AOL LLC

For Rojas, the toil paid off handsomely. Last fall, AOL bought Jason Calacanis's company Weblogs, Inc., which includes Engadget, for $25 million. Rojas himself didn't disclose the precise amount he got from the deal, but he had a good deal of equity in the company and says that, technically, he doesn't need to work anymore. Nonetheless, he's still slogging away at Engadget because he's still obsessed with cool new technology. His idea of a good time is hunting down samizdat pictures of the latest Palm Treo. "I didn't intend to become a millionaire," he says, "but I wound up there anyway."

--"Blogs to Riches: The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom,", New York, Feb. 20

For Pete Rojas, blogging paid off handsomely. Last fall, AOL bought Weblogs, Inc., which includes his blog Engadget, for $25 million. "I didn't intend to become a millionaire," says Rojas, "but I wound up there anyway."

(Microsoft Said to Be in Talks on Forming Link to AOL, by Saul Hansell, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.)  read more »

To spare readers the sorrow, the Times held off on saying it till the eighteenth paragraph.

Joe Mercurio just emailed out copies of correspondence between him and the Fields campaign. The mid-March emails include .pdfs of the infamous flier, and the correspondence -- from Mercurio to top Fields aides and to Fields' own AOL account -- indicate Virginia could have seen before and after versions (links now work), and that her staff did.

That does not, obviously, necessarily mean she read the email.

In other bad news, Newsday reported today that Donna Brazile is skipping that fundraiser.  read more »

OK, enough.