Sadly, we received word that one of our regular readers and contributors has decided not to visit us anymore. I was planning on linking to the post that turned him off, but sadly, it had the same effect on the project manager of the wikinomics blog who irreversibly deleted it. Ben has been a thoughtful reader for a while and we always enjoyed his comments; see here, here , here and here for examples.

In 1960, Mad Magazine had but a single subscriber in Haiti. When he advised them that he was not going to renew, the entire editorial staff went to Haiti to pay him a suprise visit and convinced him not to cancel. Now, Ben we know you live in Toronto (because you told us, not because we did any creepy URL tracing). Our head office is in Toronto, and we want you back.

Here are some bribes ideas of how we can court you:

- an invite to one of our staff beer nights

- a spot on the guest list at our friend Lenni Jabour’s stage show

- a “gently used” copy of the Wikinomics audiobook. It was narrated by this guy…who is very cool. You should have the sound on when you visit his site.

 The blog is enjoying an upward swing…please come along for the ride.