Puzzle pieces still missing

Yes, I'm still here. And yes, there is still interest in the fake news agencies as you can see from some of today's search queries. And yes, yes, yes, I'm still hoping to get to the bottom of this story.

Paul Clinton of Squared Financial Services

According to LinkedIn, his profile is viewed by people who are interested in Econolive and World Business Press Online.

The weather in Tokyo: it's hot!

FX traders showing interest in Japan these days.

Update on Canadian Economic Press (CEP News), Need to Know News (NTKN), Econolive, World Business Press (WBP Online)

There's been a surge of interest in the bizarro "news agencies" and their relationships with proprietary tradings companies lately. If you have a piece to the puzzle, I'd love it if you'd contact me at ann.brocklehurst@gmail.com.

And let me just throw something else out there for you while I'm at it-- what do you suppose Potomac Radio is doing in the economic lock-ups?

“The single best thing you get from the Web is the ability to be proven wrong fast”

                 -Avinash Kaushik, Google's self-described "analytics evangelist" 

So, if you haven't been wrong lately, that's probably not a good thing.

I especially like this example from Kobo's Michael Tamblyn. The company did a complete about-face when it realized its main premise was wrong and now Kobo ereaders are selling like hot cakes.