Weekend Blog Watch

Stock quotes in this article: LVLT , MFE , GOOG , MVSN , MS , CVS , CMCSK  

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

It's time to check in on the top Nasdaq stocks with short interest. Get ready for the squeezes on Level 3 (LVLT Quote) and Comcast (CMCSK Quote).


Big Ben consistently does the blogs I wish I had written: Here are all the specialty metal stocks that he believes are cheap.


I've used McAfee (MFE Quote) security software forever. So why not check out the house that John McAfee now owns from the payments I've been sending him?


This is a great portfolio: What stocks should you buy for your kids? They'll go up and they're kid-friendly.


Alarm Clock profiles the $100 million domain-name mogul. He owns god.com, satan.com and the entire Internet presence of the country of Cameroon.


GigaOm analyzes why (other than for pure love) Google (GOOG Quote) invested in 23andme.com, the company run by Sergey Brin's wife.


TheFlyOnTheWall checks out Macrovision (MVSN Quote).


Unusual stocks of the day: stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, suggesting a possible breakout, and stocks with unusual option activity, suggesting somebody is breaking the law and knows something you and I don't.


Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man, is sometimes hard to understand, but I'll link to this anyway: Check out Munger's top checklists. What are they checking? I don't know, but it still looks interesting.


StocksandBlogs.com is taking a stand -- here are its top 10 U.S. stocks to buy right now. Nos. 1 and 2 are Morgan Stanley (MS Quote) and CVS Caremark (CVS Quote).


Chris Anderson, author of the excellent book The Long Tail, just announced his next topic, and I think I really like it.


OptionsMonster offers its favorite energy plays.


The art of selling short by superstar short-seller (say that 10 times fast) Jim Chanos.


Israeli stock specialist Israel Newsletter checks out email stock Commtouch (CTCH Quote).


And, if you missed it, here are Cramer's portfolios of the week.


Also, now that Cramer is done with doing the Imus spot on MSNBC for a while, I bet he will be answering more questions in Stockpickr Answers.


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At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and 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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