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Great post! I especially liked the Warren Buffett quote at the end about waiting for fat pitch.

Now my question is, does the melt down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac potentially create a fat pitch elsewhere in the market? Is there an opportunity associated with this disaster?

Tariq, thanks for the great suggestion to add a rising stories page. I just created the Rising Stories at Value Investing News page. Is this what you had in mind?

Nice post! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the state of the investment blogosphere. Since I run an investment blog and a "gatekeeper" site, Value Investing News, I too think about the future of the investment blogosphere. My take on it is that in the future we will see a move in growth from news reporting sites (newspaper style sites), to conversational sites (blogs, forums, etc.) to application oriented sites (social media, information filtering, analysis applications). I think right now growth in online investment sites is fastest in the conversational sites, but is moving rapidly into the application oriented sites as online readers become more sophisticated. We are facing information overload every day and the desire is find ways to manage that information and focus on the most important items. It started with RSS feeds, feed readers, bookmarking sites, and is now moving to rating sites, online software (ie Google docs), APIs, social networks and beyond.

You wrote, "Some sites are trying to become the Digg for financial news, but the problem with this model is that it thrives on mob mentality." That too has been a concern of mine. The majority (i.e. herd) can drown out the informed minority. I think the way to overcome this shortcoming is to create communities of like minded individuals, like value investors. I hope I'm successful at avoiding the mob mentality at Value Investing News and can harness the positive network effects of the "collective intelligence." What are your impressions on how Value Investing News is progressing?

I haven't heard of Evernote before. It seems rather similar to the increasingly popular Diigo or even the older Furl bookmarking site. I've used Furl for quite some time and was considering trying out Diigo. What did you like about Evernote that makes it stand out?

Thanks for hosting this week's Festival of Stocks. I'm just starting to read through it now.

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I just have a small correction. Alexa statistics cannot be used to rank subdomains such as news.google.com and news.yahoo.com. Alexa ranks the entire property associated with the domain in their rankings. Therefore, what you are seeing is that yahoo.com ranks number 1 currently in the number of worldwide visitors.

Thanks for hosting this week's Festival of Stocks. Nice work!

Great job putting this week's Festival of Stocks together. Thank you for hosting.