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"Technology has given consumers an option to tune businesses out, and tune each other in," said Forrester Research Director Chris Charron.

"On the flip side, technology has given businesses an opportunity to gain greater customer insights at a lower cost." techweb.com.

BACK AND Henry 'Internet bubble' Blodget.

At internetoutsider.com is the blog of one of the notorious characters of the Internet bubble era.

He's Henry Blodget who was Merrill Lynch's Internet analyst at the zenith of the bubble and who was later disciplined over conflicts of interest.

In his first posting (05 October), he writes: "Despite ten years of effort, vast technological and financial resources, and a legendary intensity, Microsoft is running a distant third in the web wars (behind Google and Yahoo!

) - and it continues to fall farther behind.

Importantly, this is almost the same competitive position Microsoft occupied in 1995, when Yahoo!

was run out of a dorm room and Google didn't exist.

Microsoft was trying desperately to win the Internet war then, and it has tried desperately every year since.

And despite all its assets, the best it has been able to do is run a distant third." Why?

"M...

Sure, I thought, he was probably a cad and a lothario — but he wouldn’t be all that different from a lot of jock-y high school guys the world over if he was.

Being a dog and a player didn’t make Joran a killer.

Other figures who were for a time ubiquitous in mainstream coverage of the Holloway disappearance went from sympathetic to irritating, in my view.

I grew tired and bored with Fox News’s coverage in particular.

My sympathy for Natalee’s mother, Beth Twitty, was often at war with being annoyed whenever I saw her on TV, again.

To this day, Greta van Susteren is still my favorite Fox talking head, but I stopped watching her show for fear of another Holloway segment that would actually contain absolutely no new info whatsoever.

The fates of some Americans who became associated with the case in particular almost hinted at some kind of curse over the whole thing.

Joe Mammana, the Philadelphia entrepreneur who inserted himself into the story by offering a reward for information leading to Natalee’s recovery, went from a kind of folk hero to felon.

Jamie Skeeters, a retired police commander who partnered with Dr.

Phil McGraw to explore the mystery of Natalee’s disappearance, passed away in late January.

Natalee’s mom, Beth, and her husband, Jug Twitty, filed for divorce.

Jor...