Om Malik, well-respected journalist and founder of technology news blog network Giga Omni Media and its flagship blog GigaOm, broke the news about us being acquired by AOL about a month ago now.

We’re getting back at them today, even if just a little: looks like the publishing company just raised another $2.5 million according to an SEC filing, bringing the total of capital raised by Giga Omni Media to a healthy $8.33 million.

Update: GigaOm writes “Okay, We Got More Money”. You can get more details about the state of the company, future plans and its latest hires over there.

The most recent financing round amounted to $4.5m and was closed over two years ago.

The fresh capital injection comes from Alloy Ventures and True Ventures (the Silicon Valley early-stage venture firm where Malik is partner).

It comes at a time when GigaOm just lost senior writer and editor-at-large for NewTeeVee Liz Gannes to rival AllThingsD.

We’ve reached out to Om for comment on the financing round and what the company plans to do with the money. More acquisitions of smaller blogs, perhaps?

Our friends at Giga Omni Media’s NewTeeVee are putting on a conference tomorrow Thursday for the Web video industry called NewTeeVee Live. The lineup looks great: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, Sling Media CEO Blake Kirkorian, YouTube platforms director Ben Ling, and many others. The conference is tomorrow at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

Update: TechCrunch readers can get a $200 discount and buy tickets for $395 for the one-day event by registering here with the discount code “techcrunch”. Plus, another lucky five readers will get free tickets. All you have to do is tell us why you want to go in comments and we will give tickets to the readers who come up with the five best answers. (Tickets will go to those who seem like they will get the most out of the conference or who produce the most entertaining answers). The topics at this year’s conference will include:

* The truth about online video advertising
* Bridging the gap between television and online
* Online video investment trends
* Managed versus unmanaged content
* Live webcasts of major events: the inside story

Update 2: We have our winners, thanks for the comments.