Abnormal Returns
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Are you looking for a fast and efficient way to scan the Web for investment information and insight? Rated as one of the
top 50 business blogs by the
Times Online, Abnormal Returns, an investing blog, offers linkfest, a daily post of recent investment and market related information. Linkfest summarizes recent posts and articles from leading investment blogs and financial portals. You don't have to be a speed-reader to quickly review linkfest and click on links of interest. To learn more or post your review and comments, visit the
Abnormal Returns Moneysmartz Profile.
The Big Picture
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If you are looking for a rudder during these turbulent economic times, then The Big Picture, an economic and investing blog, offers straight talk and insight to help steady your ship. The Big Picture, authored by CNBC contributor and author Barry Ritholtz, does not sugar coat market turmoil, but instead offers insight that you can use to make smarter decisions. For example, when commenting on the definition of a bear market in a recent post, The Big Picture offers the following advice: "Rather than focus on terminology, investors should be considering their risk management strategies, what they are doing to preserve capital, and how they are psychologically prepared to deal with what could be an extended downturn." To learn more or post your review and comments, visit the
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What's better than the smell of coffee in the morning? For technology and investing aficionados, the smell of profits is the only way to start the day.
Yahoo's recently launched video-centric blog,
Tech Ticker, with its tagline, "I Love the Smell of Profits in the Morning," aims to "bring stocks and and the stories to life - and to reveal the culture of an ecosystem often understood only by those who inhabit it."
That's a mouthful in the morning, but a visit to the site reveals investment insights like today's lead about Google's new mobile operating system, Android.
Contributors to the site include many well-known Wall Street and Silicon Valley journalists.
If you can't forsake your coffee, try caffeine with profits, a powerful combination any day.
Lifehacker
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Tags: Financial Blogs, Financial Software, Lifehacker, New and Notable, Productivity, Software
If you like being productive and saving time, then Lifehacker should keep you busy saving time. This popular site offers an array of software downloads and productivity tools covering many topics, including personal finance. It's not that difficult to find what you are looking for in Lifehacker, but to save you time, here are links to a few popular finance related topics: personal finance, money, saving money, tax time, taxes, and quicken.
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Site Name: The Curious Capitalist
Blog Description: A new blog from Fortune.com with economic reflections, stock market insights, and a new view of the unusual workings of the corporate world from Fortune editor at large Justin Fox.
Personal Finance Category: Economic Blogs
Born on Date: September 20, 2006
Blog Author Profile: Fortune Editor-at-large Justin Fox covers economic, international business, and finance topics, including leading the magazine's economic coverage. Prior to his current position, Justin was Fortune's European editor and worked in the trenches as a staff writer for the American Banker and the Birmingham News.
Bottom Line: The Curious Capitalist offers the big picture on the economy and a unique take on corporate trends helping stock pickers and market observers get an edge.
Real Estate Bubble Blogs Revisited
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Today, Bloomberg.com reported that weakness in the housing market may result in the first median price home price decline since the Great Depression. Scary stuff. However, for many real estate bubble bloggers, the Bloomberg report is old news. If you are worried about the housing market, particularly in your neighborhood, then the recently updated Moneysmartz Housing Bubble Blog category may provide the information you need. The category contains regional blogs, including Pigginton's Econo-Almanac, focusing on the Southern California real estate market and Seattle Bubble, chronicling where else, the Seattle market. Patrick.net, a Moneysmartz Pick, offers both national and regional coverage.
Kiplinger's Must-Read Investing Bloggers
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The October 2006 issue of Kiplinger's offers a list of must-read investing blogs, including nine blogs featured in Moneysmartz. Investing blogs appear to have some staying power as most of the blogs in previous Moneysmartz Directory updates, including Investing Blogs, Economics Blogs, Financial Podcasts, and Personal Finance Blogs are still actively posting. The Kiplinger list offers blogs for the hard-core number cruncher, including the 10Q Detective and one of our favorites, Footnoted.org, and a wide-range of blogs covering economics, personal finance, and mutual funds. Blogs continue to move toward the mainstream, as a blog in the Kiplinger list, Seeking Alpha, now provides content to Yahoo! Finance. From the perspective of financial decision-making, many investment blogs provide fresh insights directly from investment professionals. However, anyone can start a blog and begin offering advice, so as always, it's important to consider the source before devoting a lot of time to a blog.
- The Buffett Blog - Dedicated to studying the Oracle of Omaha while celebrating the Muse from Margaritaville. Maintained by the Buffett Group at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
- Dear Economist - Answers Financial Times reader problems with the tools of Adam Smith.
- Footnoted.org - Uncovering the story behind financial statements.
- Freeakonomics - A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
- Fund Alarm - Helping investors decide when to sell mutual funds.
- The Kirk Report - Independent and award-winning stock picks and investment advice.
- Mad Money Machine - Podcast that reviews the Mad Money recommendations of Jim Cramer.
- PFBlogs.com - Aggregates feeds from many of the top personal financial webloggers.
- Random Roger's Big Picture - Stock market blog about portfolio management, navigating the current market environment, how to analyze and choose foreign stocks, exchange traded funds, and options.
- Seeking Alpha - Dashboard for network of stock market and personal finance blogs.
- 10Q Detective - Investors often overlook SEC filings, and it is the job of the 10Q Detective to dig through businesses 8-K and 10-Q SEC filings, looking for financial statement soft spots, such as depreciation policies, warranty reserves, and restructuring charges.
Real Estate Investing Blogs
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Nothing can take the place of experience. In real estate investing, perhaps the best experience comes from walking away from the security of a 9 to 5 paycheck and giving it all to real estate investing. If you are looking to begin real estate investing, then you should consider spending some time with ProHabber.com, the Moneysmartz choice for Best of the Web real estate investing blog. Started by a full-time real estate investor, ProHabber.com offers guidance on every aspect of real estate investing. If you are new to the game, then be sure to read ProHabber's Investing Rules. For inspiration on getting started as a full-time real estate investor, read more about ProHabber's author, Bryan Casteel.
Real Estate Blogs
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Moneysmartz recently completed a survey of real estate blogs, finding a variety of useful general-interest real estate blogs. The Moneysmartz real estate blog category includes blogs about real estate trends, economics, news, opinion, and urban living. This category is also a catchall for blogs not fitting into categories such as real estate investing, real estate bubble, and regional real estate. From this list, Moneysmartz identified a select few must adds to your feed readers and bookmarks.
The Walk-Through -
The New York Times real estate blog.
Calculated Risk -
By a senior executive, retired from a public company, with a background in investing, finance and economics.
Matrix -
Items of interest or relevance in the real estate economy.
The Real Estate Blog -
Real estate happenings, prices, trends, and notes of interest.
Real Estate Blogs
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The Moneysmartz real estate blog category includes blogs about real estate trends, economics, news, opinion, and urban living. This category is also a catchall for blogs not fitting into categories such as real estate investing, real estate bubble, and regional real estate. The Moneysmartz real estate blog category is most helpful if you are looking for real estate news and trends or a diverse perspective on the real estate industry. Because blogs in this category are generally more eclectic, be prepared to dig deeper to find posts of relevance to your concerns.
- Calculated Risk - By a senior executive, retired from a public company, with a background in investing, finance and economics.
- Hot Property - The real story on real estate from Business Week Online.
- housingfinance - Deals, subsidies, gossip, taxes, and sneaky fine print in the world of rental real estate, from the editors and writers of Apartment Finance Today and Affordable Housing Finance magazines.
- Inman News - Real estate news and advice for buyers, sellers and investors.
- Matrix - Items of interest or relevance in the real estate economy.
- Triple Mint - Online review dedicated to new urban residential development, design, and living.
- Urban Trekker Blog - Tracking urban living and real estate trends in the nation and Washington, DC.
- Vacation Home Insider - Savvy news about second homes, vacation homes, fractionals and resorts from a professional reporter.
- Zillow Blog - Blog of online real estate service Zillow.com.
Regional Real Estate Blogs
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Blogging is an easy way for real estate agents, mortgage bankers, and other real estate professionals to promote their services. Regional real estate blogs offer property listings, mortgage information, economic data, news, and even local activities and events. Regional real estate blogs are most helpful if you are relocating, looking for a new home, or want to take the pulse of your region. Here's the current Moneysmartz list of regional real estate blogs:
- Brownstoner - An unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones and the neighborhoods and lifestyles they define.
- Curbed - In New York City, it comes back to real estate, rent and the neighborhoods we inhabit.
- Curbed LA - LA real estate news and information.
- Curbed SF - LA real estate news and information.
- SocketSite - A San Francisco real estate blog covering trends, insight, and breaking news.
- 360Digest - Seattle real estate, popular culture, news and opinion.
- Austin Real Estate News - Covers market conditions, statistics and developments in and around the Austin, Texas area including Austin, Lakeway, Lake Travis, Dripping Springs, Cedar Park and Round Rock.
- Buy a Home in Ohio - Educational tool for home-buyers in Ohio, covering all aspects of home-buying and home financing.
- Luxury Sarasota Living - In Sarasota, it all comes back to real estate, high-rise condos, waterfront living and the luxury Florida lifestyle.
- LA real estate - A Los Angeles real estate weblog. Prices, trends, musings and market commentary.
- Move UP to Naperville - Information, comments, thoughts, opinions, discussion and questions mostly about real estate in and around the Naperville, Illinois area.
- Property Grunt - a blog by a soldier in the trenches of the Manhattan real estate war presenting information and commentary on the market.
- Wilmington NC Real Estate - Blogging the latest on the Wilmington North Carolina real estate market and happenings around town.
Real Estate Investing Blogs
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"Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned." Donald Trump
Woven into the American dream is the idea, opportunity, and reality of making money through real estate. Most recently, real estate investing has been a boon for many.
With gurus like Guy Kiyosaki espousing the virtues of real estate investing, low interest rates, and a stable economy, real estate investing appears to be at near-term apex (see Real Estate Bubble Blogs to see what the future may hold for real estate).
Moneysmartz identified a small but growing cohort of real estate bloggers, bravely chronicling the risks and opportunities of real estate investing. Given the inherently local nature of real estate, most real estate investment blogs focus on narrow, regional slices of the real estate market.
If you are a real estate investor or interested in getting started investing, then the list should provide ideas, encouragement, and helpful insights.
With storm clouds brewing, we'll be watching to see if this list grows.
- Arizona Real Estate Blog - Anything and everything to do with real estate–Buying it, selling it, investing in it, making a living at it.
- Changing Directions - Real estate investing following the principles taught in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".
- Adventures in Money Making - Follow a 31 yr old Real Estate Investor seeking freedom from the shackles of the 9-5 job and meanders through real estate investing, stock and commodity trading and looking for businesses.
Real Estate Bubble Blogs
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Be worried, be very worried.
In addition to global warming, the dollar, and Iraq, add the housing bubble to your list of worries.
This is old news for many, but the chorus of concern seems to be reaching a climax.
Get ready for another decline say a growing list of real estate bubble bloggers.
In surveying real estate bubble bloggers, Moneysmartz found some very, very depressing news and more than a few blogs worth a moment of your time, particularly if you live in a bubble market.
- Another F@cked Borrower - Mortgage insiders view on the lending industry, the housing bubble, and the loose credit standards that drove it all.
- Bubble Meter - Dedicated to uncovering the who, what, where, when, and how of the housing bubble.
- BubbleTrack - Analyzing the housing market in the northeastern region of the United States. In addition to general market commentary, BubbleTrack provides market and news analysis based on a complex trending tool called BATT.
- Flip This - A blog dedicated to really stupid (or grossly optimistic) real estate flips in Orange County.
- Northern Virginia Bubble - Dedicated to tracking the real estate bubble in the Northern Virginia counties of the DC Metro region, including Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties.
- Out at the peak - What to do with your money after getting out of the housing market.
- Seattle Bubble - News and discussion about the real estate / housing bubble, specifically as it pertains to the Seattle area.
- The Housing Bubble Blog - Examining the home price boom and its effect on owners, lenders, regulators, realtors and the economy as a whole.
Investing Blogs
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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." Agatha Christie
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." Benjamin Franklin
The world of investment blogging is blossoming, with a lot of good advice, and even more bad advice, some of it coming from individuals who probably couldn't tell the difference between a 401k and mutual fund.
With the always-present disclaimer of "buyer beware", we offer the recently updated Moneysmartz Investing Blog directory, full of advice and commentary.
In compiling the new investing blog directory, we found several award-winning sites and a few notable newcomers.
- Bill Cara - Discussion and perspectives on capital markets and social equity.
- Fallond Picks - Market commentary and stock selections using technical analysis.
- footnoted.org - Uncovering the story behind financial statements.
- MaoXian - Market analysis and commentary.
- Random Roger's Big Picture - Stock market blog about portfolio management, navigating the current market environment, how to analyze and choose foreign stocks, exchange traded funds, and options.
- Seeking Alpha - Dashboard for network of stock market and personal finance blogs.
- SelfInvestors - Online Stock trading/investing of small/mid cap growth, technical analysis, stock charts, commentary, insider buying for the self investor.
- The Kirk Report - Independent and award-winning stock picks and investment advice.
- Trader Mike - A stock trader's daily market commentary and observations including trading ideas and stocks to watch.
- Ugly Chart - Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder.
- Under The Counter - It's all about the people, stupid. Who's getting paid, laid, hired and fired on The Street.
Tax Blogs
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Does the thought of anything related to taxes send shivers down your spine? Since we are in the midst of tax season, we don't have a choice; we have to talk about taxes.
In addition to well known tax websites, like H&R Block, Tax Cut, and IRS.com, tax bloggers now offer a small, but growing body of information, insight, and commentary.
Moneysmartz took a closer look at this trend-setting group of tax bloggers and identified tax blogs most helpful to individual financial decision-making.
Many narrowly focused and newly minted blogs remain on the cutting room floor. We included a few sites on our list with a narrow focus that have cross-over appeal to a mainstream audience, including Tax Prof Blog, a blog we recently reviewed.
When reviewing the list, you'll need to conjure up as much tax nerd as humanly possible. You'll probably find the list most helpful if you receive one of those scary letters from the IRS.
Tax Blogs: Best of the Personal Finance Web 2006
Taxes
Don't Mess With Taxes: Tax news, tips, commentary and humor from professional tax journalist Kay Bell.
Our Taxing Times: A blog about US taxes, the tax system, and the tax preparation business.
Roth and Company, P.C., Tax Updates: Tax updates and commentary.
Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter: Arkansas CPA helps capitalists, investors and small business owners win the tax game.
Taxes>Business
A Taxing Business: News and information on tax and business organization issues.
Taxes>Business>Ohio
Frederick Focke Mischler, Attorney: Review of accounting, tax, and legal issues that face businesses and business owners in Ohio.
Taxes>California
Taxable Talk: Focuses on taxes and how they impact what we, as citizens and taxpayers, get to keep in our pockets.
Taxes>Estate Planning
Death and Taxes - The Blog: Commentary on estate planning, estate administration, and real estate issues from a Chicago-area attorney.
Taxes>Tax Issues
Talking Taxes: Review of important issues in federal, state and local tax reform, with an emphasis on fair and adequate taxation.
Taxes>Tax Law
MauledAgain: Tax law professor's commentary on tax law, legal education, the First Amendment, religion, and law generally, with sporadic attempts to connect all of this to genealogy, theology, music, model trains, and chocolate chip cookies.
TaxProf Blog: A blend of reference tools and announcements about developing tax issues targeting tax professors but with applicability to individuals looking for current news and information about tax law changes on topics such as mortgage interest deductions and tax shelters.
Taxes>Tax Preparation Services and Software
Taxalicious: Provides information about tax preparation services and software.
Pink Blog
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Site Name: Pink Blog
Description: The daily observations of A Whole New Mind author Dan Pink.
Personal Finance Category: Difficult to categorize, but Voluntary Simplicity is a related theme.
Born on Date: May 2005
Content: Original and news commentary
Unique Features: Links to Dan Pink projects, including excerpts and reviews of recently published A Whole New Mind.
Distinctions: Kudos for Dan Pink's book from Tom Peters, Seth Godin, and Newsweek to name a few.
Profile of Blog Author: Dan Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation. He is a contributing editor at Wired and writes the "The Trend Desk" column for Yahoo! Finance.
Bottom Line: In the spirit of thinking creatively about your future (including your finances) a visit to Dan Pink's blog will help stimulate new ideas and perhaps identify trends beneficial to financial and personal well-being. Provocative commentary, including an October 2005 post on the abundance gap, will help you gain a new perspective on life and money.
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Random Roger's Big Picture
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Site Name: Random Roger's Big Picture Blog
Description: A stock market blog about portfolio management, navigating the current market environment, how to analyze and choose foreign stocks, exchange traded funds, options and the occasional musing about blog author Roger Nusbaum's wildland firefighting experiences.
Personal Finance Category: Investing
Born on Date: September 2004
Content: Original and news commentary
Unique Features: A lot of posting activity and a list of select investing resources.
Distinctions: Winter 2004 Forbes Favorite and “Best Financial Blog� by CNN/Money.
Profile of Blog Author: Roger Nusbaum is a portfolio manager for Your Source Financial in Phoenix. With over 20 years of financial services experience, Roger appears frequently on CNBC Asia as a market commentator.
Bottom Line: If you are looking to diversify your portfolio with foreign holdings, get a handle on option intricacies, ongoing market commentary, or learn about exchange traded funds, then Roger's Big Picture offers plain talking, straightforward insight.
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Benefitsblog
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Site Name: Benefitsblog
Description: A tax, benefits, and ERISA law commentary and news filter by Pennsylvania-based attorney B. Janell Grenier.
Personal Finance Category: Compensation and Benefits, Taxes, and Retirement
Born on Date: April 2003
Content: Original and news review excerpts
Unique Features: 2005 and 2006 retirement plan limits, extensive resource with links to related blogs including benefits blogs, and links to IRS regulations.
Distinctions: Referenced by numerous university and governmental agency blogs and articles including one by Marketwatch's Robert Powell about Retirement Blogs.
Profile of Blog Author: B. Janell Grenier is principal of the Law Office of B. Janell Grenier located in the Philadelphia region. In addition to Benefitsblog, she is the author of ERISA law commentary and ERISAblog, an ERISA law commentary.
Bottom Line: Benefitsblog may be too esoteric for the average Moneysmartz reader, but if you are looking for up to date benefits information, like 2005 and 2006 retirement plan limits, then Benefitsblog will generate a healthy return on investment and is well worth a visit.
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TaxProf Blog
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Site Name: TaxProf Blog
Description: A blend of reference tools and announcements about developing tax issues targeting tax professors but with applicability to individuals looking for current news and information about tax law changes on topics such as mortgage interest deductions and tax shelters.
Personal Finance Category: Taxes
Born on Date: April 2004
Content: Original and news review excerpts
Unique Features: Significant resource section with links to other tax blogs, tax professor blogs, and tax organizations.
Distinctions: Recognized as "A must read blog" by The Wall Street Journal and "The undisputed champion of tax blogging" by Tax Notes.
Profile of Blog Author: Paul Caron is a University of Cincinnati Professor of Law and nationally recognized tax scholar. He is editor and co-editor of numerous journals and blogs.
Bottom Line: This blog is not for the mainstream Moneysmartz reader, but shows how good a blog can be and offers tidbits for tax junkies.
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Adult ADD and Money
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Site Name: Adult ADD and Money Blog
Description: Information and friendly advice on business and money management for any adult with Atttention Deficit Discorder (ADD)/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Personal Finance Category: Money Management
Born on Date: January 2006
Content: Original
Unique Features: ADD Teleclasses and listing of ADD websites.
Distinctions: Only blog of its kind, focusing on ADD and money.
Profile of Blog Author: John MacKenzie consults Entrepreneurs with ADD / ADHD, helping them deal with ADD / ADHD issues hindering their success. He is also the assistant director of ADDClasses.com. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University and his MBA from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Other Links to Adult Add and Money in Moneysmartz: Money Management Blogs Directory.
Bottom Line: Managing money successfully is hard enough, so for those with ADD/ADHD this resource provides a new perspective and assistance on making better financial decisions.
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Sound Money Tips
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Site Name: Sound Money Tips Blog
Description: One quick personal finance tip every day. Credit cards, banking, investing, insurance, mortgages, frugal living and online shopping.
Personal Finance Category: Money Management
Born on Date: December 2004
Content: Original
Unique Features: One personal finance tip a day.
Distinctions: It's parent, Seeking Alpha, has many, including recent recognition by Forbes and The Wall Street Journal
Profile of Blog Author: Living in Jerusalem with his wife and three children, Michael Weinstein, a University of Michigan Alum, is a financial journalist and online content specialist who has worked within emerging tech companies and as a marketing/financing consultant.
Other Links to Sound Money Tips in Moneysmartz: Money Management Blogs Directory.
Bottom Line: A tip a day keeps bankruptcy away.
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MyMoneyBlog
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MyMoneyBlog, another "personal financial tracking blog", chronicles the progress and insights of Jonathan, 27 and married, with almost $90,000 in the bank. With posts starting in December 2004, MyMoneyBlog is a senior citizen in the world of personal finance blogs. Succinct, easy to navigate, well organized, and peppered with those ubiquitous Google Ads, the site offers the full menu of personal finance topics, including the customary review of Lee Eisenberg's The Number. MyMoneyBlog, as well as its cohort of blogs, ultimately begs the question: "With limited time and so many similar personal financial tracking blogs from which to choose, which blog(s) should one read?" Since the answer to this question probably depends on personal taste, MyMoneyBlog is worth a nibble of your time.
Related personal finance website categories: Investing, Money Management, and Personal Finance
Will the Real PFBlogs Please Stand-up?
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Yesterday, I posted a review of PFBLOGS.org. After a little searching and by accident, I discovered PFBLOGS.com. Interestingly, both sites are similar, with one, PFBLOGS.org, offering personal finance blog feeds without advertising, and the other, PFBLOGS.com, offering feeds with advertising. Moneysmartz promptly removed the post in order to get a better understanding of the situation.
PFBLOGS.com launched in January, with advertising, and a commitment to removing inactive feeds. PFBLOGS.org, launched in February, without ads, and with more blogs, some of which, according to the PFBLOGS.com development site, may be violating the terms of the creative commons license in the feed. As said in the PFBLOGS.com development blog, "competition is good", so, in that spirit, here's the original post on PFBLOGS.org (with additional text in the last sentence):
PFBLOGS.org, the ad-free personal finance aggregator, is just that, free of ads and full of entries from personal finance blogs. Recently launched, pfblogs.org already lists almost 200 blogs with over 2,000 entries. Categorized by popular personal finance topics including real estate, investing, and personal finance, pfblogs.org offers an uncluttered continuous stream of personal finance. If you are interested in experiencing the complete array of personal finance blogging, then take a moment to visit pfblogs.org (or, if you prefer, PFBLOGS.com).
Related personal finance website categories: Investing, Money Management, and Personal Finance
Consumerism Commentary
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Currently at the top of Google search results for “Personal Finance Blogs�, Consumerism Commentary is one of a growing list of personal finance blogs dedicated to tracking the financial progress of its author. Authored by Flexo, an anonymous 29-year-old musician and thinker, Consumerism Commentary offers commentary on a wide-range of personal finance topics, including 401(k)’s, ETF’s and even job-hopping advice. Scattered throughout the site, advertisements blend in and manage to remain unobtrusive. Rotating headlines evidence a sense of humor, including “Blabbing to the whole neighborhood how much my haircuts cost.� Well-categorized blog links provide a convenient launching pad to discover the world of personal finance on the web. A visit to Consumer Commentary may be most beneficial if you are about the same age as Flexo and thinking of your own financial journey.
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With a recent spate of articles about America’s declining savings rate, now may be the time to find ways to save money. Frugal for Life, dedicated to simple, frugal living, provides observations and experiences on the frugal, simple life and a collection of links to related frugal living sites, including blogs, forums, and free classifieds. Frugal for Life reflects the blogging trend of “monetization� with an assortment of Google ad links. Because of intuitive placement and relevance to frugality and simple living, advertisements generally enhance the site. If you are looking for complete frugality immersion, then check out the Frugal for Life newsletter archive. With soothing graphics, easy navigation, and fresh content, five minutes with Frugal for Life may jump start your savings and lead to a simpler life.
