Comments on: SuperBlog?

By: Big Announcement

Big Announcement — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:22:23 +0000

[...] idea has been discussed a few times in the past, but a bunch of us finally got the ball rolling and set up a few conference [...]

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:56:12 +0000

GIV – I’ll agree Eklund is full of sh**, it was more the specific layout of his site that I was referring to.

Mike

By: Growth in Value

Growth in Value — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:31:26 +0000

I don�t believe the Canadian personal finance world is big enough to support a blog like hockeybuzz.com

The last thing this personal finance world needs is to model itself on the “Eklund” model. The man’s been exposed as a fraud and has been wrong far far more than he’s guessed right. The beuaty of the pfblogosphere is the sincerity and genuine content. Nobody’s pretending to be someone they’re not, and whenever the odd site comes up that’s blatantly more interested in ads and revenue than providing quality content, they lose their credibility and, I hope, their readability.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:42:14 +0000

I’m sure there has to be ways to monitor the traffic to figure out all the items you mentioned.

Yah – the multi-column idea is good although space would be a problem assuming each blogger gets one column. I like the hockeybuzz idea although that won’t work if you have several bloggers sharing the site. Maybe the hockeybuzz format could be changed so that the ‘main bloggers’ or owners could have their posts show up in one column (newest at the top) and then a second column could be guest/other bloggers or whatever.

I’m still trying to figure out how to get a Canadian flag into my header so I’ve got a long way to go before I can consider expansion!

Mike

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:12:15 +0000

Thanks CD. It’s great to hear that you like the blog.

Mike

By: Canadian Dream

Canadian Dream — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:18:51 +0000

I must admit I like CC’s idea. It might be a better model that a superblog setup.

Well CC if you ever need a guest post send me an email. I would love to write one.

Mike – Thanks for the link and keep up the great work. I really enjoy your blog.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:41:37 +0000

Sounds good.

I should clarify that my comment #5 was not a serious one. I forgot the smiley…

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:29:37 +0000

Mike: I sincerely hope bloggers would maintain strict independence from the financial industry. But realistically, the blogging world will end up looking like mainstream media. Many will write about the hottest funds and star managers and a few holdouts (I hope to be one) will constantly remind people of the basics.

The model I try to emulate is Canadian Money Saver. Quality content delivered with integrity and not tainted by money. It will never be a big business but that’s okay. I didn’t get into this game hoping to make big money (I’d have given up long ago!) and I like it that way.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:13:33 +0000

MDJ: Are you serious? I’d love to have a guest post from you.

Mike: I’ll explore this idea a bit further. I guess it is worth experimenting.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:10:22 +0000

There’s a definite possibility that there just isn’t any significant money to be made in the Cdn PF world. I think what one might need to do is stop with all the low cost, save money content and instead push expensive retail products. Encourage your readers to buy mutual funds with the highest MERs they can find, pay the posted rate on their mortage, insure themselves for ten million etc etc. This way you could get some good revenue from the financial industry – they have huge bucks to spend.

Mike