Business reporter John Cook, who came to the P-I in 1999 and founded a cottage enterprise of entrepreneurship coverage (including his Venture Blog), and tech reporter Todd Bishop (at the P-I since 2002, and author of the Microsoft Blog) are departing the P-I, leaving two huge holes in the daily's business coverage and web stats. Outside of sports, their blogs were the top traffic-getters for the P-I website, and both are award-winning reporters. What makes......

Today John Cook mentioned a new, locally based social networking site in his Venture Blog: ListenToYourWife.com. Howard Ro, the husband in the husband-and-wife team behind the site, explains: Ro, an IT consultant, says that many married women feel as if they are not "being heard." "It's not due to abuse or neglect, but just due to the nature of male dominance in a marriage," he said. "We wanted to create a forum for wives to......

The PI's John Cook offered the best short summary of what's new at Zillow in his Venture Blog today: Big changes at Zillow.com today, with the company overhauling its Web site to include user-generated for sale listings, a real estate wiki and a new service called "Make Me Move" that allows any home owner to set a dream price for their home on the site. You can get more sober and insightful discussion from Zillow's......

John Cook, on his Venture Blog, is chumming for comments -- or rather, asking a good, thought-provoking question: Here's what I would like to know: What is the worst idea in Seattle high-tech history? Some may claim Microsoft Bob, others might say online errand service MyLackey.com. There's got to be plenty more out there. What do you think?Readers have suggested Kozmo, Mercata, Vulcan's FlipStart, and the late lamented Homegrocer.com. Seattlest vaguely remembers some small, plucky......