While not directly related to Yahoo!, such news flow raises the profile of questionable Internet practices, and we think it increases headline risks for the group.

The bottom line is that, despite some longer-term issues, we think weak industry sentiment combined with some valid company-specific concerns have pushed the stock lower than is justified. We believe that the near-term positives outweigh the near-term risks.

We thought the new openness was refreshing.

Investors never like to see a company's name mentioned along side the term 'subpoena.

It will be interesting to see if other companies try to shut them out.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.