mike f

Exxon - The Most Evil (and Overpriced) of the Oil Companies

Like the rest of the press, you cite biased reports (and a few weeks old, at that) in your "reporting". Guess what -- $16M thrown at some questionable scientists pales in comparison to the $100M over 10 years invested in clean energy research...search for GCEP, you will be amazed.

Yahoo Finance Now Carries Seeking Alpha Articles

Don't want to keep harping on this, but to be constructive:

How can YF publish this unsubstantiated speculation:

"Now I'm not a weather forecaster, and even if I was the odds I'd be correct wouldn't be very high, but chances are good that we could have a colder winter this year."

On this page?!:

finance.yahoo.com/q?s=...;d=t

Yahoo Finance Now Carries Seeking Alpha Articles

Congrats to SA on the deal -- this is a great site. However the nature of aggregated blog postings is that you will have a spectrum of quality and integrity. While your staff is doing a good job selecting quality posts and authors, occasionally items sneak by with ridiculous speculations, bad research, whatever. It is a little disturbing to see these listed on YF side by side with factual items and news releases.

As an example, how can one post "The NYMEX Oil Market Is Being Manipulated" next to press releases? There needs to be some sort of division. That is not a shot at Phil, his is my favorite blog!

Microsoft's iPod Rip Off is the World's Worst Kept Secret (MSFT)

don't look now, but the rumor is that MSFT will provide new users with free copies of every song they have downloaded from iTunes...meaning MSFT will pay the royalty on all of that music