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Felix Salmon:

And while Barry might not like the overall quality of the writers at Seeking Alpha, the quality of the readers (as opposed to the commenters, who are an unrepresentative sample) is pretty high, for one big reason: Seeking Alpha&#8217-s email alerts. Most executives simply have no time to surf the web for content, which is one reason why it took a long time for econoblogs to take off. But a lot of them have signed up for SA&#8217-s email service, which sends them a bunch of posts on their particular company or industry on a regular basis. And I&#8217-m often very surprised at the number of times that high-powered people get in touch with me after I end up in one of those emails.

Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• 50% of our prediction market luminaries have a MacBook.
• STRAIGHT FROM OUR TRUISM DEPARTMENT: Money buys happiness.
• Ron Paul (R) and Barney Frank (D) ally together to attack “the practical hurdles of the federal law, known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, rather than its legitimacy”.
• Clicking on the “SPHERE: RELATED CONTENT” button, at the bottom of each Midas Oracle post, will bring you a list of external webspots.
• FRIGHTENING: Jed Christiansen’s prediction market blog was briefly overtaken by web spammers, who inserted invisible links to their commercial sites so as to game the Google PageRank system.
• InTrade ditch market-leader Bloomberg for low-cost, second-tier data provider eSignal.
• Drawing a parallel between our reluctance to seek advice and the experts’ reluctance to take the market-generated probabilistic predictions in an un-discriminating, un-critical fashion