CNN Blog Producer Producer will cover web-logs (blogs), pod-casts, and other internet-based forms of new media. The web producer will locate, research, and report on blogs and web sites that include news, politics, policy, commentary, and other information of value to our viewers. The results will be daily television segments reporting on this area of the media. This person will be responsible for producing both the editorial content and also the graphic and video elements necessary to develop each segment. This person will also report on-air as needed. I wonder how long these “blogging bubble” jobs are going to last before they get absorbed into mainstream media positions. Thanks Blog Herald

Verisign buys Weblogs.com for $2 million Another sale, another few millions, another big name forays into the weblog market in a big way.

Macworld: The best blogging tools for the MacRight now, the blogging tools most popular with Mac users are TypePad and Movable Type, both from Six Apart; Blogspot and Blogger, from Blogger (now part of Google); and WordPress, an open-source tool. These five tools range in power and complexity from simple-but-limited (TypePad, Blogger, and Blogspot) to do-pretty-much-anything-but-may-require-coding (WordPress). Movable Type is somewhere between these two extremes. Thanks Google Alerts

Measure Map: New Blog Analytics Tool: Anyone want to share inside notes? Part of the Adaptive Path family. Thanks Technoogle