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Weekend Blog Watch

James Altucher

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs. To access some of these stories, registration or a subscription may be required. Please check the individual links for the site's policy.

The year is over, and it's time now to take a look at the Dogs of the Dow for 2007. The Dogs of the Dow are components of the index that historically have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average by about 2% per year, if you rebalance on the first day of each year, which in this case going forward will be Wednesday.

Donaldson Investing's Greg Donaldson updates his view on what "micro-cap" stock Berkshire Hathaway(BRKA Quote) is really worth.

Investor's Business Daily's top 10 medical stocks are ranked according to earnings per share, relative strength and using the CANSLIM methodology.

Analyst extraordinaire Hilary Kramer wants us to take a drive in Honda Motor(HMC Quote).

The Buyback Letter, which monitors insider buying, is interested in Big Lots(BIG Quote)

Who's the winner? The Playboy 2006 stockpicking contest is over. A 44% return over the past year is pretty good.

Clean AM Ideas likes fashion retailer spinoff New York & Company(NWY Quote).

Why does super investor Seth Klarman like blank-check companies so much? Let's stop the hate on blank-check companies.

Compete shares the stats on all the online dating sites and Yahoo! Personals is the winner. And Hitwise tells us that Yahoo! Answers has 96% market share in that space as well. Go Yahoo!(YHOO Quote)!

JoeCit takes a look at deep-value play Concord Camera(LENS Quote).

Crossing Wall Street notes that Dow 12,500 is about 2,000 points lower than where we would be if the Dow kept pace with the Wilshire 5000. Go Dow!

Paul Kedrosky looks at the top 10 stories for television, music, news and more for 2006.

Stockerblog finds a "stock" that was up 225% Thursday and also hit $200,000 per share.

13D Tracker covers Chapman Capital's aggressive activist stance on Cypress Semiconductor(CY Quote). By the way, Bob Chapman has made an incredible comeback year this year after breaking his back several years ago in a surfing accident, quitting the hedge fund business, traveling the world 10 times over, restarting his fund this year and causing pure agony for CEOs everywhere ever since. Go Bob!

I like the view that TheFlyOnTheWall.com has on our trade deficit. Down with the haters!

Check out the Freakonomics blog on the importance of washing your hands. Basically, if you don't wash your hands, you could kill someone.

Revisit my all-time favorite YouTube video. This guy has been viewed 12 million times, and he's incredible.

If you have any blogs you think I should be looking at for 2007 please drop me a line -- and have a happy new year.

Please note that due to factors including low market capitalization and/or insufficient public float, we consider Concord Camera to be a small-cap stock. You should be aware that such stocks are subject to more risk than stocks of larger companies, including greater volatility, lower liquidity and less publicly available information, and that postings such as this one can have an effect on their stock prices.