Yahoo to sing the news

Called Odd News Underground, the feature is likely to launch in March and will join a ton of other, risible attempts to jazz up current affairs such as Naked News and Live TV's News Bunny, a now-retired cloth rabbit that would mime actions behind the newsreader. Don't ask us why.

From print, online, e-books, podcasts and webcasts, media consumers have never had so many ways to receive information but there is little sign of the media acknowledging that enough is enough.

For example, Associated Newspapers, Forbes and Hearst all this week issued digital readers in an attempt to make the "online reading experience" more attractive, flexible and, well, newspaper-like.

The readers were developed using Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation and are optimised for, you guessed it, Vista. µ