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Marc Andreessen is a remarkably smart and successful man. So why is he being so stupid about the way content is—and will be—delivered electronically?

The New York Times' Bits blog reports that in late April, Facebook users will be able to share their locations with friends. From the post:

Hulu regularly sends a list of its top shows to the news media. Every time it does, Hulucination may or may not present them without comment. Below is the list from Feb. 15-Feb. 21.

Daniel Angerer, chef and owner of Klee Brasserie in Manhattan's Chelsea district, has mounted a rather clumsy and fairly gross publicity stunt: serving cheese made with his wife's breast milk.

Great restaurants and great chefs don't have to rely on gimmicks. And great chefs care more about food than they do about attention. Angerer is an Iron Chef winner.

Over the last few months, several missteps have led some commentators, including your humble servant, to wonder if Google (GOOG) has been so trapped by an engineering-oriented corporate culture that it just can't grok emerging modes such as social media. The potholes that accompanied the roll-outs of Nexus One and Google Buzz are the most dramatic examples, but this question has been lurking in the Googlesphere for some time before that.

The world of online video measurement is supremely weird. One metric zigs left while a related number zags right, and watching it all happen from afar just looks like a tangled mess. All the numbers have different methodologies, and the sites being measured only protest if they’re being undercounted. They stay silent if it’s the other way around.

Things aren't looking too good for California, and the situation is more dire for Greece. But what exactly are the rules on states and countries declaring bankruptcy? California is accountable to the United States, and the European Union can decide Greece's fate.