This weeks edition of the New Media Minute offers a concise summary of the recent Lehman Brothers report that sent media stocks tumbling: unless youre Apple or Google youre screwed.

Youll also learn about video search initiatives from Blinkx and Truveo, as well as efforts in the windy city to turn Chicago into a new media haven with the September Chicago New Media Summit.

Finally, Daisy Whitney says shes willing to connect both ad agencies and web shows that want to learn more about new ad opportunities in Web video.

Coming home from Gary Vaynerchuk’s 500th episode I learned when it’s safe to take a ride from a stranger — when that stranger Twitters.

Daisy Whitney has a guest co-host in this weeks New Media Minute: Sarah Lane, the star of Revision3s PopSiren, joins her on the set of Sarahs own Web show. Tune in for details on how David Price, host of Black20.coms The Middle Show and the winner of the first ever New Media Minute-TVWeek.com Tournament for the Hottest Male Web Host, has landed a sponsor in mobile technology company Loopt. You’ll also get the latest demos for online video and TV and an exclusive interview with Sarah Lane on big changes at her Web show.

Traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo are poised to win the video search business because almost one-third of traffic to online video sites originates from search engines, Hitwise says. In this episode of the New Media Minute youll also learn about Feed Company too, which seeds viral marketing campaigns for brands like Ray Ban and Microsoft Zune.The episode also covers a partnership between the University of California at San Francisco and YouTube that could portend a new direction for Web video.

Now that the TV upfront is over, this weeks New Media Minute looks at what it costs to run an ad on-air and online. The numbers may surprise you. The episode also covers the latest product integration efforts by online comedy duo Rhett & Link. The pair have partnered with Alka-Seltzer. Will it work? Finally, youll get a closer look at a new online video measurement company Visible Measures and why its well positioned in the growing Web video economy.

In this weeks New Media Minute Internet star iJustine discusses her upcoming project, The Really Big Internet Show.Its a new daily Web series produced by Carson Daly Productions and is slated to launch in July and will also feature Web stars Rhett & Link and HappySlip.iJustine also talks about how to make money as an Internet celebrity, CPMs for her Web videos and whether Internet fame has changed her.

We share a range of costs for Web series such as Dorm Life, Sanctuary and Foreign Body in this weeks edition of the New Media Minute and compare those costs to traditional TV.

The episode also looks at how fast venture capital money is flowing into the online video sector this year. Hint: in the first three months of this year, investment has already reached nearly half of the dollars from last year. Finally, we also offer an inside look at how an online game for Cartoon Network's "Ben 10" is driving Web traffic for the cable network.