div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Google called off its proposed search advertising a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9097598"deal with Yahoo/a just three hours before the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=U.S.+Department+of+Justice"U.S. Department of Justice/a was to file an antitrust complaint on Nov. 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9114360"to pursue the case/a./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/12/hogans-litvack.html"In an interview/a with the legal blog AMLaw Daily published Dec. 2, a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Sanford+Litvack"Sanford Litvack/a -- the attorney who would have been the lead counsel on the antitrust case -- said that a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Google+Inc."Google/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Yahoo!+Inc."Yahoo/a decided to abandon the proposed deal shortly after DOJ officials informed them of the agency#39;s plans to file the antitrust complaint./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at a href="http://www.infoworld.com/news/?source=fssr"InfoWorld News/a, or subscribe to the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Today#39;s Headlines newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Shortly after the deal - which would have had Yahoo running Google advertisements alongside its own search results - was announced in June, a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=internet_applicationsamp;articleId=326250"Google and Yahoo/a came under fire from large advertiser groups, which charged that the arrangement would diminish competition and raise online advertising prices./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"And an antitrust think tank said the partnership could end up as a quot;black hole that a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9115380"swallows up Yahoo/a,quot; thus justifying an antitrust investigation./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In addition, the chairman of the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=U.S.+Senate"U.S. Senate/a#39;s antitrust subcommittee in October a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9116181"urged the DOJ/a to closely examine the proposed partnership, noting that it could lead to higher advertising prices and create unfair market conditions. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) said at the time that the subcommittee#39;s investigation found that many advertisers and competitors were concerned that Google would control a dominant share of the search advertising market. Under the deal, Yahoo would have less incentive to compete against Google and could opt to exit the market altogether, Kohl asserted./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Litvack went on to note that the complaint -- which was never filed -- would have charged that the deal would have violated antitrust regulations that bans agreements that restrain trade and prohibit companies from monopolizing or attempting to monopolize trade./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;It would have ended up also alleging that Google had a monopoly and that [the advertising pact] would have furthered their monopoly,quot; Litvack said in the blog. quot;The fact that we filed a lawsuit would not by itself have stopped them. We would have had to get an injunction from the court, and we would have sought that.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In the interview, Litvack went on to acknowledge that Microsoft Corp. and other companies lobbied the department to block the proposed deal, but said that the efforts had no influence on his decision to recommend that DOJ block the deal./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;[The department is] making it clear to the parties and to the world that this is how the division viewed these particular aspects of Google#39;s business,quot; Litvack added in the blog. In a statement after the deal was called off the DOJ said that under the agreement, Google and Yahoo would have become collaborators rather than competitors for a significant part of their search advertising business,quot; materially reducing important competitive rivalry between the two companies.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emComputerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate/em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

h4When powerful interests attack/h4 pThe senior policeman in charge of the Whitehall leak investigation has given an account of how consent was obtained that calls the Speaker of the House's version of events into question..../p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/40522?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Tories+sack+10%25+of+party+HQ+staff+as+credit+crunch+bitesch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Conservatives%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CPolitics%2CUK+newsc5=Credit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=David+Henckec7=2008_12_04c8=1128982c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Conservativesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FConservatives" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Conservative party is making more than 10% of its staff at party headquarters redundant as a direct result of the economic downturn, guardian.co.uk can reveal./ppThe casualties include members of the party's policy section, which provides research and ideas for the next general election manifesto./ppThe decision follows a slackening off in donations as the global financial crisis bites. Some 24 staff at the party's Millbank headquarters were told on Monday that they could be made redundant. /ppIn a separate move the party is also closing the arm's-length Constituency Campaigning Services – based in Coleshill Manor, in the West Midlands – which provides campaigning material and acts as a call centre for constituency parties. Some 40 people there have been declared redundant./ppThe two divisions bearing the brunt of the redundancies in London are the party's external affairs and policy units, which are in effect being run down. A third division, the party's business relations department, was also facing closure, but sources say the department has been saved by a big Tory donor, Alan Lewis, chair of the Hartley Investment Trust and a former treasurer of the party, who agreed to bankroll all the staff. /ppThis department has links with two key Tory organisations, Conservative City Circle and Conservative City Future, and has strong links with the City of London. /ppIt is chaired by the MP Richard Spring, the vice chair of the party with special responsibility for business and entrepreneurship, and advises George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, on small business issues./ppThe decision to slim down the policy section some 17 months before the last date of an election is a surprise. The section writes and researches draft policy for the party – and works closely with Oliver Letwin, the former shadow chancellor appointed by David Cameron to head the party's policy review. /ppThe West Dorset MP is also, alongside Cameron, a former member of the party's policy unit, after working closely with Margaret Thatcher. /ppThe external affairs department is run by George Eustace, David Cameron's former press secretary, and liaised with Christian and Muslim groups and local party associations. Sources said yesterday that Eustace was not one of the people to be sacked./ppMost of the staff facing the sack are footsoldiers, brought in to strengthen the party's work to win the next general election. /ppNone of the highly paid big hitters, including former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, the party's director of communications and planning, and marketing guru Steve Hilton, the director of strategy who is still helping the leader while working from California, are affected. /ppNor is the party's communications directorate or any of the departments bankrolled by Lord Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the party, including the campaigning section./ppThe changes have been initiated by Andrew Feldman, the new chief executive of the Tory party, with the backing of Giles Inglis-Jones, the party's head of human resources. /ppThe closure of CCS, funded by millionaire Tory donors, comes after the political funding watchdog the Electoral Commission cleared the organisation of being controlled by the Conservative party. Registered as a body independent of the Tories, it has received nearly £2m in donations since 2004, mainly from the Midlands Industrial Council, a Tory funding body, whose members include Robert Edmiston, a car importer and property developer. /ppIt had been under investigation for two years by the Electoral Commission after the Labour party complained that it was really part of the Conservative party and was subsidising campaigning in marginal seats by millions of pounds. /ppThe Electoral Commission did a U-turn in the middle of the investigation. Its initial findings, sent to David Wall, chair of both the CCS board and of its main donor, the MIC, said the commission believed the centre was "heavily subsidised"./ppLisa Klein, the director of party and election finance at the Electoral Commission, says in the letter (seen by the Guardian): "There may have been under-reporting of donations and election expenses by candidates, agents and the Conservative party accounting units who have benefited from the subsidised rates. These potential breaches are of concern to the commission, as the rules on donation reporting are fundamental to the transparency of party and election finance in the UK."/ppA Conservative party spokesman said: "The Conservative party was in discussion with the Electoral Commission in early 2008. These were clearly initial views prior to full information being provided and before a full investigation had been completed. The Electoral Commission has since concluded that CCS's charged rates were comparable to commercial rates. On this basis there is no evidence that donations should have been declared by the party and the commission decided to take no further action."/ppHe said: "Ahead of elections next year the Conservative party will be setting up an in-house campaign centre, which will coordinate the party's campaigning work across the West Midlands."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/conservatives"Conservatives/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/3921?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+MMR+vaccine+played+no+part+in+baby%27s+sudden+death%2C+coroner+saysch=Societyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Children+%28Society%29%2CHealth+%28Society%29%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CHealth+Society%2CChildren+Societyc6=David+Battyc7=2008_12_04c8=1128971c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Childrenc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FChildren" width="1" height="1" //divpThe MMR vaccine played no part in the death of a baby 10 days after getting the jab, a coroner ruled today./ppGeorge Fisher, aged 18 months, was discovered dead in his cot in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, by his mother, Sarah Fisher, hours after he was heard "chatting away on the baby monitor"./ppFisher, 42, and her husband Christopher, 43, believe the vaccine is "implicated" in their son's death in January 2006./ppThey said no one had explained to them the temperature-raising effect of the jab on children who had previously suffered a fit, as George had./ppBut the Gloucestershire coroner Alan Crickmore decided that George's symptoms had emerged too soon after receiving the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab to be related to it./ppAlthough George had a 2% chance of suffering a convulsion after the jab, those were not known to be fatal and there was no evidence he had even had a second fit./ppThe coroner recorded a verdict of natural causes, ruling that George had died from a rare condition known as Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood, due to an unascertained disease./ppThe verdict came after doctors, paediatricians and consultants told the hearing at Gloucester shire hall there was no evidence of a link between George's death and the jab./ppDepartment of Health guidelines say the jab should be given "with caution" but does not ban child sufferers of febrile convulsions - fever fits - from taking it and recommends monitoring temperatures./ppAfter the hearing the family's lawyer, Judith Leach, said George's parents were "extremely disappointed" with the verdict and would always believe MMR was to blame as no other cause had been found./ppShe read a statement saying: "The family are extremely disappointed in the verdict./pp"In the absence of any medical evidence to explain why their healthy little boy died and given the timing of the MMR vaccination in relation to George's death, his parents firmly believe there is a link between the two events and that the MMR vaccine had a role to play in George's death."/ppSarah Fisher, standing outside court with her husband, said: "I think it's so wrong to put the death of a healthy little boy down to natural causes. There's nothing natural about an 18-month-old boy dying of nothing, because that's what it was - nothing./pp"This has devastated our family all over again. Three years of work and reports and it's just natural causes? I'll never, ever understand that word."/ppTen years ago research led by Dr Andrew Wakefield, who is under investigation by the General Medical Council, sparked fears that the combined MMR vaccine was linked to autism./ppMajor studies in Britain, Finland and Japan have since disproved the connection but popular anxiety persists./ppLast week it emerged that a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/29/health-measles-epidemic"cases of measles had topped 1,000/a for the first time in more than a decade, which public health experts blamed on the "relatively low" uptake of the MMR vaccine./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/children"Children/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/health"Health/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NU69uPLn0SVvyS8sZPXm33NXGUY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NU69uPLn0SVvyS8sZPXm33NXGUY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Two sheets of paper, not shown to the jury but found during the Shannon Matthews investigation, offer a glimpse inside the strange world of Michael Donovan, Karen Matthews and her daughter.

h4But the bioterrorists will strike by 2013! Aiee!/h4 pA US congressional investigation into terrorists and WMDs has concluded that there will be a WMD attack within five years unless prompt international action is taken. The report also effectively says that the only kinds of WMD worth worrying about are atomic bombs and biological weapons..../pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567891?" border="0" alt=""/a

h4And Speaker's 'speedy' enquiry goes slow/h4 pHome Secretary Jacqui Smith told the House of Commons she had no prior knowledge of the police investigation into Tory shadow minister Damian Green..../p

h4PC Power grab put on hold/h4 pstrongComment/strong Today’s revelation that the police raid on the offices of Damian Green, MP, had been carried out without a full warrant may yet return to haunt the police officers who authorised it..../p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/93673?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Speaker%27s+investigation+into+Damian+Green+raid+will+not+begin+for+monthsch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Michael+Martin%2CDamian+Green%2CPolitics%2CUK+news%2CHouse+of+Commons%2CHarriet+Harman%2CPolice+%28politics%29c5=Policy+Society%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CUnclassifed+Contributorsc6=Deborah+Summersc7=2008_12_04c8=1128526c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Michael+Martinc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FMichael+Martin" width="1" height="1" //divpSpeaker Michael Martin's committee into why police were allowed to raid an MP's offices without a warrant will not begin its investigation for months, it emerged today./ppThe Speaker of the House of Commons looked increasingly isolated today as the Tories claimed that the inquiry, as detailed by Harriet Harman, the leader of the house today, bore "no resemblance to the immediate and speedy inquiry" MPs were promised yesterday./ppIt was claimed during business questions that the committee would adjourn soon after its first meeting to await the outcome of the police inquiry – in effect kicking the matter into the long grass for months./ppPressure on Martin is mounting following the arrest and police raid on Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, last Thursday./ppTwo senior Labour ministers have so far refused to give the speaker their ringing endorsement./ppHarman repeatedly declined last night to openly express confidence in the Speaker or the serjeant at arms, Jill Pay, who consented to the raid./pp"I am not saying I have full confidence in anything or anybody; I'm just telling you what the procedures are," she told BBC2's Newsnight./ppMargaret Beckett, the housing minister, today also refused to endorse the Speaker, insisting it was not for the government to either back or criticise him./pp"It is not for the government to pronounce on the Speaker; the Speaker is elected by the house."/ppShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "unfortunate" that many people were looking for someone to blame other than the person accused of doing something wrong./pp"It didn't sound to me yesterday like this was all the Speaker's fault, or all the serjeant at arms's fault. It sounded like a singularly unfortunate set of events./pp"I don't blame Harriet for not wanting to be put in the position whereby she is somehow taking responsibility which is not hers."/ppPressed to say whether she thought Martin was doing a good job, Beckett added: "I thought he handled things yesterday with dignity in very, very difficult circumstances."/ppBut Labour MP Stephen Pound acknowledged that Harman had been "equivocal" in her position on Martin and Pay./ppSpeaking before Beckett's interview, he said: "I would say only the leader of the House of Commons on the government benches has been so equivocal."/ppAsked why she had been, he said: "I haven't a clue. It's not something that's collegiate or comradely but I'm sure she has her reasons."/ppHe accused the Speaker's critics of being "wise after the event" but also appeared to admit that the issue could have been handled better./pp"With hindsight, there should have been a group of people - everyone, the clerk of the house [Michael Jack], the Speaker, the serjeant - should have been gathered together and worked out a protocol. But being wise after the event doesn't help."/ppAmid fury among MPs about the whole episode, one Tory MP, Richard Bacon, last night openly called on Martin to quit, accusing him of having "failed in his fundamental duty"./ppEven before last week's events, the Speaker's position had been questioned for many months, especially after rows over his expenses and attempts to keep all MPs' claims under wraps./ppIn an extraordinary statement to the Commons yesterday, Martin said the search of Damian Green's office had been authorised by the serjeant at arms without his express permission./ppHe told MPs that Pay signed a consent form for the search last Thursday without consulting him or the clerk of the Commons./ppAnd he said that officers "did not explain as they are required to do that the serjeant was not obliged to consent or that a warrant could have been insisted upon"./ppMartin is now appointing a committee of seven experienced MPs to look into the seizure of Green's papers, computer and mobile phone following the shadow immigration minister's arrest in connection with Home Office leaks./ppAttention will shift to the role of senior ministers when Jacqui Smith delivers her own statement about the issues raised by the affair to MPs today./ppThe home secretary has already insisted that she did not order the police probe into alleged leaks of documents to Green and had no prior notice of his arrest./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/michaelmartin"Michael Martin/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/damian-green"Damian Green/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/houseofcommons"House of Commons/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/harrietharman"Harriet Harman/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/police"Police/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HrTIBOjLc5UOyJN_WhdG2pfcsbc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HrTIBOjLc5UOyJN_WhdG2pfcsbc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

MovieX, a very large BitTorrent site which made the headlines last year for its controversial tracker policy, has been shut down by Australian police. The site, thought to have as many as 400,000 users, is being blamed for the ‘transfer’ of 14 million movies and TV shows. So far, two people have been arrested.

Last year, semi-private BitTorrent site MovieX hit the headlines after it was accused of diverting upload bandwidth from users of The Pirate Bay, to its own tracker. Non-members of MovieX were allowed to upload to MovieX members but were not allowed to download from them. This move wasn’t appreciated by a large proportion of the BitTorrent community.

Today, the site has bigger things to worry about. A press release from AFACT, (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) has proclaimed the death of a huge site, but stopped short of naming it.

TorrentFreak can now exclusively reveal that the site in question was MovieX. The domain currently displays this message:

We are temporarily offline.

Currently there is NO ETA AVAILABLE

@ADMINISTRATORS: PLEASE CONTACT DEV0 ASAP! ASK AROUND OTHER ADMINS IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME.

According to Australian Federal Police who shut down the site following an AFACT investigation, two Brisbane men from the same family - a 21 year-old and a 27 year-old (thought to be brothers) were arrested yesterday.

A bank account containing around AUS$54,000 (US $35,000) was frozen after the police alleged the money was proceeds from the site. Investigators close to the inquiry claim the site generated around AUS$10,000 (US $6,450) each month, with many users donating $10 a month for VIP access to direct-download material, which was separate from the site’s BitTorrent tracker. Other bank accounts connected to the site are currently under investigation. Computer equipment was also seized with a storage capacity of 2 terabytes.

“BitTorrent is a legitimate and efficient software for sharing files but, like any tool, it can be misused,” noted Neil Gane, AFACT’s Director of Operations.

Andrew Traucki who directed the Aussie movie Black Water has been getting in on the action, “applauding” the closure of the site. “Being a low budget film I didn’t get paid much and hoped to make some money for all my effort from the films’ sales. The fact that Black Water had been pirated and was online within days of being finished is upsetting. How are Australian film producers like me meant to make a living from our films if people pirate the film and watch it for free?”

However, although the movie was available for download via MovieX, things probably aren’t as bad as Traucki is now making out. As recently as August this year, Traucki said that he was delighted with the success of the movie, telling DVDindustry, “We wanted to make a film with international appeal and obviously we’ve succeeded,” going on to note that the movie had enjoyed “a remarkable sales ride”.

Penalties for commercial copyright crimes in Australia can amount to $60,000 and 5 years in jail for each offense.

More on this story as we get it.

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!-- pageType= magazinesmall slug= ff_blodget section= techbiz subsection= people headline= Financial Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter authorName= Daniel Roth creditType= photo credit= Mike McGregor caption= Henry Blodgetis back, and his straight-talking analysis of the Web world is earning him new fans. -- pstrongHenry Blodget/strong has never gotten used to the chorus of hate that follows his every move. He's merely learned to live with it. When he started his personal blog in 2005, the comments a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/2005/10/welcomeand_than.html"dripped with disgust/a. "You are a boldface liar," a reader wrote. "Give me one reason why I should believe what you are writing," said another. And that was just in response to Blodget's innocuous first entry. /ppDuring his years as a star Wall Street analyst, his pronouncements were welcomed and celebrated; now he couldn't say hello without getting savaged. Just last August, TechCrunch mentioned that Blodget would be one of more than two dozen tech celebrities a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/4-new-experts-henry-blodget-josh-kopelman-tim-o%E2%80%99reilly-robert-scoble-join-techcrunch50/"judging a contest/a for startups. Blodget knew what was coming, even if his hosts didn't. "Blodget is scum.... He is no longer the arrogant prick we saw in the '90s, but he's still scum," someone wrote. "A lot of people lost money listening to this dirtbag." "Blodget is a Web 1.0, bubble-creating has-been." "He is unethical." "He's as crooked as they come."/p pI meet a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/henry_blodget.html"Blodget/a at the offices of his new business, a year-old site called a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/"Silicon Alley Insider/a, shortly after the TechCrunch beat-down. Alley Insider is one of many tech business blogs that feed news, earnings info, and rumors to investors and corporate insiders. But Alley Insider has one thing that others don't. Blodget. He's smart, he's skeptical, and he's got the kind of self-assured voice that sells well in the blogosphere. As the market sinks, his opinions are even more in demand, though he's still hated by a large portion of his prospective audience./p pThe site shares two floors of a Manhattan office building with programmers and business staff for some of Alley Insider's sister companies, all of which were started by former DoubleClick CEO a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/kevin_ryan"Kevin Ryan/a. Blodget works in a double-wide cubicle near a window, separated by a low wall from the site's two other editors. They spend their days crawling Twitter and RSS feeds, calling sources, and pumping out about a dozen daily takes on the business world, most with Digg-friendly headlines (no easy accomplishment with bone-dry business stories). "Is Facebook Distracting Us From Porn? No" is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/is-facebook-distracting-us-from-porn-no"typical/a, or "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/googles_ginormous_food_budget_7530_per_googler"Google's Ginormous Food Budget/a: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million a Year." Blodget tells his team to think of the site as talk radio: He wants readers to feel compelled to check in several times a day to get the Alley Insider view on everything going on in their world./p pFor privacy, we duck into a small conference room, and Blodget, tall and skinny, sinks into a ridiculously deep leather chair. His floppy dirty-blond hair gives him a youthful, almost carefree air, but the deep circles that ring his eyes tell a different story. He's managing a 24-hour news startup. It's midday and he's been posting since 5 am. And then there's the burden that comes with being Henry Blodget, digital punching bag./p p"There are obviously a lot of folks who say, 'Now wait a minute, isn't that the guy who....'" He lets the thought trail off. He's legally barred from talking about the incidents that led to his vilification. "To them, I'm emthat/em Henry Blodget. There's not much more I can say. I still can't address specific points. So it's like, 'OK, here's my face. Throw the fruit. When you want to stop throwing the fruit, if you want to listen, great. If you don't, fine.'"/p pIt's been almost a decade since the impulse to greet him with rotten mangos first struck. Back in 1998, as a 32-year-old analyst with investment bank CIBC, he a href="http://www.thestreet.com/markets/analystrankings/977502.html"declared/a that the stock price of Amazon.com would nearly double to $400. Three weeks later it did, and Blodget was a hero. Soon he packed up his spreadsheets mdash; he's never more comfortable than when he is lining up numbers in rows and columns and teasing out their secrets mdash; and moved to Merrill Lynch./p pInvestors followed the new oracle's every utterance, and bankers wanted Blodget to bless the stocks of companies they were hoping to do business with. The lines on his graphs always seemed to point one way mdash; steeply up and to the right. He wasn't just predicting profits, he was selling a revolution: The old metrics didn't apply. Blodget may have counseled people to own only a small percentage of Internet stocks mdash; 10 percent at the most mdash; but nobody listened./p !-- pagebreak -- div id="embed" style="width:370px;" div id="pic" style="width:350px;" img style="width:350px;" src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_blodget3_f.jpg" alt=""/ div id="caption" Launched in 2007, Silicon Alley Insider is gaining on some of its established rivals. br/ emSource: Compete/em /div /div /div pThen came the crash. Five trillion dollars in wealth vaporized in 24 months, leaving behind unquantifiable amounts of rage among the masses of day traders who had believed briefly that they, too, were market savants. When the bubble burst, so did Blodget's aura./p pStill, it wasn't the crash alone that crushed him. It took Eliot Spitzer to turn Henry Blodget into emthat/em Henry Blodget. Spitzer, then New York's crusading attorney general, investigated Merrill in 2001 for conflicts of interest. He discovered a clutch of emails from the young analyst showing that while talking up certain stocks to clients, he was trashing them internally. Companies like 24/7 Media, Excite@Home, and InfoSpace mdash; firms Merrill was publicly cheering mdash; in private were deemed by Blodget to be "shit," "crap," and "junk" (respectively). According to Spitzer's findings, Blodget would have pulled in $12 million in 2001 mdash; quadruple his earnings in 1999 mdash; if he hadn't accepted a buyout that year. In 2003, Merrill's boy genius agreed to pay a $4 million fine and accepted a lifetime ban from working in the securities industry./p pPublic disgrace usually drives a person into hiding, or at least into a different career. Jerry Levin, the brains behind the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger, today runs a href="http://moonviewsanctuary.com/staff"Moonview Sanctuary/a, his wife's spa; Spitzer, forced to resign as governor last summer, is currently discovering the a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2008/06/10/spitzers-next-act-distressed-real-estate/"joys of real estate management/a; Health South CEO Richard Scrushy, while on trial for accounting fraud, a href="http://www.richardmscrushy.com/biography.aspx"became a televangelist/a. Not Blodget./p pOne former colleague says Blodget spent the months when he was being investigated trying to grasp why he was singled out for something that was commonplace in the industry. He figured the controversy would blow over once the public realized his conduct was not unusual. "He was incredulous that the investigation got traction; he said it was silly," a friend says. But there was too much anger in the wake of the bubble, and Blodget's embarrassing emails made him an easy scapegoat. Later, when he was inclined to argue his case, the settlement terms prevented it./p pSo Blodget did what came naturally. He began writing about the companies he used to cover, a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2104656/"first for Slate/a, then on his own blog, a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/"Internet Outsider/a. Was this journalism mdash; or was it therapy? Rather than hide, he started saying in public what he had once said only in private, using the same brutally frank voice that got him in trouble with Spitzer. He marketed his notoriety to a new Web readership hungry for smart, independent analysis./p pWhen Ryan, an Internet Outsider reader, approached him about starting an industry news site, Blodget jumped at the prospect of a bigger stage. Before working on Wall Street, he'd been a freelance writer; now he could combine the two vocations, borrowing freely from both journalism and equity research./p pThrough Alley Insider, Blodget is trying to erase, post by post, Spitzer's portrait of him as a duplicitous, money-grubbing shill for big business. Blodget has always believed that the Internet changed everything, so naturally he believes it has the power to change the world's perception of him. The venue offers all Henry, all the time (and even when his other writers are posting, it's clear they're channeling him). The result is a unique blend of x-ray analysis and tech evangelism./p pAs we talk, Blodget gets up from his chair, antsy to return to his laptop. I ask him if he understands what he's up against. If the hate has lasted this long, why expect it ever to fade away? "If all I knew about me was what I read during that period," he says, "I'd probably have the same reaction."/p pstrongOn a late summer morning/strong, Blodget waits in the lobby of the Nasdaq building in midtown Manhattan. He's all banker today: blue suit, red tie, black cap-toed Oxfords, his shirt so deeply pressed there are creases down the sleeves. It's 10 am and, ready for his second breakfast, he pries open the plastic case of a turkey and Swiss sandwich and starts wolfing it down. In a few minutes he is supposed to conduct a video interview for Yahoo's Tech Ticker finance site. As soon as Blodget started appearing as a regular host in February, the Furies a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/650/Jerry-Yang-Strikes-Back;-Here%27s-Microsoft%27s-Next-Move?tickers=yhoo,msft"reemerged/a. "Did you not find any other decent, credible guy than Henry Blodget?" one of the first comments read. "Why spoil this new feature with such a scum and spoil the Yahoo reputation?"/p pAs producers prepare to tape the show, Blodget wipes his crumbs off the table. He explains the guiding vision behind Alley Insider. "We don't want to do things we don't care about," he says. "It's nice to say theoretically we're the judge of what's important and what's not, but come on, give readers credit. They'll tell you immediately what they want, and that drives coverage. People are fanatically interested in Apple, Google, Microsoft. It wasn't a tough call to know what to write about."/p pBlodget's focus on content is matched by his apparent indifference to the look of the site. Alley Insider employs a cookie-cutter template of scrolling headlines and thumbnail photos dragged off the Web. But design limitations notwithstanding, by September the site was getting nearly 500,000 visitors a month, rivaling a href="http://allthingsd.com/"AllThingsDigital.com/a, the citeWall Street Journal/cite blog edited by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. Since the beginning of the year, traffic to the site has more than doubled, and Blodget's words now carry surprising weight. When a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/apple-s-steve-jobs-rushed-to-er-after-heart-attack-says-cnn-citizen-journalist"he reported/a early this fall that Steve Jobs may have been rushed to the hospital after a heart attack mdash; citing an anonymous (and, as it turns out, fraudulent) post on a minor user-generated news site run by CNN called iReport mdash; Apple's a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/technology/apple/"stock dropped/a nearly 10 percent. Critics blamed Alley Insider./p p"I read citeThe New York Times/cite, citeThe Economist/cite, and Alley Insider," says a href="http://www.firebrandpartners.com/principals/index.html"Scott Galloway/a, head of investment equity firm Firebrand Partners, who is best known for his successful public fight to get on the board of citeThe New York Times/cite. "Henry takes a no-mercy, no-malice approach to Web business and media." Valleywag recently called him "the disgraced stock analyst everyone now listens to."/p !-- pagebreak -- div class="wide_img" img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_blodget2_f.jpg" alt="" div class="wide_caption" div class="wide_caption_txt" The team at Silicon Alley Insider (left to right): senior editor Dan Frommer, COO Julie Hansen, cofounder Kevin Ryan, and editor in chief Blodget. br/ emPhoto: Mike McGregor/em /div /div /div br/ br/ pFor all the success today, it took Blodget amp; Co. some time to figure out a winning formula. When Ryan, a New Yorker, launched the site in 2007, he wanted to cover the local startup and media scene. Blodget signed on as CEO and editor in chief, bought a minority stake, and hired citeForbes/cite journalists a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/peter_kafka"Peter Kafka/a and a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/dan_frommer"Dan Frommer/a to help him develop content (Kafka was later hired away by AllThingsD). The first few weeks, the site read like a tourist's guide to spotting B-list Internet companies in the big city, with each firm's location prominently announced: "NoHo-based Meetup has quietly launched a Facebook application"; "Flatiron-based YellowJacket Software has raised $1.25 million." Blodget branched out, taking on the bigger names himself mdash; Apple, Dow Jones, NBC, JP Morgan. It quickly became clear to him that New York's tech industry was too small an arena to contain the ambition of the site. And nearly half the readers were in California anyway./p pAlley Insider soon dropped its Silicon Alley focus but stuck with the moniker. And Blodget began to draw more heavily on his research experience. He created financial models of the companies he was talking about and posted the spreadsheets as Google docs so anyone could download and toy with them. He analyzed the potential revenue YouTube could bring to Google, mapping out his assumptions about viewership and ads watched, and offering a clear bottom-line conclusion. Readers weighed in with their critiques, which Blodget used to sharpen the model. He figured he wouldn't just write about Wall Street, he would also usurp part of Wall Street's business by providing high-quality research, the kind brokerage customers used to prize./p pBut visitors to the site wanted more than analytics. They also craved the edgier Henry of the Spitzer emails. Blodget obliged. In one post, a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/1/ben_stein_is_an_idiot"Blodget declares/a citeNew York Times/cite economics columnist Ben Stein to be either "an idiot" or possibly just "delusional." He suggests that the anonymous sources cited by archrival TechCrunch in its reporting on Microsoft's attempt to purchase Yahoo "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/yahoo_stock_fades_as_techcrunch_microsoft_takeover_sources_sober_up"must have been drunk/a." And in November 2007, when E-Trade lost $9 billion in value as its risky mortgage bets turned to dust, Blodget offered only one piece of advice to the company's shareholders: "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/etrade_etfc_total_cost_of_screwup_9_billion"Cry/a."/p p"On Wall Street, I'd consistently submit a report that would say, 'This is going to be roadkill,' and it would come back rewritten as 'We see some weakness,'" Blodget says. "Now I can say, 'It's going to be roadkill.' That's very satisfying."/p pBut even as he delights in railing against corporate giants, he's still disciplined enough to run the underlying numbers mdash; Blodget loves the drama, but he loves the spreadsheets just as much. One post about craigslist should have been something only an accountant could love: a complex set of assumptions and analyses to determine what the company might be worth. Yet Blodget wrote the whole exercise as if it were a mystery plot, parceling out details and stringing the reader along until the very end./p pWhen Yahoo announced this summer that it had hired Bain amp; Co., a consulting firm usually brought in when a company is about to start swinging the ax, Blodget a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/yahoo-fat-farm-how-many-people-does-yahoo-need-to-fire-to-get-fit-"sharpened his own pencil/a. "We're mad as hell ... especially now that Yahoo's wasting millions on Bain." He offered his own, free advice (spreadsheet attached) cataloging how many people Yahoo should fire in each division mdash; 1,804 from its "positively obese" sales and marketing arm alone mdash; in order to goose operating margins to a "more respectable" 20 percent from its current 7 percent. "He pushed us early on to ask, 'What does this mean for profits? How does any news affect a company's numbers?'" Frommer says. "It's great if it makes a company look bad or look good, but is this really going to affect the numbers?"/p pBlodget is also trying things that no mainstream-journalism-trained blogger like Swisher or GigaOm's a href="http://gigaom.com/"Om Malik/a would ever dare. He makes serious-sounding offers to buy companies that he wants to demonstrate are significantly undervalued. It's pure showmanship, but with Blodget's background in finance and his ties to folks up and down Wall Street, no one knows just how far he will take the joke./p pHis first target was CNET. With the a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/announcing_our_friendly_takeover_offer_for_cnet"slightest of winks/a, he wrote a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/1/cnet_update_on_our_offer_and_restructuring_plan_part_1"post after post/a explaining how he'd a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/jana_here_s_our_plan_for_cnet"purchase the company/a. At first he proposed a sort of reverse merger, with CNET buying Alley Insider for $50 million in stock, at which point Blodget's team would take over every aspect of the company. Then he detailed the operational changes he would make./p !-- pagebreak -- pRyan got nervous about Blodget's new direction. Blodget's deal with the government forbade him from giving individual research advice, but it didn't say anything about jumping into the private-equity space. Still, there might be legal issues. "Look, why don't we run this by a lawyer just to make sure, because we're getting into securities stuff here," he said to Blodget. When the lawyer asked them "Is this a real offer?" there was a brief silence. For the first time the two really thought about it./p p"You know, yes," Ryan replied. "If they said yes, we would accept $50 million at that time to buy them. So it is a real offer. But we're actually asking them to buy us." The lawyer signed off on the convoluted reasoning./p pAfter Blodget's taunting posts went up, investment firm JANA Partners announced a hostile takeover attempt of CNET. It failed, but by spring 2008 CBS a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/cbs_buying_cnet_for_1_8_billion"stepped in to buy/a the company for $1.8 billion./p pFor one CNET executive, memories of Blodget's unwanted attentions still rankle. "The way you make a big name for yourself on the Web today is to make, for lack of a better word, ridiculous statements," says Zander Lurie, former senior VP of strategy and development at CNET and now CFO of CBS Interactive. Lurie found himself reassuring employees who sent him Blodget's postings and wondered whether their company was at risk. "Everyone knew there was nothing in the offering: He didn't have the capital, the expertise, or any specific insight into our business," Lurie says. "He makes the ridiculous statement and it gets sent all around, and then he claims credit when there's an event the following year, which obviously he had nothing to do with. Less than zero to do with. We all have reputations. And his track record is well known."/p pBlodget has been a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/how-the-new-york-times-nyt-can-save-itself"waging another/a half-serious acquisition fight, this time for the New York Times Company. All he wants is the Web site mdash; the print side is dead, he says. He thinks the paper needs to cut about 80 percent of its costs, at which point it would be the perfect size to be the digital paper of record for a long time to come. "It's a serious offer from our perspective, but it hasn't been taken seriously," Blodget says./p pstrongIn the wake of Wall Street's latest meltdown/strong, Blodget finds himself in even greater demand. He's doing regular TV appearances and is posting again on Slate. When NPR wanted someone to talk about the Wall Street culture of greed, they a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94667073"brought in Blodget/a. The reporter introduced him by pointing out that Merrill is now gone, "and Henry Blodget is gone, too; he's banned from Wall Street after being charged with fraud."/p p"Thanks," Blodget said, stuttering for a second, "especially for that horrific introduction." They both laughed. But by the end, the host was treating Blodget like an elder statesman./p pRecently Blodget has been expanding his franchise. He and Ryan have launched two sister sites: a href="http://www.clusterstock.com/"Clusterstock/a, which will compile and analyze Wall Street research on a much wider range of industries, and a href="http://www.businesssheet.com/"the Business Sheet/a, which will focus on corporate scandals. A third is in the works. For each new site, Blodget provides the bulk of the early posts, seeding the new enterprise with the Blodget touch./p pBlodget is broadening beyond tech to get ready for what he sees as a coming shakeout in the news-blog industry. He says he might even start making acquisitions if the price is right. Ryan's suite of companies has raised $50 million in the past few years, possibly enough to buy out some other interesting small blogs. The winning formula for this new kind of business remains elusive: It's a matter of finding the balance between gossip and analysis, between aggregating news from other sources and doing original reporting. Revenue models that go beyond basic advertising have also been slow in coming. "If you look at the development of every new medium, there's been a new form of journalism that has been made possible by it, and there has always been this period of transition," Blodget says. "There is collective experimentation as people figure out what works and what doesn't, and usually you have some very important publications that are built."/p pAnother way to expand is to sell to a larger media company. Blodget says he'd consider an offer, but Alley Insider is still defined almost entirely by one man. If he left, the value would plummet. Also, some media institutions mdash; the grayer, stodgier ones mdash; may find Blodget's unique baggage unacceptable. The endless barrage of comments, the angry mob that seems to follow him everywhere, may be too much for the sensitivities of some management teams, even in these freewheeling days of media transformation. When Blodget wrote a few small items for citeThe New York Times/cite, the newspaper's a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11pubed.html"ombudsman went haywire/a. "The citeTimes/cite luster may help Blodget," he wrote last year, "but some of his taint rubs off on the citeTimes/cite."/p pIt's just the sort of comment Blodget has come to expect from, well, everyone. That may change, but only if this latest reinvention succeeds in burying his past forever. In which case, he will have been right: The Internet really does change everything./p pemSenior writer Daniel Roth /em(a href="mailto:daniel_roth@wired.com"daniel_roth@wired.com/a) emwrote about the a href="/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-09/ff_agassi"future of the electric car/a in issue 16.09./em/pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:e5509a1338aa2d046a0f36f53c86fd46:KTSfKmr30cBfHohgGm6zBCE5aLDI579Ry5%2FoG9QrW9e1KIT2xpDAJhCNE%2FP6%2BodTaIRTxDwhJCc5xg%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:85af8ef1f22075639f5e1be7151d039b:KjXRBL7FimCdPfkcPkDUOZbe%2BR8tiL4gaeJxl%2FnucFQ8UL28mzRmZSeHpMqoJwFUINppaALMULUa'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:db4d557cf92ff9467e13e01b1aee6530:PWDj6Lri2aPp2F0l1o37LwimABRJS%2Bw%2FOQMMPSWuRMZRLZhLRGI4Q9jz2JLAIoyYna2BguNYIBWs'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:064842e7a9d26f4e96559df7ad75369c:Ri7lRQ2YuIojw9J42qFhanIkt9g%2B2lNj7ky0mPfhji4DJCDrd66IrgRLO78oVkOke9RGBuQDA3ra'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c54405cdda6d6c80dfe38fdee8a0c2a5p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c54405cdda6d6c80dfe38fdee8a0c2a5p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c54405cdda6d6c80dfe38fdee8a0c2a5" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=V04TVZ"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=V04TVZ" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/474334201" height="1" width="1"/

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