Why the 3 Midas Oracle blogs, the InTrade-TradeSports blog, the BetFair-TradeFair blog, the Betdaq blog, the Iowa Electronic Markets blog, the Hollywood Stock Exchange blog, the NewsFutures blog, the Freakonomics blog, the Odd Head blog, the Alpha Thesis blog, the Caveat Bettor blog, etc., should all be part of a giant, inter-linked, meta conversation about prediction markets.
Chris F. Masse March 11th, 2008
[I]n the blogosphere, [] competition is a good thing, not a bad thing. I want other finance blogs to launch, the more the better. And I want them to be written by keener minds than mine. The more that happens, the more traffic I’ll get - that’s the way the conversation works. Other media don’t work like that: if I’m watching ABC, I’m not watching NBC. But blogs are different, and don’t operate according to that kind of zero-sum mathematics. [...]
Felix Salmon got it —once again.
David Perry, my good Lord, please take notes.









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