Valueclick ValueClick, one of the sole remaining public ad
network plays, is understandably desperate to cash in on the
online ad buyout frenzy.  So when a Wall Street analyst called
one of the company's business unit sleazy and downgraded the
stock on client defection concerns, the company had to act fast,
lest the resulting stock-collapse spook potential buyers.  This
seems the only plausible explanation for why ValueClick would
suddenly move its results call up by nine days, to this
morning.  The company will no doubt report blowout earnings and
lay waste to RBC analyst Jordan Rohan and the "advertiser
defection" concerns he cited in last Friday's downgrade (details
from MediaPost's Laurie Petersen).  The stock will likely pop
briefly on the news, as the market temporarily dismisses Rohan
as an idiot, and then fall again when it remembers that last
quarter's results are old news.  Valueclick and Rohan have been
at each other's throats since April, when Rohan suggested the
FTC would likely start investigati