Business Insider editor Jim Edwards found a way to disrupt disclosures: buying $1,000 of Twitter stock. "I found that owning stock made me much more sensitive to news about the companies and what was going on inside them."

This past Friday, Business Insider's Kyle Russell (above) covered an anti-eviction protest that targeted a high-ranking Google exec. While walking home, Russell put on his Google Glass, at which point he says it was torn off his face and smashed to bits.

New York's startup scene has a considerable advantage over Silicon Valley: it's not fully of technolibertarian, amoral, poorly dressed Stanford-dropout vampires. It's a pretty normal bunch. But one thing the Alley is not, is cool--and if this Business Insider list is the best of the best, that's sad.

Mock their JUST ONE CHARTs all you want: news website Business Insider has raised $18.6 million in funding from powerful tech investors like Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Ryan, Institutional Venture Partners, and even Facebook underwriter Allen & Company. (It’s also omnipresent in your search engine results. Go ahead, Google something... businessy.) After the latest $5 million cash injection, founder, editor and CEO Henry Blodget said its goal was to “become the best digital business publication on the planet.”

New York magazine reports Pax Dickinson was "forced to resign as chief technology officer at Business Insider" after the internet read his tweets. We're waiting for confirmation from Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget.

What has two thumbs and a homophobic, racist, misogynistic, classist worldview? Pax Dickinson. We just noticed this vile Twitter account from Business Insider's chief technology officer today. But he's been at it for awhile.

John Gruber, a lively Apple blogger and probably the company's preeminent pro bono spokesperson, has a large following. It's a devoted following, too: so much so that he can sell $5 app that doesn't do things $0 versions do, and people lick it up.

Google Glass will blow you away, nobody is going to buy it, it will change the world forever, it's flawed, it's perfect, you'll never wear it, and you'll never be able to live without it. At least that's the takeaway if you've been reading BI's breathless, schizoid coverage of the trendy face computer.

Despite a recent investment from Jeff Bezos, Business Insider appears to be advertising for Facebook instead.