Barron's Online Now Carrying Seeking Alpha Headlines

Roger Nusbaum submits: Barron's Online is now offering content from Seeking Alpha's ETF page. This can be found at the Barron's site (paid sub. req.) on the 'Funds' page in the lower left entitled 'Latest Blog Coverage Of ETFs'.

This is a big deal for a couple of reasons. This is a validation of the content that is out there in the blogosphere and the way it is helping do-it-yourself investors learn to be better money managers.

I think the big difference between the blogosphere and some of the monthly magazines is that where the monthlies provide a journalist's eye view of things like ETFs and other aspects of investing, the blogosphere provides access to people who actually manage money, have managed money in the past or have otherwise had genuine success with investing.

To me, that difference is huge. Click to view larger version of the page:

Barron's has been in touch with this for a long time. It started featuring blogs in the Electronic Trader Column in the fall of 2004. Their realization that the blogosphere offers some great content continues with the news about Seeking Alpha.

If you have been reading blog content for any length of time, you know that Seeking Alpha has been an important hub for information about many slices of the market. Hopefully SA's role in helping investors will only grow in the future.

Barron's is also carrying headlines from SA's Internet sector on its Technology page.

Congrats to the entire SA crew for this.

Comments

[Geoff Consi...:]

That is very nice information to have--thanks for posting that Roger.

2006 Aug 16 12:56 PM

[Asif Suria:]

To add to this, Google Finance is now displaying SeekingAlpha posts under the "news" section. I am not sure how long this has been happening but I just noticed it today when I saw one of my posts up there.

finance.google.com/fin...

2006 Aug 16 02:28 PM

[Yaser Anwar:]

WSJ's Market Beat often selects SA content too. This is a great achievement for everyone in the SA team, as well as every single contributor, kudos to everyone.

2006 Aug 16 03:47 PM