Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

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When Sumner Redstone fired Tom Freston at Viacom (VIA - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), part of his reasoning was that Freston wasn't moving fast enough in the digital arena.

Blogging Stocks has some interesting speculation that Viacom and Yahoo! (YHOO - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) could merge and be serious competition for Time Warner (TWX - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr).

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13D Tracker outlines all of Dan Loeb's recent requests to Nabi (NABI - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) from his 13D filing.

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Monty's Bluff looks at Coke's (KO - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) new caffeinated drink, Blak.

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I believe YouTube will ultimately be a great company. But Dead 2.0 does a good job disagreeing, and I believe analysis is interesting.

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Capital Spectator speculates we could be in a third-quarter rebound in the economy.

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Can Ford (F - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) go private?

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Great survey from ContraHour of the water utility stocks.

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Sort of funny (or sad) -- a social network for BlackBerry users.

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Ben Stein wants to outlaw management buyouts. Dealbreaker summarizes the heated debate.

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Tech Crunch wonders if eBay (EBAY - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) is the investment bank of Web 2.0. This is really a fascinating concept, and it's entirely possible that within the year we can see Dutch-style auctions for offerings on eBay.

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Quant Investor puts a new spin on Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula.

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Terry Tate, office linebacker.