It took them awhile, but the “Street View” gang at Google Maps finally drove around Nashville and, gee, you can now do stuff like embed this panoramic view of the intersection outside my office window. That’s me up in the seventh floor of the building that looks super-thin in this photo (like, say, a MacBuilding Air). While I won’t get too privacy-invasive by displaying or linking to it, I’m happy to note that the Street View vehicle apparently drove by my home (not the location on the embedded shot, but another one) on a beautiful fall afternoon right after the lawn had been cut.

As Google Maps fans know, there are individuals who enjoy going through Street View photos looking for weird happenings that got snapped during the drive-bys. No doubt, there is a strong possibility of some weird sightings among the Nashville shots.

Bonus: Link to Nashville “Street View” Map: After clicking through to this link, click on the camera icon, then click on “zoom in” and then move the little “lego-man-ish” icon to a location to view the panorama from that spot.

For some reason, there seems to be a problem with the automagic feature of del.icio.us that makes a daily post here of all the sites I’ve bookmarked during the previous 24 hours. Until I (or they) get it figured out, I’ll leave this post open for a 24 hour period and add links to it:

PaidContent.org re-orgs | Paidcontent.org

Congrats to Rafat, Staci on the solid strategy they are executing. And while I’m on this topic, what’s with the early-morning weirdness from Silicon Alley Insider this a.m.? In what can only be described as bizarre, Henry Blodget wrote — and then took down — some of the most misleading crap I’ve seen him write since, say, around 2000.

The Atlantic Hires Away Publisher of Wired | NYTimes.com

Quote: “For Mr. Lauf, 44, the move is more unorthodox, taking him from a larger, more lucrative magazine to a smaller, less prosperous one. Observation: What’s so unorthodox about that? Most magazine publishers today are moving from larger more lucrative magazines to smaller, less prosperous ones — without even changing jobs.

The Internet Effect on News | TIME

Quote: “If you say something provocatively, in a new way, or with an unexpected spin, you will succeed online. If you play it safe, you will not. So we see the difference in style between the Politico story and, say, Adam Nagourney’s more nuanced story on the same topic a day earlier or again in another story today. Suffice it to say, Friday’s Politico story earned a Drudge link over the weekend, and Nagourney’s did not. That’s money in the bank for Politico.”