The Daily Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs. As always, let us know what you think.
by Tim Boyd at Seeking Alpha on why
(GOOG) - Get Free Report
is still his No. 1 Internet stock.
Brett Steenbarger over at TraderFeed discusses
when the
is up on a five-day basis but most of the volume has been in stocks that went down, as has occurred from Tuesday to Tuesday of this week.
So what is all this backdating options stuff all about, anyway? Financial Rounds gives us a
.
You have a Web site or a blog that's generating traffic. The AdSense blog does a
on how to put Google ads on the site to make some money. But then again, Art of Money
the equivalent of swallowing the blue pill in
The Matrix
; i.e., your business is not real.
Trekkies, covet:
Can I have one?
Mining? Mongolia? Stock promotion? UBS saying a speculative buy?
at
Ivanhoe Mining
(IVN)
.
Dealbreaker discusses
Superman's true earnings potential
if he were more of a capitalist.
Crossing Wall Street notes that
the Vatican
made a $12.4 million profit in 2005, despite the $9 million funeral for Pope John Paul II.
A few weeks ago I
wrote about how the media was mostly misinterpreting the so-called negative personal savings rate. John Rutledge is
my white knight.
.
In Thursday's
Daily Blog Watch, I wrote about
News Corp.'s
(NWS) - Get Free Report
MySpace being the #1 trafficked site on the Internet.
Yahoo!
(YHOO)
, and Jeremy Zawodny takes a look at
.
Malcolm Gladwell makes an
about CEO compensation when he discusses what Charlie Wilson of
General Motors
(GM) - Get Free Report
made in 1949.
O'Reilly Radar
reviews
Web-based instant-messaging company Meebo. I'm sort of jealous of the Meebo guys. I'm a big user now of Meebo.com (in place of
Time Warner's
(TWX)
AOL IM software, which seems buggy to me) for my messaging, and it's actually a fairly simple piece of programming. But, hey, they did it, not me.
Check out
by Stokblogs. I covered Pink Sheets'
in a Blog Watch
last month.
Defender
was my game, so I'm not ashamed to admit that
would give me a run for my money.
Hey, if you have feedback on my angle with this Blog Watch or have a resource you think I'd like, please
.
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