Wednesday's Daily Blog Watch

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

Which auto stocks are speeding ahead, and which are off the road? Hint: Toyota (TM) is on the road.

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This is very telling. Hot or Not was one of the most amazing viral and profitable sites out there. Now it has abandoned its model and switched from subscription to free.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day include new trades on Mamma.com (MAMA) and Parametric Technology (PMTC).

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Economics post of the day: The U.S. did not fuel its growth through debt. Go get 'em, Dash!

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Check out Stockpickr's Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume, including a continued breakout on Jones Soda (JSDA).

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I've always liked small-cap defense company Allied Defense Group (ADG). Now Stock Market Beat gives the full lowdown on the company.

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Here's how every country in the world has done during the somewhat volatile first quarter.

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Ticker Sense looks at how Goldman Sachs (GS) has historically done whenever it has recommended Google (GOOG).

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Wow, I bet this presidential primary on News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace will be interesting.

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Bob Chapman, hedge fund activist and partially insane, is my hero. He does it again with his 13D letter on FSI International (FSII).

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Paul Kedrosky looks at the Mercer list of the world's top 10 cities to live in ranked by quality of life. To be honest, I don't trust any list that doesn't have NYC as No. 1.

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Tommy Weisel, bank extraordinaire, talks to 10,000 sales outlets and breaks it down on how Apple (AAPL) is doing.

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I've collected comics since I was a kid. But my problem is: I like to read them, which immediately causes them to go down in value to about zero (somehow, I destroy everything I read). American.com takes a look at what the average annual returns of comics books have been, and what I might have made if I taken good care of them.

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