Post WaPo Madness
Apologies if some of your comments have been taking a while to show up. The Washington Post madness has meant we are overrun with spam, trolls and loons. I cranked the filters up to 11 and that means lots of legitimate comments are getting caught. I have been working my way through the backlog, and...
Google Analytics Goes Real Time
Those of you who use Google’s excellent free site analytics tool (aka Dashboard) will be thrilled to learn that the analytical software tool you us to analyzing past performance is now going to be real time: The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change....
Counterparties
Kudos to Felix and Ryan — the Counterparties site looks great. I don’t know if the world needs another MSM curator — they are competing with NYT’s Dealbook, FT’s Alphaville, and WSJ’s MarketBeat — but it looks like a legitimate competitor in the space. >
Blog Traffic Goes (Short Term) Bullish in August
I am not particularly bullish these days — 50/50 stocks versus cash/bonds — and while we certainly could see a bounce up towards the 1250 level on the SPX, I am not sanguine about the next 2Qs of market performance. That said, the chart below may be a very short term, bullish indicator. As we...
Things Apple is Worth More Than
My new favorite Tumbler blog is the hilarious Things Apple is Worth More Than ! ~~~ Apple’s Market Cap is Now $340 Billion. What’s Littler? Total Corporate Income Tax for 2011 Via @TheArmoTrader: Corporations will pay a total of $247.2 billion in state, local and federal income tax this year. 19th Aug 2011 American Obesity...
Sourcing & Attribution & Credit
John Gruber has a terrific post on Attribution and Credit hat really struck a chord. Go give it a read, and meet me back here in 5 minutes. ~~~ Way back in the bad ole early days of blogging, I used to find my stuff, my market/economic related blog posts “used” in the financial press...
2011 Big Picture Investor Conference
Back in June 2009, we held a Big Picture Conference (Recap here). The response to the last conference was terrific; We are thinking about doing another one in September of this year (2011). This is always a bit of a project: The conference rooms cost money, as does flying people in and hosting them. I...
2011 Big Picture Investor Conference
Back in June 2009, we held a Big Picture Conference (Recap here). The response to the last conference was terrific; We are thinking about doing another one in September of this year (2011). This is always a bit of a project: The conference rooms cost money, as does flying people in and hosting them. I...
Orange County Realtors vs IrvineHousingBlog.com
This is quite fascinating: The Orange County Association of Realtors has filed a grievance against an Irvine real estate broker who writes a blog that takes critical looks at the housing crash, homebuyers and real estate agents. Larry Roberts, who writes the IrvineHousingBlog.com, freely admits going “over the top” in his posts, which are particularly...
Orange County Realtors vs IrvineHousingBlog.com
This is quite fascinating: The Orange County Association of Realtors has filed a grievance against an Irvine real estate broker who writes a blog that takes critical looks at the housing crash, homebuyers and real estate agents. Larry Roberts, who writes the IrvineHousingBlog.com, freely admits going “over the top” in his posts, which are particularly...
Writing, and the Editing Process
One of the more interesting things about the writing is that it can be a solo exercise as well as a collaborative process. As a solo exercise, this can veer into self indulgence — it involves allowing the mind to wander where it will, fleshing out an idea, having some fun with it — and...
America’s Hottest Economist
There is a gushing article in BusinessWeek on Tyler Cowen, America’s Hottest Economist. It is interesting in a wonky kinda way. Way back in 2008, I had a problem with one of Cowen’s NYT articles Tyler Cowen: “Predatory Borrowing The Bigger Problem”. I thought that he was ignoring the role the Fed and lenders played...
