Only in Japan could they come up with such a thing. Japanese linen company, Kamei sells the Boyfirend’s Arm Pillow "designed to cradle the lonely sleeper".

The site lists these advantages over a real boyfriend:

I read the Chicago Tribune on Sunday about bloggers and they mentioned some interesting statistics:

8 million bloggers (7% of the US internet population)

32 million blog readers (25% of the US internet population)

46 million internet users who do not know what a blog is

I came across Tara Branigan’s site, Capitalist Chicks a few months back.

She reviews the book this month!

I love how she describes her business:

"We believe that Capitalism is the only moral and practical economic system. Only Capitalism offers individuals the opportunity to create, produce and exchange freely with […]

I saw some interesting statistics in Sarah Stambler’s E- Tactics Newsletter on click through trends. For those of you that have received my broadcast emails, you know that I am a big proponent of email marketing. I found this part of the report (from E-Sherpa) interesting on popular clickthrough rates (CTR):

I have had a few inquiries about doing some "podcasting". I was only vaguely familiar with the concept.

Dave Winer at Ipodder.org describes it this way:

"Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new stuff from all of the feeds together, or each feed […]

You can find almost anything on the web? According to GQ magazine, Blackfoot Canvas Company has diversified their tepee business and now distributes a line of canvas diapers that could be used by your favorite sumo wrestler.