Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur  —  Consider this response that I just received (identifying information removed) from a venture capitalist I emailed to discuss a new investment: … I remember the days before email.  For those of you who don’t …

Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist  —  Earlier this year the New York Times detailed how careers in medicine and law - formerly bankable lifetime gigs - have lost their luster.  College grads instead are pouring their resources into trying to create (or join) the next Facebook or MySpace.

David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
Reporting live from a cellphone near you …  Jason Calacanis uses a Nokia cellphone to stream live.  He reports regularly.  —  The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web.  In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed?  —  GET ready for your […]

Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Shoppers are discovering an upside to the down economy.  They are getting price breaks by reviving an age-old retail strategy: haggling.  —  A bargaining culture once confined largely to car showrooms …

Matt Richtel / New York Times:
At Megastores, Hagglers Find Prices Are Flexible  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Shoppers are discovering an upside to the down economy.  They are getting price breaks by reviving an age-old retail strategy: haggling.  —  A bargaining culture once confined largely to car showrooms and jewelry stores …

Let's Make Robots!:
Yellow Drum Machine  —  There is always more fun to do with this robot, but for now I will just mark it “complete” in the current version, hope you enjoy it.  —  Notice how the robot first plays on the object it finds (or is forced to find by the angry cameraman), […]

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking  —  Left, I.B.M. employees with a z10 mainframe, part of the latest generation of the computers and designed for new tasks.  Right, an older iteration of the mainframe, I.B.M.’s System/360.  In the 1960s, it introduced technology still in use today.