While I have babbled on about the Seeking Alpha partnership with Yahoo in mindless fashion, I, along with all the other bloggers have missed the point.
Not the CHAIRMAN. This is the post that matters on the subject ! Well done.
The money has voted on the winner for years – walled gardens are so 1990.
I think the Chairman’s focus on the landlord is appropriate. The ego boost of higher readership is not, to me, a fair trade, considering how many ads each submitted article supports.
http://www.billakanodoodahs.com/?p=20
This morning there are 20 posts at Yahoo from Seeking Alpha. Of those, the vast majority are from their “one page annotated WSJ summary.” Coming in tied at second are summaries of Jim Cramer’s picks and broad market recaps without commentary.
Only THREE posts of the 20 are from actual “bloggers.”
Two of those are from Rob Black, and those are, again, just summaries of market action. Rob does blog, but he’s a 10-year veteran of financial reporting.
The other “blogger” with a post up this morning was Tom Taulli, who’s written six books and often appears on CNBCbubbleheads and Bloomers, and is frequently quoted in the WSJ et al.
Unless something changes, it would be hard for me to see this as a “victory for the blogosphere” – it looks to me like mainstream media.