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NY Times: The Year of the Simpler Gadget — Nintendo has sold more than 30 million Wii game consoles since they were introduced two years ago. But at $250, it is outselling the more expensive Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation 3 combined by almost 2 to 1.

The Long Tail: Do something new every three years

KK Lifestream: This new economy has three distinguishing characteristics:…

BoingBoing: A visit to the coldest town on Earth

NY Times: For Conservative Radio, It’s a New Dawn, Too

NY Times: The Media Equation: Newspaper Shuns Web, and Thrives — At a time when most big newspapers are embracing the Internet as their future salvation, a small weekly in New Jersey is shunning it, and thriving.

WSJ: U.S. Developers Seek Their Own Bailout

Paid Content: SEC Mandates Interactive Filing; Will Start Phasing In Next Year

Bloomberg: Commercial Loan Defaults May Triple as Rents Decline

ReadWriteWeb: Cyber War Games Confirm Flaws in US Security

AP: Toyota projects first loss in 70 years

WSJ: My, How U.S. Energy Consumption Has Changed

THR.com: Study: Young people watch less TV

TechCrunch: Facebook Is Gaining Ground On Google In Time Spent On The Internet

Wired: Danish Supercar Sports 1,104 Horsepower — Danish boutique automaker Zenvo’s new ST1 redefines “excessive.” The turbocharged supercar accelerates superfast (over 60 mph in three seconds) and the company claims it’ll go into production next year.

NY Times: The Reckoning: Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble — A 1997 change that ended the capital gains tax on home sales was a new incentive to plow money into real estate.

Publishing 2.0 —When A Newspaper Stops Publishing In Print, What Happens To The Print Advertising Dollars? — daily newspapers are seeing about a quarter to one-third of the ad buy when ad dollar go from print to online.

CNNMoney — Sign of the times: Stolen Christmas trees

NY Times: Madoff Scandal Shaking Real Estate Industry — Commercial brokers and developers had heavily invested with Bernard L. Madoff, whose business style mirrored the practices of the real estate world.

WSJ: BlackBerrys Again Get Sleeker but Can’t Challenge iPhone

WSJ: One Man’s Quest to Catch Bernard Madoff

WSJ: How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs

TechCrunch: Death To The PR Embargo — PR firms are out of control. Today we are taking a radical step towards fighting the chaos. From this point on we will break every embargo we agree to.

ReadWriteWeb: Top Marketing Geeks Make Their Predictions for 2009

MSNBC: Bury me with my cell phone

Drudge: Top 10 News and Media Category Websites By US Market Share

Washington Post: HUD Chief Calls Aid on Mortgages A Failure

NY Times: S.E.C. Looks into Family Ties With Madoff Firm

CNNMoney.com — Three days that shook the world

Lessing: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal

NY Times: Madoff’s Sanctum, Where Wealth Went to Vanish

NY Times: The Novel That Predicted Portland — “Ecotopia,” the ’70s cult novel, has seeped into the American groundwater without becoming well known.

NY Times: Drilling Down: Contagion of Cheapness at Checkout —  If you’re planning to redeem coupons as you buy gifts this season, be forewarned: not only might other shoppers think you’re cheap, but the stigma could extend to the person behind you in line.

NY Times: Pensions Get a Reprieve in Congress

WSJ: Ex-Chief Says Intel Should Power Cars

Signal vs. Noise: When was the last time you looked at your business plan?

ReadWriteWeb: 40 Million Americans Now Contribute to Social Networking Sites

WSJ: White House Shifts as Auto Rescue Stalls

NY Times: Obama Team Set on Environment

CS Monitor: Was the New Deal too small?

NY Times: Even With Lifeline, Can Chrysler Survive?

Calculated Risk: Fed: Household Percent Equity Cliff Diving

TechCrunch: Twitter And HuffPo Take A Post-Election Breather

ReadWriteWeb: Report: Corporate Blogs Not Trusted — According to a new report by Forrester Research, corporate blogs are the least trusted information source of all. Only 16% of online consumers who read corporate blogs say that they trust them. And what is most trusted? Email from people you know, consumer product ratings/review and portals/search engines.

WSJ: New York Times Takes Steps to Aid Liquidity

CNNMoney: GMAC on the brink – why it matters

CNNMoney: Dow 4,000: 8 really, really scary predictions

Earth2Tech: Will the Economy Slow Utilities Entering Solar?

WSJ: How Much Does Pizza Delivery Cost?

Footnoted.org: What are they shopping for at Dillard’s?

NY Times: Workers Pay for Debacle at Tribune

Washington Post: Foreclosure Epidemic Infecting Rental Market

Bloomberg: Treasury Bills Trade at Negative Rates as Haven Demand Surges

Calculated Risk: The CRE Bust: Quick Overview

JD Lassica: How many US newspapers will fold in 2009?

Wired: Security Report: Most PCs Run Outdated, Hacker-Friendly Software —  Nearly all Windows-based PCs on the internet lack the latest versions of installed software, making them vulnerable to hackers exploiting old software bugs, a security company found. The results show how difficult it is to keep computers secure, as hackers look for ways into your system.

Wired: Apple Unlikely to Sell $99 iPhone, Netbook or Tablet

Evan Carmichael: The Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch In 2009

WSJ: Venture Capital Hits a Cash-Call Crunch

TechCrunch: The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It?

WSJ: Pressure Grows for GM to Oust Wagoner

NY Times: Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer — As more business and social life has moved onto the Web, criminals thriving on an underground economy of credit card thefts, bank fraud and other scams rob computer users of an estimated $100 billion a year …

NY Magazine: How Short-Seller Jim Chanos Is Profiting From the Suffering Stock Market

LA Times: Paul Volcker is back, and he warns of tough times ahead

BoingBoing: Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google

Washington Post: Mortgage Troubles Rise to Record Level — … the number of homeowners falling behind on their mortgages or already in foreclosure climbed during the third quarter and is poised to accelerate as the country’s recession deepens …

Footnoted.org: Merrill collects $25M on its way to oblivion…

Stephen R. Covey: Covey: Most Important Habit?

NY Times: News Coverage of Climate Entering ‘Trance’?