Good god, Google at $2,000 a share?

Oh, it’s just that Web sprite Henry Blodget, at it again, over at his blog on his site Silicon Alley Insider.

The former Wall Street analyst enjoyed brief fame in the last Internet mania for predicting that Amazon stock would go to $400 a share (and it did–but not for long!). Then later, he got investigated for touting stocks publicly that he disdained privately and, thus, was barred from the securities industry for life.

Yesterday, the can’t-help-himself Blodget wrote a much-noticed post arguing that the search giant’s stock could go nuclear.

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Our John Paczkowski of Digital Daily continued to brave the potential for falling ill from start-up fatigue from his hysterically funny live-blogging of Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, while BoomTown continued to wander the halls in search of snacks and a safe haven from PR minions.
To no avail, although we did have a [...]

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While we subjected our stalwart John Paczkowski of Digital Daily to the onerous and potentially mind-numbing task of live-blogging Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, BoomTown broke some news (on the Yahoo-Zimbra $350 million deal), wandered around and basically schmoozed.
In addition, cupcakes were had.
(The day also included a pricey payback lunch for a bet [...]

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I know it might begin to feel as if the “fake” Web site trend could be waning after the unmasking of the popular Fake Steve Jobs. (Is it just me or do you feel a touch of ennui, like after Sam and Diane finally did it on “Cheers”?)
But judging from the fake CrunchFood site, a [...]

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What is Om Malik going to announce at his party tomorrow night at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco?

Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called “The GigaOm Show.”
Along with tech lawyer [...]

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Is there a trend in my post yesterday about the deal former Hollywood execs Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman struck with Pepsi to make original online content that the entertainment and marketing arm of the beverage giant will have a chance to fund and sponsor?

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In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of “Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel,” TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a downturn to stop the madness.
“Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks,” he writes in earnest about how all that was once [...]

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