It's not easy selling a paywall. Just ask oft-failed entrepreneur Steven Brill, whose terrible copycat idea to save journalism with micropayments met stiff skepticism. His solution: Claim an ever-growing number of unnamed "clients," charted against uncooperative reality after the jump.

According to network-news statistician Andrew Tyndall, Jake "the Octagon" Tapper's inquiring face was on ABC News' air for 370 minutes—or six long hours—last year, making him the most unavoidable network news reporter of 2009.

Have you noticed how much bloggers and media people like naming their work after Raymond Carver's excellent 1981 short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?" They do. And they should please stop right now, please

How does "maverick" everyman John McCain stack up to "elitist" Barack Obama? Why, this handy charticle illustrating their assets in a side-by-side comparison speaks for itself. Spin this, you filthy rich basket case. Click through for bigger pic. [ProseBeforeHose]

So we're a little late to the game on this, but salaries for each of The Hills' principles were recently leaked by In Touch and now we've got a handy dandy chart! (Made by our Photoshop whiz Steven Dressler.) Look at their big dumb heads! It's like some sort of hell-crafted Mt. Rushmore! And look, as the sizes get smaller, how much more we're actually "interested." I'd watch a whole show of Lo and Whitney (but not Brody. Never, ever Brody)! Though I am curious about someone like Spencerina, Spencer's dimbulb sister? Does she get paid or is she-Clint Howard-esque-just allowed to hang around the set, getting nothing more than a free sandwich each day?

As the market closed today, Apple, the iPod and niche computer maker, surged past the $100 billion mark to finish with a market valuation of $102.7 billion dollars.

NICK DOUGLAS — Thailand will continue banning YouTube even though the user who posted a video mocking the king has taken it down. (There are still two pics on YouTube, says Thailand, that harm the king's sensitive sensibilities.) But Google says they'll work with Thailand to help censor YouTube. So who's outlawed in what country? Where is Google banned, and where's it just censored? And what's with North Korea? Let's answer this with the magic of charts!

Nick Carr, long-time flamebaiter turned linkbaiter, declares Wikipedia dead. (No fair pointing at the very live site!) We can't let Nick be the only one gunning for Steve Gillmor's coroner job. So in the interest of upping our own fake authority, here's Valleywag's table of what's wagged, sagged, and body-bagged. Apologies to Wired — that is, we're so very sorry.