21 Leaders for the 21st Century

Women's eNews, the independent women's news organization, is sponsoring "21 Leaders for the 21st Century." The gala dinner and reception will be held May 20 at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York. (Alas, I'm on the left coast.) Details here.

Drudge clearing $800K a year?

New in Biz2: The Secrets of Drudge Inc. How to set up a round-the-clock news site on a shoestring, bring in $3,500 a day, and still have time to lounge on the beach.

Run on a shoestring, the Drudge Report, a plain-Jane page of news links and occasional scoops, clears, by our back-of-the-envelope estimate, a cool $800,000 a year.

The secret war machine

Bruce Sterling in Wired magazine: Vice Admiral John Poindexter's role as cyberguru to the feds comes as a shock to those who think of him as just another convicted conspirator in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Transcript of Arnett interview

Here's the transcript of fired CNN reporter Peter Arnett's interview on Iraqi TV