Channel 4's pick for tech reporter

We know you love to follow the antics of technology journalism (cough) but here's one which may intrigue... Channel 4 has just appointed a new technology correspondent, and it's none other than Britain's former-teenage-dotcom-entrepreneur Benjamin Cohen (hinted at over on Media Monkey earlier this week). Cohen, of course, set up SoJewish back in the day when he was off school, and turned it into a going concern. Then he tried a porn search engine - Hunt4Porn - before trying his hand at cybersquatting by buying the iTunes.co.uk domain. That didn't come off, and for the last few years he's made his main job gay news site PinkNews. You can see further details of his exploits at the Reg and Wikipedia. Nothing if not colourful, eh? Let's see how he turns his hand to the telly...