Freescale – Kevin Fitchard was a top-20 nominee and Kevin Tofel was a top-five finalist in Freescale’s reader-driven listing of the top smart device pundits.

AlwaysOn – The second annual Power Players in Digital Media list, featuring Om Malik, honors the champions of entrepreneurship who are helping the Global Silicon Valley dominate today’s digital media technology marketplace.

Forbes – Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment. According to a report by Barb Darrow, a senior writer with GigaOm, IBM may be the only seriously interested party.

Folio – Walborsky says that by the end of 2013, research content sales will account for more than 55 percent of revenue, with the rest coming from events and advertising. Revenue, he says, is in the “tens of millions” and GigaOM is profitable.

American Journalism Review – GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram thinks newsrooms will increasingly make use of material generated from the outside – whether it’s a service like Newsmodo or crowdsourcing.

Marketplace – Laura Hazard Owen weighs in on Barnes & Noble’s upcoming earnings report.

WNPR/Where We Live – Host John Dankosky talks with paidContent’s Mathew Ingram about the ethics surrounding tech journalism.

USA Today – Balancing the needs of app users and advertisers “is going to be a challenge for GetGlue and anyone else in the space going forward,” says Janko Roettgers of GigaOM.

WNYC – New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi sits down with GigaOm reporter Ki Mae Heussner to discuss New York City’s one-year e-hail pilot program which starts February 15.

This Week in Startups – Om Malik talks tech, journalism and everything in between with Jason Calcanis