Michael Gracie 

Hilarious, particularly if you are a trader short yield… The part about selling bundled mortgages to the next willing buyer is something I discussed long ago. Someone please call when they’ve figured out how to accurately price these securities, while their collateral tumbles in value. (h/t to Marc Andreessen, via PK) UPDATE: Hard to value [...]

The graph has received some criticism, but I think it’s pretty cool: Some will look at the metros on the lower end of the scale and think all is fine and dandy, but I don’t think that is the case. Abuse at the top end has severely effected the capital markets. Those on the lower [...]

Interesting post on lead management and conversion techniques, from Search Engine Land. There’s still a lot of opportunity in this space, although it seems startups are likely to fall short for lack of existing data with which to qualify and categorize new leads for additional “nurturing.”

I use a lot of SMS, and so do some of my friends (particularly the expatriates). Those SMS threads get long, and my Blackberry had been crapping out with Java exceptions. I drop into an AT&T store, and they give me two options: 1) go home, call customer service, and they’ll probably replace the phone, [...]

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine fame has blocked all harassment-level PR agents from his email inbox – and he’s published a list of their return email addresses for the world to see as well. Funny, as professional harvesters will now be attacking them in droves. Many of the addresses on the list look like ‘no-reply’ [...]

There’s an interesting conversation that’s been taking place over the last twelve hours regarding recent innovations in the Web 2.0 space, or the lack thereof. It started with John Heileman of New York Magazine taking a few swipes at the hype, which was quickly picked up after Fred Wilson made it clear some of the [...]

From The Wall Street Journal: With October ending in two days and the books closed on the final Merger Monday of the month today, it looks as if a rebound could be underway. I imagine the rebound includes senior and sub financing term sheets that look like they’re from five years ago. In other words, [...]

No surprise here. They might now say they’re changing their policy, even though it’ll be impossible to enforce internally. As the employee base grows along with the Valley-centric fanbase, this will become more of a problem. UPDATE: It gets worse. Sounds like some are cracking under pressure.

Maybe it’s just a cruel joke on me. Last night at about 10:00 pm my Blackberry clock fell back an hour. I checked the time on the laptop, and sure enough it said eleven. At first I thought I’d wake up in the morning and the laptop would have changed, but this morning that hadn’t [...]

I don’t know if there is such a thing, but someone got one anyway. We hit the Dream Stream today, and spent up until 1:30 pm wishing we hadn’t dressed for a winter storm – the day started off cold and gray, and way too quickly moved to warm and cloudless. For me, things got [...]