I was reading Rafit Ali's blog and saw two comments of interest. One mentioned that Bart Catalane, the second ranking executive at Ziff Davis Media was leaving the company which follows on the heels of the ZD CFO leaving a few weeks ago. Rafit rightly quesitons if Bart's leaving is just business or is it a sign of further troubles at ZD? One has to think it is the latter as ZD will find it difficult if not impossible to ever escape from its mountain of debt.

The other comment was about a group of blogs that are being knitted together in the science field. This is a model that is a knock-off of Jason Calacanis' Weblogsinc that was recently sold to AOL. We must give credit to Jason for thinking up a blog business model that will be copied for years to come.