Talk of the Town
Enron crook Ken Lay died of heart failure this morning. The legions of hell are one man stronger today. - “The New Gawker: Please Pardon Our Progress.” That’s the headline at Gawker; much yak of firing and other happy developments. See mediabistro for gory details. Ugly perhaps, but you can’t let a pub go Chron-stale.
- Arrington gives you the skinny on Red Swoosh.
- Thanks to John Battelle for turning us on to “REcord Industry to Sue China” in Boing boing.
- An evil number: one account gives $800 million as the amount of cash torched by clickfraud last year.
- Jeff Clavier gives a detailed look at Chris Pirillo’s TagJag presentation at Gnomedex.
- See Daily Kos on Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ moronic comments on the internet. “It’s a series of tubes.” And apparently he’s not familiar with the term ‘e-mail.’ This DNA misprint is making decisions that affect your life.
- A self-titled rant by McManus comments on “How to Game Digg and the Blogosphere.”
- Barry Bonds trainer/injector Greg Anderson refuses to testify. We assume this defiance is an act of ching-a-ling-a-lingus that will entitle him to a massive Cayman Islands bank account after he does 18 months in Club Fed.
- Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed on seed investing returns, especially Vinod Khosla’s.
- “So You Want to Be a VC?”
- Search Engine Roundtable asks, “Google reveals spam sources Accidentally?”
- Kontera gets $7 million in fundiing for in-text ads.
- San Jose mass-muncher Joey Chestnut lost the hotdog eating contest to reigning champ Takeru Kobayashi, though the Basher appeared at one point to blow chow in violation of the contest’s one-way digestion rules.
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