This might be a bit inside baseball but Dean Takahashi, the veteran tech reporter on the Valley's San Jose Mercury News, has just left the paper to join VentureBeat.
I interviewed Dean in September and don't think he'll mind me saying that he seemed downbeat when answering my question about old media organisations being behind the curve when it comes to tech coverage. It's a sector where the so-close-to-the-action blogs often break the news - or rather are given the news to break. (See the comments on that by BBC Tech editor Darren Waters, who just appointed the Beeb's fist San Francisco-based reporter.)
I look forward to seeing what he'll be able to do with VentureBeat under his wings, so to speak.
Source: Sidebar, via Valleywag
