Pushing the stock conversation…BUT we go to 11!

Posted by Howard
on October 16th, 2006

One of my goals out of Wallstrip is to create a deeper conversation, a better MEME for stock bloggers, market investors and enthusiasts.

The tech nerds have MEME’s, and the stock guys don’t. The left coasters don’t think a StockMeme can be done. They have history on their side. Talk about a lame self-fulfilling prophecy. In the meantime, great tech conversations are happening and we’ve got ZILCH.

Yahoo could give a f#@ck about bloggers. They did cut a deal with Seeking Alpha that creates a giant info depot for information and filings and conference calls that uses the aggregation to sell ads for page views. Smart, but very Web 1.0. Google Finance is doing a much better job, but there is no conversation – just posts and data.

Alan Warms of BuzzTracker wants to change all that. His BuzzTracker for any subject is cool. It is addictive for deep subject hounds and bloggers like me. He is working on a white label for us and it will track the stories on the web related to our company of the day. An early version is already up on the site. If you have a post – Good or Bad – related to the show and or stock – THESE SERVICES WILL START FINDING YOU.

John and his partners at Instant Information are doing some great things as well and are creating an information widget for Wallstrip. Roger Ehrenberg of Monitor 110 and a blogger at Information Arbitrage, has his own set of designs on deep data – for institutional investors. Roger has also been a great supporter of Wallstrip and is even a contributor. Today he wrote a great post for us on Apple.

The technology is here for stocks – NOW.

What we need to start doing as stock bloggers is LINK BETTER. It is not enough to blogroll your favorites. To take the stock conversation deeper, we should be linking to each other more. TraderMike does it well. The Kirk Report is doing some great linking. I really like reading Bill Cara and he is a friend of mine and of Wallstrip, but I wish he would join the linking world already – not just the occassional blogger recognition. I think his writing is great and helpful, but you need to link out to get the readership bigger and get the linkage in return. If you have great things to say and you are spending the time writing, why not expand your audience?

I am likely looking at this in too simple a form, but hear me out. Take today’s Wallstrip show. We appreciate the links, but if you are a stock blogger, don’t just link to he show. SHARE YOUR OPINION AND ANALYSIS ON THE STOCK. Sites like Buzztracker, Instant Information and Monitor 110 have been built to not only collect the data and make hedge funds money, but help you (as a blogger) build an audience and help everybody get a conversation going.

Lets start doing stock conversation better. The opinions are great, but a protocal has to be followed at least to get started.

It could be great.

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