…when a particular ad campaign is going to strike the fancy of a particular set of bloggers. It’s kinda like falling in love, there’s just some chemistry, some rhythm. Well, Wonkette has gotten into a might strange groove with the EcoDriving campaign.

Thank you Will!

Here’s a stunning comparison of Huffpo’s new valuation versus that of publicly traded TheStreet.com. Thank you T!

As friends who read this blog know, I’m pessimistic about the economy. My pessimism sank to new lows last night as I read John Cassidy’s New Yorker overview of Bernanke’s flailing in the face of the crisis. A tiny excerpt:

The most serious charge against Bernanke and Paulson is that their response to the crisis has been ad hoc and contradictory: they rescued Bear Stearns but allowed Lehman Brothers to fail; for months, they dismissed the danger from the subprime crisis and then suddenly announced that it was grave enough to justify a huge bailout; they said they needed seven hundred billion dollars to buy up distressed mortgage securities and then, in October, used the money to purchase stock in banks instead. Summing up the widespread frustration with Bernanke, Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal think tank in Washington, told me, “He was behind the curve at every stage of the story. He didn’t see the housing bubble until after it burst. Until as late as this summer, he downplayed all the risks involved. In terms of policy, he has not presented a clear view. On a number of occasions, he has pointed in one direction and then turned around and acted differently. I would be surprised if Obama wanted to reappoint him when his term ends”—in January, 2010.

The article assumes there was (or is) a solution to the minefield we’ve dropped into the middle of.

Fun to see my Twitter habits graphed. Turns out my prime time for twittering is Wednesday at 8am. I’d love to see the same type of graphic for my e-mail habits.

Arianna pulled off a miracle, raising $25 million in the most brutal funding environment since the invention of VC. She should take Paulson’s job and help bail out the banks next.