Michael Gracie 

Let’s play a game – it’s called “How Much iPhone Buzz?” Click on this link, and then continually hit the refresh button. Blog chatter stats regarding the iPhone will fluctuate tremendously, but see how many articles you can actually get to come up. My best was +30 million: A weakness with Google Blog Search? Or [...]

Forbes just posted a graph showing the expanding gap between median home prices and median wages, based on data garnered from the National Association of Realtors and the Social Security Administration. Now, a whizbang economist could probably enhance this analysis by commenting on the relative interest rates during the period (taken from Ibbotson), the rising [...]

I’ve got 5 invitations for the Freebase alpha test, if anybody wants one. Use the contact form to send me your email address, and I’ll forward one to you. UPDATE: …or just comment with a valid email address, like the last, smarter than I, person did. There are four three two one none left. Sorry. [...]

There is a lot more to being acquired than hiring a lawyer and pumping out a set of long-term projections. Deals fall down for unexpected reasons, and at times for reasons expected by the suitor but not by the target. AskTheVC has started a series on the subject, and it begins like this: Potential acquirers [...]

The raging controversy over Federated Media affiliates plugging Microsoft slogans into their blogs won’t end soon (at least until the next “scandal” breaks, that is). I say everyone should grab a scotch, read the top ten blogger lies, and remind themselves that the average human being will never know “the conversation” even happened. UPDATE: Dan [...]

The Wall Street Journal notes that the business.com domain could fetch $300 million for owners Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton, on a $7.5 million initial investment. Meanwhile, everyone is poo-pooing the thing. Assuming what the Journal says is true and the site is pulling in roughly $15 million in EBITDA… Techdirt says “At this point, [...]

Maybe calling Marc Andreessen an “internet guy” is putting it lightly – with all the big-name fanfare regarding his blogging exploits I say what the hell. You have to give credit where credit is due, and his latest is a doosie…turnaround tactics. For the most part, it is politically incorrect. That generally means it’s all [...]

Today must be National Bash Comcast Day. Someone started a rant about Comcast’s poor service. Glenn Reynolds picked up on it and is now running a poll asking his readers to help him decide which service to switch to. Others are piling on. How about turning off the TV for a bit and getting outside, [...]

Professional investors (particularly traders, with emphasis on the upper tier of commodities fund managers) know how to cut their losses, and they know how to double down on their winners as well. Entrepreneurs and business managers can certainly learn from this (myself included, as decision making has often been driven by curiousity and passion versus [...]

I checked out this Lifelock hit job story with the initial intent of commenting on the company’s worthiness in the old Spamroll way, so I’ll follow that path first… Lifelock provides credit services under the identity theft protection moniker. I discussed some of the methodologies for protecting your identity way back when, but failed to [...]