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Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...

Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...

Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.

This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:

And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:

I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.

Kirk just published a letter to readers that is well worth reading. It covers some topics that I've been thinking about a lot lately, like improving my returns and how to best balance the time & effort I spend on my site vs. trading and other things I want/need to get done.

He also reveals some insights gained from his member survey, which should provide valuable information to anybody who runs a blog. The key takeaway for me -- this jibes with what I've learned from my own experience & surveys -- is to keep things concise and relevant to the site's main topic. After seeing the results of the first survey I did I was surprised at the popularity of my links section. That survey made it clear that people were using me as a means to help them manage the tons of stock market info being published on a daily basis. So if my role is to help people maximize their time then I certainly don't want to create even more information overload. In fact, I've been drastically cutting back on my own information intake which is why the number of links I post each day is way down from a year ago. I hope to keep it around this level and maybe even a little less as I continue to weed out the news feeds I track.

Another interesting thing from Kirk's survey is that book reviews are one of his readers' least favorite things. I've been struggling with reviews for at least the last year. I have a stack of 6 unread books that were sent to me to review. Two of which I tried my best not to accept because I knew it would be a while before I got a chance to read them, much less review them. (There are two others that I read long ago, liked very much, and still need to write reviews on -- Enhancing Trader Performance and Financial Armageddon) After reading Kirk's survey results I'm feeling better about my new stance of being extremely selective on books. And maybe I'll even get those two reviews done before 2009. :-)

Kirk also wrote that "Trading and investing in a fishbowl where others can review, constantly question, and critique every move I make has proven not helpful." That's not at all surprising to me and it's part of why I try not to talk about my positions too much. Kirk mentions some of the other reasons as well -- like the appearance of (or being accused of) manipulation, etc. This is stuff to seriously consider if you're running a blog.

Like Kirk, I'm going to be making some changes to the site as well as the site's content. You'll start to see the changes in the next few days and hopefully they'll be better for all involved.

• Local Events
• Blog Posts
• Books (New Releases)
• DVDs (New Releases)
• MP3s / CDs (New Releases)
• News Articles
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Online Videos

FaveBot can track those things for whatever topics you specify. So you could track your favorite sports teams, actors, musicians, hobbies, etc. But I wanted to show how you can use FaveBot to track stock market / finance related content. The advantage FaveBot has over, say, Yahoo Finance, is that it searches so many different media types. For example, there's a lot of good financial content 'buired' in audio and video files that's not picked up by Yahoo Finance. FaveBot will find that content for you if you choose to track podcasts and/or videos. Ditto for blogs.

To demonstrate FaveBot I set up a user, TraderMike, who's based in New York. (the location is important for event tracking) There are two main areas of FaveBot. First is the user's tracking list. That's the list of topics (keywords) that the user has entered. Second is the "discoveries" list. That is the list of what FaveBot has found to match the user's tracking list. You can choose to view all discoveries together or just the discoveries for one topic at a time.

Here's a portion of the tracking list:

The tracking list is basically a control panel. Use the 'New Tracking' link to add a topic to be tracked. When you're logged in you'll see checkboxes next to each of your topics. You can turn those on & off from this page as well. You'll also notice that there are numbers in parenthesis after each topic's name. Clicking that number will take you to the discoveries for that topic. Likewise, clicking the Orange RSS button will give you the RSS feed for that topic.

Feel free to click over to FaveBot and see what it's discovered for the 20 topics TraderMike is tracking. Here is TraderMike's tracking list and here's where you can see all of TraderMike's discoveries across all his topics (equivalent to clicking the 'discoveries' tab when you're logged in).

If you'd like to set up your own list, just go to the sign up page. Once you've got your list set you can have your discoveries sent to you via RSS (e.g. add them to your My Yahoo page) or via email. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or feedback.

I just came into my office to do today's recap post and noticed my desktop PC was turned off. That wasn't a good sign because it was on when I left it a few hours earlier. It now refuses to boot into Windoze -- even in safe mode. I think it may have been zapped during a thunderstorm that rolled through earlier this afternoon. Or maybe it's a virus. Whatever the cause, it's preventing me from doing the post since all my charting & image tools are on that machine. Hopefully I can get it fixed by tomorrow...

On the bright side, perhaps this will motivate me to finally load all my stock tools on my notebook as well so I can post from anywhere.

While reading my stack of magazines on the plane I found this nice write-up on Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip.

I'm finally back from my travels but I'm still not back to 100% with trading & blogging. I plan to get back into the full swing of things after next week's Fed decision. There won't be any morning watchlists until then but I'll be doing nightly chart reviews and updating the links section starting today.

The bulk of my time between now & the Fed meeting will be spent working on the website/service I've been building. I've been making good progress and hope to get that launched in the next several days. Hopefully some of you will help me beta test it.

(Note: I'm still on semi-vacation. Posting will resume its normal pace in September.)

I'm passing along an email I got from Jeff, one of WallStrip's producers. If you know somebody who fits the bill please pass the info along to them...

I'm taking a little summer vacation so posting will be light over the next month & a half or so. I'll be doing a little traveling during that time as well as focusing on a project I'd like to get off the ground soon. And frankly, I just need a break from the daily blog posting. There will be some new posts from time to time but it'll probably be something like twice a week. I will try to keep the links section up to date though. Later...

Whew, I can finally stop saying "no comment" to the rumors. CBS did indeed acquire WallStrip. Congrats to the entire team, especially Howard (you da man!). He has a post which covers how all of this went down, from idea to acquisition. It's appropriately entitled "You Can Make Money From Blogging". I think Howard pulled off a pretty amazing feat -- cobbling together a group of people who he'd initially only met virtually and actually making the project successful.

The rumors going around for the last week or so have put a LOT of emphasis on the hostess, (with the most-ess) Lindsay Campbell. Obviously Lindsay does a great job and I think she was a perfect choice for the host position. But people really need to recognize the talent and hard work of Adam Eland, Jeff Marks (BrightRed Pictures) and Jon and Roman from Fresh Bread Network. These guys really know their stuff and have been working their a$$es off to get these shows out every day. I've seen the shooting and editing process and was shocked at how much work it takes to produce 2 to 3 minutes of video. It's truly been a team effort and CBS is acquiring a team that knows a lot about producing and distributing web video and is damn good it.

Speaking of video, here's today's WallStrip which covers the CBS deal. Enjoy:

P.S. NewTeeVee has a bit more on the deal with CBS.

P.P.S. Fred "Rolodex" Wilson (aka Super VC) has a great post about this WallStrip deal. He gets to the heart of why CBS wanted to bring the team in-house.

P.P.P.S. TechCrunch has a follow-up to their original rumor post. They still don't seem to get it. Perhaps Duncan needs to read Fred's post.

P.P.P.P.S Be sure to read the comments by Jeff and Adam on that TechCrunch post for the real deal.

And finally, here's the official press release from CBS:

Thanks to a comment from 'One Way Stox' on the Rev Shark WallStrip interview we've decided to ask people who they'd like to see interviewed on one of the WallStrip Friday Chats. Let us know via a comment below or an email to me or an email to WallStrip. Anybody is fair game, TV personalities, politicians, CEOs, bloggers, etc...