Wednesday's Blog Watch

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

The Daytona 500 is the fourth-biggest brand in sports. Here's how you can trade the Daytona 500 index.

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The great battle of the 21st century begins: Google (GOOG Quote) vs. Baidu (BIDU Quote).

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day is triggering several trades this morning, including buys for Amgen (AMGN Quote), Check Point (CHKP Quote) and others.

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Venture capitalist and parent extraordinaire Michael Eisenberg notes that ESPN actually gets it when it comes to Web 2.0.

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Dash of Insight, as usual, has a great post summarizing economics of the past 100 years, and it's well worth the read.

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The New York Times notes what we've known all along: Piggybacking the activist hedge funds is a successful strategy.

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Uber-analyst Hilary Kramer likes American Commercial Lines (ACLI Quote).

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Notable Calls provides some more color on the proposed merger between satellite-radio providers Sirius (SIRI Quote) and XM (XMSR Quote).

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The Microcap Speculator lays out the case of why "special purpose acquisition companies" are often great investments.

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Invest the Middle Way provides an update on free trade broker Zecco.

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Ticker Sense compares U.S. returns with those of every other country out there and wonders why the U.S. can't get any love.

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The top 25 stocks since the 2002 bull market began.

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Read/Write Web offers up the online video index.

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Seeking Alpha believes we should satisfy our cravings with Yum! Brands (YUM Quote).

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Stockerblog finds four ways to invest in Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA Quote).

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The Canned Meat (spam) portfolio is starting to get ugly.