links for 2008-04-13

• Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale
  What would you pay for a 1,500 person blast list?
  (tags: rocketboom twitter new.media advertising finance)
• Harvard Alum Names Fake Award After Himself and Gets Bitch-Slapped by the Internets – IvyGate: The Ivy League blog. News, gossip, sex, sports and more at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale
  That this didn’t work restores my faith in humanity.
  (tags: narcissism aaron.chadbourne harvard)
• Two Speeches on Race – The New York Review of Books
  Garry Wills compares Obama on race and Wright with Lincoln at Cooper Union on abolitionism and John Brown.
  (tags: history politics race inequality lincoln obama)