I browse a lot of forums, sales ads, newsletters every day and time and time again I notice two things: first, people say appraisals are worthless, shouldn't be trusted, can't accurately value domain names, etc. Second, those same people put something like an estibot valuation next to their domain names in a sales pitch. Ok. What gives?

Business:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.underarmour24mar24,0,4345146...
Under Armour CEO cuts pay from 500,000-->26,000 (yes you read that right twenty six thousand) after not meeting growth targets

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2009/03/21/FacebookStreamRedesignDisru...
Mark Zuckerburg doesn't care about you or your stupid opinion about facebook

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=atpOuT9eGjy4&refer=j...

I was reading Seth Godin's Blog and he brought up an interesting point about salaries at top banks/investment companies and law firms before them.

Twenty years ago, financial industry salaries were a tiny fraction of what they are today. Did lesser people do the work? Did they try less hard? Think smaller thoughts? Of course not. The reasons salaries are high is that the number is a signaling mechanism, a very expensive marketing campaign.

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Don't get it? twittEr.com

So I've been playing a lot with twitter lately and my question becomes, how are people driving traffic and what influences it? There are a lot of people spending countless hours or designing automated systems to spam and advertise on twitter but what makes it work (or not work)?

Business:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?curren...
Fascinating article about iceland, land of elf inspectors, PhD, fish and aluminium

http://ka9q.livejournal.com/4059.html
Economics is NOT a zero-sum game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16krugman.html
Krugman: Europe's structural problems > US

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29740869/
Organ Black Market of Egypt

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_0CHRWCFx4w&refer=h...
IBM to buy Sun?

Science/Technology:
http://www.caida.org/home/
Internet Data Analysis

business
http://market-ticker.org/archives/865-Reserve-Banking.html
fractional reserve banking: is it fraud?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/introduction-to-ad-auction.html
understanding google ad auctions

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/start-ups/14startup.html?_r...
people just starting their own companies after being tired of looking for jobs

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aQzRB3sWOivE&refer=c...
Moody's full of shit -- admit it to courts but don't want you to know

"Economists say there are some peculiarities to this wave of downturn start-ups. Chiefly, the Internet has given people an extraordinary tool not just to market their ideas but also to find business partners and suppliers, and to do all kinds of functions on the cheap: keeping the books, interacting with customers, even turning a small idea into a big idea."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10194354-38.html
HAPPY Pi Day!

Business:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f2829fa-0daf-11de-8ea3-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...
Adam Smith's market never stood alone - Amartya Sen

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0005-starting-up-with-a-friend.html
Starting a business - things to clarify

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7938227.stm
Rich hit by ecnoomic crisis, gates #1 again

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/how-much-is-a-suggested-slot-on-twi...
$250,000 for twitter slot

Science/Technology:

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
how to start a startup

http://www.money.co.uk/article/1002973-investors-lured-to-the-movies-by-...
movie investing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918622.stm
anger=good?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7918129.stm
islamic banks

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/03/us/20090303_LEONHARDT.html...
geography of a recession

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160653/skype_gives_away_hi...
skype codec... free