For the past few months, the Huffington Post has been on a bit of a tear–both in terms of traffic gains and in its hiring of some big talent for key positions.

Now, those execs are focusing on using that consumer momentum to achieve what has eluded the Huffington Post thus far: Making some serious bank from the privately held news and media site.

Here’s a chat I had with new President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman about how he is aiming to do just that.

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Lonely Planet, best known as a traditional travel guidebook publisher, is announcing a new U.S. head tomorrow–John Boris of Zagat Survey–as it increasingly moves to reposition the company as much more of a “cross-media” platform.

As the paid versus free content online debate gets louder over the next year, how well known brands like Lonely Planet–which has a strong reputation among consumers–handle the fallout will be more and more interesting to watch.

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Here’s the classic stylings of Apple’s Steve Jobs, showing of the iPhone 3G, from the keynote today at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Yes, those are actual oohs and ahhs from the audience, which includes a massive passel of press, as if Jobs was showing them the secret to eternal happiness (which is, by the way, not a new iPhone, but a dozen tasty donuts).

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Don’t miss this video below from WSJ.com last week about AT&T (T) stores using Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface table-sized touch computer to help customers, which is one of the first commercial applications of the device.
Surface actually got a demo at our D5 conference last May, but BoomTown has been partial to this very funny video spoof [...]

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I meant to get this very funny video about the Web sites of financial publications–from Current TV, by Viral Video Film School–posted sooner, as it made me spit up my coffee several times.
The shaggy Brett Erlich perfectly reviews the sites for the Web 2.0 crowd, making fun of WSJ.com’s soothing video intro music, and the [...]

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WSJ.com’s Tech Diary’s Andy Jordan attends one of the geekier get-togethers ever–a LAN party, playing video games all night.
Exciting? Not!

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The recession’s impact might not miss the typically high-flying Internet stocks. Or maybe it will. Or not.
Good thing Facebook and Slide got all that cash!
With a lot of companies reporting soon, here’s a video from WSJ.com to help you sort it all out:

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Here’s a lovely selection of videos from the Consumer Electronics Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas, from the folks at WSJ.com. (BoomTown videos to come, of course!):

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Here are two articles from The Wall Street Journal’s online site you might have missed in your holiday stupor.

One looks at the newfound fervor in India for Lord Balaji (pictured here), an incarnation of the Hindu Lord Vishnu, because of his apparent pull in getting adherents visas to the U.S. and other Western countries. Well, [...]

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Andy Jordan of WSJ.com’s Tech Diary visits Smokey and the High-Tech Bandit!
Favorite quote when Jordan asks a trucker if he has a laptop and is misheard: “Lap Dancer? No, I’m married.”
It’s certainly a long way from CB radio–10-4, good buddy.

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One of the nice things about having a blog is that I can mouth off on just about anything I want and include whatever I want too (such as, for example, shamelessly making videos of my kids in a fruitless attempt to try to cajole Yahoo’s Jerry Yang into having lunch with me).

Today, that [...]

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Andy Jordan of WSJ.com’s Tech Diary makes sure the cabbies in Manhattan don’t take him the long way around. New Yorkers react to taxis with GPS and other gadgety doodads:

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Andys find each other online. There is a harmonica in this chapter of WSJ.com’s Tech Diary. Riveting!

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The WSJ.com’s Tech Diary vlogger Andy Jordan visited the Digital Life gadget show in New York last week and gets digitally altered (including elf ears!), sees his facial hair too close up and meets way too many robots.
Here’s the video:

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We were kidding last week in our post about our longtime opinion that News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch should set WSJ.com free from behind its paid wall that one way to make money was to create a number of premium services, including perhaps starting with a Walt Mossberg fan club.
Thus, we were unprepared for the [...]

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