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Re: Giveaway: Free Sumo Lounge Omni Chair

George — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:10:58 -0000

I've been in my house for almost six years now, and I still haven't gotten around to properly furnishing my family room in the basement. We use to have a bean bag chair, but my son took a bit out of it and all the stuff started falling out. One of those Sumo Lounge Omni Chairs would make a great addition/replacement chair for my basement.

Re: Would You Buy Into Facebook’s IPO?

George — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:21:11 -0000

Facebook stock would be what I call a glamour stock. It will likely be way overvalued and insiders will sell their shares as soon as the lockup period ends. In addition, I really do not think Facebook has a sustainable competitive advantage. There will likely be a newer and cooler social networking site within a short period of time. Does anyone rememeber MySpace?

Re: Quicken: Schedule This Payment?

George — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:23:04 -0000

I once entered snorkeling gear rental as a work related expense. I was down in Key Largo and I needed to see a coral reef restoration project for my job. I never thought I'd have snorkeling gear as a work related expense. My office's accounting department even questioned the expense. The guy in accounting never really did believe me, lol.

Re: Carnival of Investing #25

George — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:32:56 -0000

I think you might have missed the link to my article in your paragraph above that starts with, "If they mated." The link is http://www.fatpitchfinancials.com/311/mfi-rule-...

Re: Be A Financial Advisor

George — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:29:49 -0000

I've also been interested in going into financial advising/planning. The one worry I've had about going into the field of financial advising is all the conflict of interest problems in that industry. I think if I ever do decide to go into financial planning, I'll have to do it under my own terms by starting my own business. Maybe it will be my second career.

Re: Carnival of Personal Finance Needs Future Hosts

George — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:32:41 -0000

I'm up for hosting another Carnival of Personal Finance. I think I have just about recovered from the last one I hosted.

Re: Stupid Investment of the Week: Teach Me To Trade

George — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:26:30 -0000

The only way to REALLY learn how to invest is to study the long term masters of investing. I've picked Warren Buffett to learn from because he has had amazing returns and has shared much of his knowledge through his letters to his shareholders over the years.

The group think of seminars might make you feel good and confident, but it is not likely to teach you the most important aspect of investing, which is to learn to think for yourself.

Re: Festival of Stocks #39

George — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:02:43 -0000

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

Re: Festival of Stocks - November 12, 2007

George — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:26:36 -0000

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

Re: April 28, 2008 Edition of the Festival of Stocks

George — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:33:53 -0000

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

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Re: Welcome To Festival of Stocks #77, aka The Jungle!

George — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:54:29 -0000

Who are you calling a sissy value investor? Careful Timothy or I'll sick my value investor posse on you.

Regardless, thanks for hosting this week's Festival of Stocks.

Re: The New York Times: Not Worth It

George — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:00:56 -0000

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.

Re: Evernote - A tool for investors

George — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:51:18 -0000

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?

Re: The Future of Abnormal Returns?

George — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:46:40 -0000

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?

Re: The Future of Abnormal Returns?

George — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:54:53 -0000

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?

Re: Fannie, Freddie, and Preparing for Black Swans

George — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:08:27 -0000

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?

Re: Beware of IR Vendors Trading on Your Good Name

George — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:00:37 -0000

Nice follow up on Davis Freeberg story. As an investor, I think I will also check into using NIRI to determine the credibility of the investor relations information that I read. Is there a specific link to the NIRI member's list? I didn't spot it on their site.

By the way, I also found your comment on anonymous bloggers credibility of interest since I am one. I stay anonymous primarily to protect my family from corporate legal department attacks and to keep my professional life in a non financial career separate from my interest in investing. I don't think my boss would want customers asking me about my blog. Any suggestions on helping an anonymous blogger like myself gain credibility?

Re: SEC adds free news feeds to EDGAR

George — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:06:05 -0000

I figured I wasn't the first to spot this new EDGAR feature, but I couldn't find any articles about it on Sunday, March 30th. I played around with the feed options a bit and then decided it would be a good idea to post an article on the XML feeds. I held off on publishing it until very early Moday morning so it would be at the top of my subscribers' feed readers. Apparently, you were up even before me. Next time I'll have to post on Sunday night, lol. Thanks for linking to my post at Fat Pitch Financials.

Re: E-Proxy Part 37: Try this for fun

George — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:42:46 -0000

Yikes, that is one ugly looking URL for Urban Outfitters. You would think a brand conscious retailer we know better than not at least include their name in the URL. Also, that comma at the end of the URL will trip up half the boomers that try to use it.