I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS GOOD NEWS OR NOT: Sonic Foundry has been bought by Sony Digital. I’m a big fan of Sonic Foundry’s Acid music software and Vegas video editing software. (I have DVD Architect, too, their pro-level DVD authoring program, but haven’t actually used it yet). Sony will take over all of those, along with some Sonic Foundry folks.

On the one hand it’s good: Sony makes great video cameras, but their efforts at video-editing software (Pixela and the much-despised Movie Shaker for micro-MV) haven’t exactly set the world on fire. But will Sonic Foundry make Sony better, or will Sony ruin Sonic Foundry? A couple of readers seem to think it’ll be the latter. I sure hope not.