Tag Archives: bloggers
The people who know the most about finance are the people who work in it.
Which is why pseudonymed finance writers are needed.
Investors care if stock XYZ in their portfolio is going to go up or down. That’s it.
Eddy Elfenbein lectures Felix Salmon:
July 15th, 2009
4:52 am GMT
Felix,
I hate to deluge you with comments today but I really have to take exception to this post.
One of the big problems with the financial blogosphere is that a huge part of the conversation takes place at 40,000 feet. Have you ever talked with an investor as [...]
Cynical bloggers can help your company get its message out.
That’s today’s lesson from TechCrunch and Scobleizer.
So, you should not avoid Midas Oracle.
CrowdCast did not.
The anonymity of “Wiser Than The Crowd” will expire soon.
The sometimes excellent prediction market blogger “Wiser Than The Crowd” says that he will disclose his real name, soon. (An upcoming Slate article will feature him, he says.) That is a great news, as it will bring more credibility to his prediction market journalism, and will allow him to be a full member of the [...]
*Years* later, the BetFair blogs are still *not* taking off.
- Google PageRank of Betting @ BetFair: 5 / 10.
- Google PageRank of BetFair Predicts: 4 / 10.
- Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader for Betting @ BetFair: 29.
- Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader for BetFair Predicts: 17.
All this in spite of the 45 part-time writers and the SEO experts (or so [...]
A new glimpse into the revamped Overcoming Bias
Robin Hanson:
Chris, Eliezer was not “purged.” He requested to have his old posts moved to Less Wrong. No one else has made any similar request.
Eliezer was not “expelled”; he choose to move in order to build a community at Less Wrong using fancy comment karma software. The folks who wrote software for his new site [...]
What makes a good blog, and how much can you value a popular blog?
So, how does our Master Of All Universes justify his expelling of his co-bloggers?
Overcoming Bias began in November ‘06 as a group blog on the general theme of how to move our beliefs closer to reality, in the face of our natural biases such as overconfidence and wishful thinking, and our bias to believe we [...]
Robin Hanson has overhauled his (ex-group) blog.
- Overcoming Bias is now a solo blog. (His conspirators are now grouped at Less Wrong.)
- His blog is on with a new webhost, and is probably not powered by TypePad anymore —I highly suspect WordPress. – (He should have chosen WordPress from day one, instead of listening sheepishly to his GMU acolyte. [...]
Why BetFair and InTrade as media can’t be trusted
TechCrunch:
As a consumer, when’s the last time you read an advertorial and walked away inspired or informed?
Never.
And this is my version of the question:
As a consumer, when’s the last time you read a post by BetFair Predicts and walked away inspired or informed?
Never, as for moi. Do give your answer in the comments. Commercial companies [...]
Robin Hanson is a web community super star.
Andrew Gelman:
I’ll write something fuller on my own blog, but I have to admit I envy Robin the lively and thoughtful participation he gets here. Robin is certainly doing something right to be generating this sort of discussion every day.
Robin Hanson managed to “overcome” the timidity of his fanboys.