Weekend Blog Watch

10/21/06 - 10:01 AM EDT

James Altucher

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

Purely as a result of a vanity search, I stumbled across a blog post that mentions a great list of demographically motivated stocks in the death industry.


Stockpickr has a list of Nanotech Spectacular Stocks: Class of 2006.


Will News Corp.'s (NWS Quote) MySpace bury all of the other dating sites?


Ticker Sense has a great post on stocks that are worth looking at due to insider buying.


SeekingAlpha plucks out the most important quote in Google's (GOOG Quote) conference call.


Does Time Warner (TWX Quote) want to buy Cablevision?


I admire RealMoney contributor Paul Kedrosky for always homing in on the best online statistics. In this case, he's found interesting numbers on online video usage.


With sometimes obtuse language, CXO Advisory looks at the research on fading gaps.


This seems disgusting, but I sort of want some. Interesting how bloggingstocks somehow relates it to the stock market.


The purge begins: YouTube deletes 29,549 Japanese videos.


Stockmasters is exuberant about growth stock ViroPharma (VPHM Quote).


Buyout king Ron Perelman just scored big on SIGA (SIGA Quote). It's interesting to see his other top holdings.


In case you need suggestions, here are 50 fun things to do with your iPod.


Well, it doesn't get cuter than this.

At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund held none of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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