Around the Web 10.10.08: Circuit City bankruptcy, spammer persistence, e-book extravagance
-- Cleanup on aisle two: Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In the meantime, it plans to keep its stores open for business -- well, except for the 155 it's closing. Associated Press via USA Today
-- MGM will become the first movie studio to post full-length films and TV shows on YouTube, but not the finest titles from its vaults. Get ready for such classics as "Bulletproof Monk." NYT
-- Barack Obama's vast online network of supporters could make his the nation's first truly wired presidency. WashPost
-- Now that's persistence: Spammers make money despite reportedly receiving, on average, only one response per 12.5 million messages sent. TechRadar
-- A $6,200 e-book? That's the price for the Kindle version of "Nuclear Energies," a three-volume collection of technical essays on energy. Gizmodo
-- VideoCrawler is a new online video search engine from ... AT&T? CNet
-- Glub, glub, glub. That's the sound of underwater stock options across Silicon Valley. That could hurt the ability of companies to keep their best employees. WSJ
-- Former Fox Interactive Media executive Michael Barrett joins Web start-up AdMeld as chief executive. PaidContent.org
-- Bad times for America means good times for online psychics. Wired
-- Chris Gaither
Image: Barack Obama collage by Absentee_Redstate via Flickr
