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I’m excited to be joining up with the impressive crew at High Gear Media!

From TechCrunch:

“High Gear Media, a publishing company focused on automotive digital media, is having a great year. The Palo Alto, CA-based vertical content startup raised a second round of funding last Summer to the tune of $5.5 million and has been growing like a weed.

“Today, the company’s announcing that Chas Edwards is joining its board of directors. Edwards is the former Chief Revenue Officer of Federated Media who in May 2009 left the digital advertising network to become the money guy at Digg.

“High Gear Media is riding the wave of built-for-the-web content production platforms, publishing a mix of original, licensed, aggregated and user-contributed content. You could compare this approach to the Demand Media model, the route AOL is taking towards massive low-cost content production and Seeking Alpha’s strategy in the stock market vertical. It’s clearly turning into something of a trend.”

To clarify some confusion in the comments at TechCrunch: This is a board role High Gear Media. No plans to leave my dayjob at Digg!