Marginal Revolution vs. Freakonomics vs. Overcoming Bias vs. Midas Oracle

Posted on August 5, 2008 by admin

Here are the stats about the feed subscribers to these blogs who use either Google Reader or iGoogle.

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To interpret these data, you should know that:

The web visitors are not counted.
The PC-based feed subscribers are not counted.
The Web-based feed subscribers who use other feed readers than Google are not counted.
In the case of Marginal Revolution, which was one of the defaults proposed by Google Reader until recently, many feed subscribers do not actually read this blog.
A vertical blog like Midas Oracle, which deals only with prediction markets, is necessary far less popular than more horizontal blogs, which can publish about everything (including sex, as it has been the case in the past with those 3 economics blogs).

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Google Web Search shows that I am the only blogger in the world to talk about prediction market journalism.

Posted on August 5, 2008 by admin

Good thing: I&#8217-m a pioneer (following Justin Wolfers&#8217- footsteps).

Bad thing: The whole world does not give the first fig about &#8220-prediction market journalism&#8220-. We will spend much energy introducing them to this new concept.

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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

BetFair angel investor Sean Park says that Jed Christiansen’s anti-sport comment to the CFTC stinks like rotten dead fish under the Egyptian sun.
Did ex-HSX Max Keiser cowardly give up on his prediction market TV journalism project? His website, predictionmarkets.tv, now redirects to a clunky YouTube video webpage.
Big Brother
Enterprise prediction markets in Israel
2 interesting links — Monday Morning Edition
Track Record Collecting vs. Prediction Markets
Why don’t prediction market people submit conference proposals for SXSW 2009?