Joshua Topolsky Leaves Engadget

Apparently Paul Miller was not an isolated experience.  I am sad to now know that I shall never attend an Engadget show here in New York.  Joshua Topolsky, aka Editor in Chief, is now out of the AOL box too.  Is Nilay next?  Hopefully they shall be coming back in a Huff-free incarnation pronto.

Engadget Loses Its CPU

*CORRECTION: He's apparently still hosting the show.

*JUST-IN: Topolsky is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A look at some of the SuperSuperHappy 1990s Pop Anthems and the Nasdaq Tech Bubble. Big Boom and Bubble and Bubblicious Major Chord Insanely Happy Problemless People Music

The Worst Tech Blogger Alive/The Worst Wall Street Blogger Alive...at the same time!??!?!?!?

I don't know how many of you have experienced the same abject disappointment I have going through this, but I'm going to go off about it anyways.  MarketWatch, a blog of a blog of a blog of the Wall Street Journal features this guy named Cody Willard with The Cody Word (I'm not even going to sink to linking it).  He is not only the worst tech blogger alive (sorry MG Siegler) yet also possibly the worst financial blogger in history....simultaneously.

I don't doubt that perhaps he is a good investor as he seems totally immersed in mobile (and who among us who has owned AAPL, RVBD, ARMH etc could doubt the power of mobile?).  What scratches my back the wrong way are his thoroughly ridiculous blogs which amount to nothing more than hard-core used-car-salesman-type pitches to buy his "Investment Report" on the state of mobile internetzzzz.

It's always something along the lines of, "We are REVOLUTION investors.  Do you want to make a bajillion dollars off of MOBILE INTERNET?  I made a load of money before and surely past performance is indicative of my kickass investments.  I know mobile and will make you a millionaire...."

You think I'm exaggerating?

Click Finding the Next Apple or Google Before Wall Street Does Only to Find Out it's a Blog About the Greatness of Cody Willard

Or maybe try this horrible of horribles: I Explain to You Profit-Taking by Giving You an Allegory About My Teenage BMX Bike Adventures, No Seriously I Do

Okay, we all know the internet is filled with this kind of rollicking 'prose', but what I dislike is that the majority of the times I get linked to his page, it's because the link read the regularly reputable and personal favorite of mine, the Wall Street Journal.  This is pure carrot-stick swindling and my clicks will no longer stand for it.

I don't want you to dangle Walter Mossberg in front of my face and give me this drivel.  Rupert Murdoch, you've got some splaining to do!!!!

Tech ETFs For the Guy Smart Enough to Admit He Can't Predict the Future

Once the whole Libyan crisis, huge income inequalities, protestors in Wisconsin, Republican Congress foolishly cutting all the wrong spending and possible hyperinflation worries subside you may want to buy some tech stocks...of course today's Arm Holdings can quickly become yesterday's pets.com so exponential technological development is no promise of profits.   Here's a handful tech ETFs for the Random Walk Down Wall Street index investor.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=tyh&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BHH&ql=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BIB&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fxl&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=HHH&ql=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PSI&ql=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PSJ&ql=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ptf&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=pxn&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=rom&ql=1

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XSD&ql=0

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=xlks&ql=1

*I'm not advocating investing in any of these.  I am not acting as an investment advisor.  I'm just saying looking at these graphs is fun.   Past performance is not indicative of future results. I do not guarantee any specific outcome or profit. You should be aware of the real risk of loss in following any strategy or investment discussed on this website. Strategies or investments discussed may fluctuate in price or value. Investors may get back less than invested. Investments or strategies mentioned on this website may not be suitable for you. 

Nexus S Coming to Sprint

The folks at chez Engadget are speculating about Sprint's huge booking block at CTIA being an indication of a flurry of new devices, including an HTC tablet, a 3D HTC and a Nexus S.  Let's cross our fingers, I want to dump my Samsung Moment I have with them ASAP.  My iPhone doesn't like sharing a pocket with something so obsolete.

Sprint to Bring out the Big Guns at CTIA?!?!?!?!????!!?!???!???!?!?!

What I'm Reading (or Watching):

Google Cranks Up M&A by Wall Street Journal

The Future of Surfing, Sensors on Board by Singularity Hub

Sony Ericsson Playstation Phone Reviews by Engadget

How Semantic Search is Changing Traditional and Social Media by Mashable

UC San Diego's Walshok on Technical Education and Employment on Bloomberg

Bloomberg on Windows 8 for Tablets

Taking a Break from the Net - There's an App for That by Wired

Cynthia Breazeal and the Rise of Personal Robots

America's Recovery: The New Normal by the Economist

Alchemists Ancient and Modern by The Economist

Microsoft Begs Users to Stop Using IE 6 by Mashable

Wordpress DDoS Attack by TechCrunch

Great Bill Gates Quote

Says Bill:

One thing I want to understand better is to what degree innovation that improves the human condition is reflected in economic figures.

Let’s say that someone invents a new bug spray that stops mosquitoes from biting people and is super cheap.

Or let’s say someone comes up with a way to replace hearts for people over 80 that enables them to live longer but that costs a lot of money.

I think that innovation does generally map to economic growth over time. But taking a particular innovation and quantifying its direct economic impact is hard.

For example I believe that because the Internet lets people find a lot more information a lot more easily and quickly, it is a much bigger benefit than the economic figures show.

So when people say middle class salaries have not gone up much I think that the “basket of goods” approach to measuring improvement inherently understates how much better life is now than it was in the past.