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 Quote), 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 Quote) could merge and be serious competition for Time Warner (TWX Quote).

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

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Monty's Bluff looks at Coke's (KO Quote) 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 Quote) 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 Quote) 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.