This is pretty good.

According to the National Confectioners Association, Easter confectionary sales have been trending upward, growing from $2 billion in 2009 to $2.02 billion in 2010. The group’s projections for 2011 top $2.062 billion in sales.

Nola.com reports.

See those plunging lines in the chart up there? No, those aren’t measuring income or available jobs or common sense in the public discussion … they’re measuring traffic to the Gawker network of Web sites. That top line is Gizmodo. Owtch. The plunge is the result of a redesign. Raw Feed explains.

“I am so busy doing nothing … that the idea of doing anything — which as you know, always leads to something — cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”
—Jerry Seinfeld

That’s the title of a piece by Ashlee Vance in this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, and it’s well worth the read.

My favorite part of the article doesn’t have to do with the social media-fueled investment bubble we’re in, though. It’s this quote from Jeff Hammerbacher, one of Facebook’s first 100 employees:

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

Tru dat.