Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Reviewing Zero Hedge! Version 1

One of my readers yesterday tossed a grenade into the tranquil waters of my (virtual) swimming pool by suggesting I review Zero Hedge!

I have reflected a bit on this, and to review ALL of ZH would be too big a job and would not be current (one of ZH's MANY great things is that they break news very fast).

The below is a possible way to summarize ZH.  This is just categorizing and tabulating ZH articles.  I will try to do this each day for a few days at 2:00 PM (convenient for me to be at the computer) for a fixed time (even if arbitrary).  OBVIOUSLY this is not statistically valid for squat!


ZH Current Meme Index, v. 1
13-Sep-11
No. of Articles
Zero Hedge 2:00 PM Stories
(13 Sept 2011)
Gold and PMs
0
Europe, Greece, Default
3
Contributors:
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** Bruce Krasting
1
** Cognitive Dissonance
0
** Phoenix Capital
2
US Treasuries
1
Broken Markets, HFT, stocks
1
Economic Indicators
2
FX, Derivatives, other
3

Well that's not pretty, so here's a link for a cleaner look:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhnHmH-02CQIdEJ0Y1hlcTlZTEl1Vm16Y3BUdkwwWWc&hl=en_US#gid=0

Please (someone) click the above link and let me know if it works OK for you!

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I will review some articles as well as tabulate the above, at least for the next few days or so.

I will NOT review articles for which I know very little (trading, FX, derivatives, etc.).

Your reviews of this idea would be of great value to me!  Thanks in advance!

5 comments:

  1. I'm amazed at the number of comments at Turd Ferguson's new site. This could be a trend, use ZH to establish a brand and then launch to a more focused site.

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  2. That is kind of what I have done JT! Although I am at this for other reasons than TF. I do not want to work too hard... TF has a great site, and I congratulate him. I'll have to sign up!

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  3. Your link worked just fine. I'll stay tuned for your tweaking of the ZH review. I can hardly keep up with the articles, let alone comment as I'd like to. Avoiding the trollish and fanatical comments is getting more and more difficult!

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  4. it is a pleasure to read about you people having the same attitude on ZH-commenters...a sad thing when I imagine they annoyed so many other, much more intelligent commenters.
    And this includes Mr Racoon of course, which I am really delighted to see here!

    greetings from an old ZH-lurker! I learned so much from all ya since mid 2009 - its like I cant stop saying thank you! :)

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