I actually appeared on a PBS show before this Naveen Jain guy once. He was shady with Infospace, and he's shady now. Beware the Intelius.

Very thorough article about how the Wall Street system unraveled and who saw it coming a couple of years ago.

"If money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down," President Bush declared Thursday as he watched the $700 billion bailout package fall apart before his eyes, according to one person in the room.

In this piece for The New Yorker, Gladwell examines the collapse of Enron and whether it qualifies as a "puzzle" or a "mystery". The two are apparently quite different.

Deep-pocketed political donor Rob Glaser undertook his biggest-ever political investment in 2004 when he handed over $10 million to prop up lefty talk-show network Air America Radio, giving him 36.7 percent ownership. But while the founder and CEO of Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc. successfully helped fund the 2006 Democratic revolt in Congress, he has been bloodied attempting a similar revolution in progressive talk radio.

Chris "Long Tail" Anderson looks at Guy Kawasaki's first year of blogging and how AdSense has failed miserably to monetize it. In short, Guy's blog is about the 40th most popular blog IN THE WORLD and AdSense brought him only $280 per month.

It's important to keep these sorts of things in mind when thinking about your motivation for writing a column or a blog.

An overview of Chris Anderson's follow-up to The Long Tail... a concept he is calling The Economy of Abundance.

If it gets made, it is likely to be the first mainstream film written and produced by a marketer and its ad agency

Bankrupt Northwest Airlines advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.

T-Mobile apparently has a publicly searchable database of coverage strength at different addresses. Love the honesty.

A good overview of all the factors which go into successful (or unsuccessful) viral marketing on the web.

A great article about the U.S.'s major competing news sites. Turns out CNN.com staffs about 250 people while MSNBC.com staffs 175. As for Newsvine, we're content with 5 for now. :)

Too bad they ditched this stuff. It was the only drink at Starbucks I could stand.

In an ingenious effort to advertise Starbucks, the company pays people to drive around with coffee cups glued to their roofs. I love it.

Clarence Wooten points out why taking less venture capital is almost always a good thing for startups.

The latest numbers apparently indicate that the U.S. economy is still strong.