Monday's Daily Blog Watch

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

The movie business has always been largely recession-proof. Here a list of pure-play movie companies.

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10Q Detective breaks apart the Calpers Focus List, made up of companies that the California Public Employees' Retirement System would like to change things about their companies.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day includes trades triggering today on Maxim Integrated (MXIM Quote) and Conolog (CNLG Quote).

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Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! (YHOO Quote) long before the deal between YouTube and Google (GOOG Quote), notes that online video viewing habits are the same now as they were six years ago.

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Bloggingstocks suggests that Peet's Coffee & Tea (PEET Quote) might be the next Starbucks (SBUX Quote).

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Jim Grant has a yen for the yen.

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Check out the stocks that rose Friday on unusual volume.

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Information Arbitrage gives his lowdown on Blackstone's potential IPO. I will always point out though that similar points were made about Goldman Sachs (GS Quote) going public, and it turned into a great investment.

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I can't believe all the failed fund managers who manage to dust themselves off and raise another $300 million fund. Naked Shorts now tells us about the phoenix-like return of Amaranth.

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Well, if you thought subprime loans were all there was to worry about, it turns out it could be worse than we thought.

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This is a very compelling site. Particularly the 90-year-old bloggers.

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Here's Stockpickr's Barrons Roundup (we turn the various Barrons articles into portfolios), and a new weekly feature on Stockpickr, Cramer's Portfolios of the Week.

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In 1995, I did my first Web site for money. It was a diamond-selling site, perhaps the first one out there. And as eMarketer reminds me, it's a shame I didn't pursue that as a business. Instead, I kept thinking when I built the site, "Who would buy diamonds online?"

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Great post: RealMoney contributor David Merkel gives reasons he is and isn't worried.