First off – My all carb all the time Toronto diet is a HUGE success. I have gained 10 pounds in 21 days – WITHOUT McDonalds! I feel like crap and my joints hurt. My hair (except that in my ear and nose) seems to be falling out faster. Cool. Three more weeks and I will look like Chartreuse’s other brother (I met his real brother and he is much cooler than me).
The tech nerds and venture dudes (and dudettes) get it. Conversation is cool, even if it is with other nerds. Conversation has led to a cool Web2.0 site like TechMeme . I have talked to Gabe and he says that we are not linking enough to get this for OUR community of bloggers.
Financial bloggers are out in good numbers, but WE are not linking enough and using all the COOL WIDGETS that the nerds are giving us and the Venture dudes are funding. Touring as many financial blogs as I can, I am happily surprised by the wicked talent.
Sadly, we share one thing in common with our tech nerd blogger brethren – sophomorix, assanine, anonymous comments. Sadly, the mean comments that I notice while touring financial blogs will likely stay, but – and this is a big but (not BUTT :) like mine right now), this is what makes markets!
I have added my two new favorite tools to my right sidebar for you all to see and hopefully test out on your sites – coComment and MyBlogLog . My forward thinking friend TraderMike has done the same.
Trust me – these are cool, useful widgets and will make our financial blogging community a better place to learn the markets and make money!
Hi Howard,
I’m a coComment co-founder, and wanted to thank you for giving us a try. I’m actually a pretty long time reader of your blog, and I’m really pumped you like what you see with coComment. I’ve always felt it had significant potential for the financial blogging community – hopefully you’ll help prove me right! Just in case you’re not aware, we rolled out a new version of the service 24 hours ago, with a lot of great new features – including the ability to start comments and conversation around sites that don’t have comment functionality built in. As you said above – conversation is cool – the wider it spreads, the better for all of us. Look forward to getting your feedback as you start to use the service!
I changed my mind. You are off the site.
just kidding :)
Thanks for stopping by even if you are lying about being a reader.
I hope to get up to speed on working with the tool this weekend
Howard – I’d never lie to you. Seriously… I’m into markets and started reading you when you were still on the blogger platform, as I saw you were a fan of Bill Cara (like me), and you were into the web 2.0 stuff too. Similar interests, interesting insights (most of the time ;-), blah, blah… Your blogroll helped me populate my bloglines feeds! (thanks for that by the way). So this is a cool coincidence – really!
Anyway, keep up the great work on the blog, and please give us some serious feedback on the service!
of course and bill and jeff matthews were my inspirations to start writing
All the cool guys hang here!
now that you are here finally, maybe they will come back :)
I heard a rumor that Motorola was buying out Arris has anyone else heard this ?
Any truth to the rumor,motorola is talking with arris to buy them out,Seems logical’