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Is this a buy or a sell? ReplyThe Ins and Outs of Terror-Free Investing [view article]
Mr. Potato Head,You view is similar to mine as expressed in a follow-up article:
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Richard Shaw
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The Ins and Outs of Terror-Free Investing [view article]
Mr. ShawTerror-free investing as a national policy might or might not work. The unilateral decisions of the US haven't worked out very well e are the best electronics designed and manufactured? Not in our clately, but lets put that aside.
Who decides what is a terror state? Could China be on that list because of its policies in Tibet? What about Russia and the disappearance of its citizens? What about the US in Iraq and Afghanistan; aren't we terrorizing part of their populations? Is the decision made by someone stuck at a desk in the corner who's name and character are unknown? Maybe we could make it with decisions of congress?
If everything goes OK, who moves in when we move out? The French, Russia, China? How about Venezuela? Maybe North Korea?
Wouldn't it be a welcome change to see North Koreans helping out Pakistani Citizens with all their nuclear needs?
The economic and political power of the US is dwindling as other countries of the world move toward the center stage. Where are the fastest grown economies? Which countries are graduating the most engineers, scientists, and business majors? Where are the best and newest examples of architecture? Not in our country.
For terror free investing to work on a global scale would require the combined efforts of several independent nations. The US will need to find a new attitude of pragmatism and co-operation as its influence diminishes over the coming decades.
However, everything else aside, the idea has merit. On an individual basis, or perhaps dedicated "terror free" fund, we could give it a try.
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Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
Re/CC-Wattles sees an opportunity to make some money after he replaces the board with his own people, gets Schoonover out of the executive suite, and makes the chain a RadioShack clone. I don't think he's bullish on the company, just bullish on the upside that will result after he's done chopping heads. ReplyUnder The Radar News - Friday [view article]
"IBM/AMD tie-up "nothing but speculation."&quo...Even IBM couldn't be THAT dumb, to buy AMD.
"Interesting that Walt Mossberg, a huge apple fan, gave it a very mediocre review"
Mossberg's a "lawful neutral" (to use D&D jargon); not a huge Apple fan. The MacBook Air is for road warriors ONLY. I'm not in that group, either.
iPhone shortfall: I think they'll make the 10M by the end of 2008 without breaking a sweat. But, they need to hit additional markets. Note Nokia did well by tapping Asia, EU, and Latin America; the iPhone is still mostly US. Reply
Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
Re. the macbook air:Interesting that Walt Mossberg, a huge apple fan, gave it a very mediocre review:
Apple’s MacBook Air Is Beautiful and Thin, but Omits Features
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Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
The Gordon Brown comment is interesting. Wonder who widely it was reported here, and whether the traders saying the market has bottomed are aware of it. ReplySoon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
Barry, you are completely uninformed. Stupid and completely worthless post. Traffic assignment has been occurring for very legitimate reasons for well over 5 years. Oh and fyi, SCOR's market cap is currently cost to $1B. With predictions like these, I'm glad you're not managing my money! ReplyReuters, NY Times Partner to Produce IHT's Business Section [view article]
This is a real pity, as the Bloomberg coverage in the IHT was really excellent. ReplySoon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
What is his point? would Barry like to be able to retain 100% of the ratings value that is brought to his blog via syndicate so that he could charge higher CPM rates? He-and other creators of content-can decide whether the reveune share agreements offered are good deal for them. As long as the traffic is correctly measured and marketed then the assignment of traffic isn't the scam that is rant claims it is. ReplySoon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
A great response to a horribly written article. I love when hedge fund managers know nothing about an industry, blog about it using a shocking headline to get attention OR to hype a short position gone bad, and then get shot down. LOL! ReplySoon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
A great response to a horribly written article. I love when hedge fund managers know nothing about an industry, blog about it using a shocking headline to get attention OR to hype a short position gone bad, and then get shot down. LOL! ReplySoon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
I had the opportunity to read Mr. Ritholtz’s blog “Soon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix” and I wanted to take the opportunity to set the record straight regarding the practice of traffic assignment in our industry. First, I want to fully disclose that I am a comScore employee serving as Executive Vice President in charge of the Media Metrix business. As Mr. Ritholtz points out in his blog, the use of traffic assignment is a very strong practice within our industry and it is for a very good reason. As the Web has become more fragmented, publishers are constantly challenged to deliver more relevant audiences and value to advertisers and marketers. The aggregation of traffic with similar content is one way to accomplish this. But at the end of the day, it comes down to a numbers game where higher reach is more desirable and larger audiences will get an advertisers attention. Perhaps a good illustration is Conversational Media, where individual sites/blogs have small audiences, but in aggregate, the category reaches over half a billion people worldwide, based upon comScore's trackingHundreds of companies employ this practice of traffic assignment to other companies. However, it is important to note that ownership of these sites is in no way impacted nor does the traffic from these sites disappear. Instead, it allows them to be aggregated into a larger roll up that at the end of the day can hold more appeal for a prospective advertiser. The traffic from the individual sites can still be viewed as part of the roll-up assuming it is requested by the aggregator, and the traffic meets minimum sample and reporting standards. In many situations, traffic of assignment can actually benefit a site in terms of visibility within ratings reports and can allow it to further monetize its traffic without having to build up an expensive sales force on its own.
It is worthwhile to note that traffic of assignment has been within our industry for many years now and in fact has been incorporated into the proposed industry-wide IAB Nomenclature project that has the active involvement and support of leading players within the industry including publishers, advertisers and agencies. Our procedures for accepting traffic assignments are very rigorous. We require consent, a legitimate business purpose, and do not allow the traffic to be assigned multiple times. The latter requirement ensures that the audience represented in the ratings report is not double counted as a result of different publishers claiming assignment to the same site. With these safeguards in place, the notion that traffic is being stolen is simply not true. The fact that Mr. Ritholtz opted to not acquiesce with the three requests he was presented with during the summer validates the rules of full consent and non-duplication. If he did not consent, his traffic will not be credited to anyone but himself assuming his site is large enough to show up in the ratings report.
From a business and online ad sales perspective, it’s all about delivering audiences to advertisers that allow them to meet their goals and objectives. The aggregation of larger audiences with relevant content whether it is through 100% ownership or traffic assignment, is a legitimate way to make the audience more compelling to buy by marketers and advertisers. At the end of the day, this continues to be a business measured through dollars and cents. And through these practices, stronger online audiences can be created to drive more ad revenue and that is what will help to continue to make the online world go round.
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Sheilds
Soon To Be Worthless: Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix [view article]
I'm confused by the premise of the article. Give me an example of how a blogger can assign a measure of web traffic themselves...You agree to sign the Letters of Agreement assigning all key syndicated traffic measurement firms, including but not limited to Nielsen Net Ratings and ComScore (SCOR) Media Metrix . .
This isn't clear to me. Where and how do you just 'assign' metrics like this to these companies? Reply
Stevens
The Ins and Outs of Terror-Free Investing [view article]
MPVALUCHThanks for responding. The fact is that the article does not "slam" any company.
The article simply reports on the actions of the government and the issues floating around among states and others to try to get a handle on this particular form of social investing that is also being driven in part by government actions.
The article takes no position on any company and does not take a position on whether terror-free investing is a good or bad idea, helpful or hurtful for international outcomes, or suitable or unsuitable for any person. The article reports on the phenomenon and does not promote the matter one way or the other.
You have misread the article and might look at it once again to see that no opinion is expressed about any company.
If anything, the article suggests that the process might in fact create some undesirable to unjust outcomes in the implementation.
You are certainly correct that SEC filings are historical and SEC reviews of filings take some time after the filing, so it is highly likely that the SEC will continue to list certain companies for a limited period of time as having operations that may have been discontinued.
Sorry the article was upsetting to you, but your emotional reaction is misplaced. If you have concerns about how the SEC does its work, you might direct your concerns to them and not to those who report on the work of the SEC.
Richard Shaw
QVM Group LLC Reply