henry blodget is (still) an idiot

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henry blodget was kind of a big deal the first time the web was going to save the world. an internet analyst at merrill lynch, he was an early and vocal cheerleader for the likes of amazon.com et al. later, not so much. when the music stopped, henry was left without a seat - and the sec made him pay $4mm anyway! well, he wound up co-founding a news service of sorts called businessinsider.com. 

a recent pair of posts from the erstwhile seer of silicon alley had me scratching my head. they concerned tweetdeck, a popular twitter client with versions for a variety of platforms. last week, blodget declared tweetdeck dead, a victim of twitter's moves to control its channel. 

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