A fresh site for aggregating links to the hottest news stories is coming courtesy of Barry Diller and Tina Brown.
Brown also authored The Diana Chronicles, her tell-all book about Princess Diana, and is writing The Clinton Chronicles for release in 2010.
Diller, IAC, and Brown aren't discussing details of their venture, though published reports have former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Edward Felsenthal as the site's planned editor.
Diller recently won his
Although several published reports are comparing the concept of the Diller-Brown site to the Huffington Post, the Drudge Report is a closer analogy because the big draw to the former is its original blog content while Drudge relies mainly on links to outside news sources.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, the Drudge Report had 3.5 million unique visitors in February who each spent an average of one hour on the site, while the Huffington Post had 3.8 million visitors who each spent eight minutes on the site.
