Pilgrim’s Picks for October 23

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |

Maybe they’ll be some bigger news later today, but right now it’s slim-pickings. Here’s the wheat we separated from the chaff this morning.

Rob Hof has details of ProQuo, a new service that lets you filter the junk mail coming through your door. That’s good news for the environment!
A new Chancellor tries to block a blog critical of him. It backfires, and now everyone knows what a muppet he is.
Mothers of the ~~world~~ UK, unite! Mothercare has launched their own social network called Gurgle.com. The follow-up will be called burp.com, then yuck-she-threw-up-on-me.com.
The Unofficial Google Analytics Blog has discovered the price for the new Urchin 6 will be just under $3k.
Alibaba.com, China’s largest ecommerce company just had an IPO larger than Google’s!