The first week of a new year, people want two things overall: a new body and a new job. Last week we found out that on New Year’s Day, visits to dieting websites spiked by 57 percent. By the end of the week it seems all that dieting is going toward a new suit as visits to job site jump by 31 percent.

Of the 175-plus feeds I track using Bloglines, it can be daunting to look at all of them at once. They might as well be stacks of magazines piled up on my desk.

You may not have considered it, but if you’re starting an internet business, you’re starting an actual business-and that means constructing a legal entity, usually a sole proprietorship, a LLC, or a corporation.

Upward movement with new beta versions of a couple of offline blog editors I’m trying out:

Over half of the business executives in The Netherlands and Germany find blogging a mystery; and, although French executives are au fait,’ few of them are bloggers.

Google wants to drag the clock builders and chocolate makers out of their Old Europe brick-and-mortar mindset into the gleaming silicon-driven online marketplace, preferably with a Google Base account at the foundation of those efforts; we suggest a partnership that could help make this happen.

CNet has some interesting insights on business travelers who blog.

Companies that offer RSS reader products and services are now in a race against time, as Microsoft prepares RSS functionality within Outlook.