This column highlights the most interesting and useful business and financial commentary from around the Web each day. Use our comments section to post your own suggestions for blog content that you've read or written.   Venture Beat Link: Crowdfunding raised $1.5B last year — and is on track to double in 2012 "Until Kickstarter started gaining attention for giving people a place to raise huge amounts of money very quickly the term crowdfunding didn’t mean much. Now crowdfunding has become a full-fledged industry contributing $1.5 billion to new ventures in 2011. That total includes pledges from average people backing quirky projects like ...