Liveblogging Yahoo's First-Quarter Earnings Call: Yahoo Paints by the Numbers!

BoomTown liveblogged Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings call with analysts today, which started at 2 pm PT. Earlier today, Yahoo said its net income spiked to $310 million, or 22 cents a share, in the period. On the call, CEO Carol Bartz talked about Yahoo as art and about borderline obsessives, like Van Gogh (and BoomTown).

Bacon Blogrolling

Who can resist an all-pork post yesterday in the New York Times about a recipe that has taken the Internet by, well, greasy storm? The piece, by Damon Darlin, chronicles what started out as an Internet marketing scheme for a site called BBQAddicts.com, but that has turned into one of the more popular dishes online of late. The dish? “Bacon Explosion.”