's Bing search engine to run queries on Yahoo, and Yahoo getting 88% of revenues. Plus, Wired editor Chris Anderson recently got in trouble with an interview he gave to Der Spiegel, saying he no longer uses the words \"news\" and \"media.\" I sing some songs as Anderson would with the word \"news\" missing. (Not sure I'll be singing on too many more 4MR reports!)\n\nCheck it out:\n\n\n\n

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\n\nBackground music is \"What the World Needs\" by the \"The Ukelele Hipster Kings\":http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1930 via PodSafe Music Network. Also, snippet from Fleetwood Mac's \"Second Hand News\" via YouTube.\n\nHere are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:\n\n\"Yahoo, Microsoft reach search, ad deal\":http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10298303-56.html?tag=rtcol;inTheNewsNow at News.com\n\n\"Tallying Microsoft's Transition Costs In Yahoo Deal\":http://paidcontent.org/article/419-how-much-will-the-yahoo-deal-cost-microsoft-in-transition-costs/ at PaidContent\n\n\"Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Will Dredge up Anti-Trust Concerns Again\":http://www.clickz.com/3634569 at ClickZ\n\n\"Sorry, Microsoft Will Not Own 30% Of The Search Market\":http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-sorry-microsoft-will-not-own-30-of-the-search-market-2009-7 at Silicon Alley Insider\n\n\"Advertisers Fear Details, but Love Microsoft-Yahoo Deal\":http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=138195 at AdAge\n\n\"Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job\":http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,638172,00.html at Der Spiegel\n\n\"Chris Anderson's Unbelievably Annoying Interview With Spiegel\":http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-chris-andersons-unbelievably-annoying-interview-with-spiegel-2009-7 at Silicon Alley Insider\n\n\"Chris Anderson's tweet about controversy\":http://twitter.com/chr1sa/status/2920891988\n\n\"Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book\":http://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman/dp/156858217X\n\nHere's a graphical view of last week's MediaShift survey results. The question was \"In what case would you publish stolen company documents?\"\n\n

\n\nAlso, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing.\n\nMark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and \"Idea Lab\":http://www.pbs.org/idealab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the \"Online Publishers Association\":http://www.online-publishers.org. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter \"@mediatwit\":http://www.twitter.com/mediatwit.