Good morning! Here’s your Daily Digest for Monday, Feb. 7, 2011

AOL has announced it will buy the Huffington Post for $315 million. Arianna Huffington will act as president and editor in chief of the new Huffington Post Media Group, giving her control over AOL’s news operations as well as other media, like MapQuest. What’s in it for HP: reach new audiences. For AOL: more ad sales. Supposedly, the tools the Huffington Post uses that encourage thousands of comments and linking across social media sites will benefit AOL’s local news initiative (Patch.com) and its “citizen journalist venture” (Seed.com).

A documentary about the 20 or so Somali men who left Minneapolis will premiere this week. In an interview with the Star Tribune, the director talks about why she chose this topic for her documentary and what kind of response she got from the community. The director Fathia Absie emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was 15. She moved to Minneapolis specifically to film this documentary.

In another episode of Wikileaks, CNN reports Julian Assange could end up at Guantanamo Bay or be executed if he is extradited to Sweden over sex allegations. Wait…what? Yeah. That’s what they wrote. What they meant is in the next paragraph: “If Britain extradites him to Sweden, the Nordic country could in turn send him to the United States to face espionage charges, the lawyers argue.” The Swedish prosecutor denied this was a probability. Assange is on day one of a two-day extradition hearing in Britain. His lawyers are arguing his case should be heard in Britain because 1) it would be a human rights violation to extradite him when he could face “mistreatment or even execution;” and 2) rape trials in Sweden are held behind closed doors.

Super Bowl highlights? I watched a few minutes of the game. Not enough to see this adorable ad.

If you missed out on what I heard was not the best year for Super Bowl advertising, here are a couple “best and worst” lists.