Links: 2010-01-04

Welcome to the working week, new decade version! Me? Still thinking it’s 2009, though. Just changed the date to 2010.

• Seesmic acquires Ping.fm – The Next Web
• Yahoo Can Relax a Little (But Just a Little)–This Year’s BoomTown Obsession Might Have to Be AT&T | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD (A friend says of the attached video Swisher takes: " she actually appears to post video of her failed iPhone calls on AT&T — WHILE SHE IS DRIVING ON THE 101!!!")
• The Big Picture – Barry Ritholtz – Banking Sector Remains (literally) Unchanged
• The Weather According to Economic Forecasters: Sunny! – Paul Kedrosky
• FT Alphaville – Stacy-Marie Ishmael – Professional athletes and their money, Ponzi edition
• YouTube- Using the IT Dashboard – U.S. Government Spending (For you data geeks, this is a good way to get up to speed on how the government spends IT dollars. Good transparency. Hat tip Bart. The actual site is: https://it.usaspending.gov/)
• Washington Redskins fire Jim Zorn fired after two seasons: ‘Status quo not acceptable’ – ESPN
• Bernanke Still Does Not Understand Credit Crisis – Barry Ritholtz
• PIMCO – Cyclical Outlook Paul McCulley December 2009
• Social Network Removes 5,000 Users For Putting On Weight During Holiday Season
• Paul Krugman – That 1937 Feeling – NYTimes.com (Of course we are repeating 1937. But if Obama had presented effective policy instead of bailing out every big company in sight, there wouldn’t be as vocal a cry from deficit hawks. He blew it and he now has about zero political capital.)
• Recession will lead to ‘lost generation’ of young people |UK news |The Guardian

Today’s Bread & Circus feature: Avatar, the new Titanic