Comments on: Too Many Posts ?

By: VennData

VennData — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:31:51 +0000

Which posts should be removed?

Sort of like in ‘Amedeus,’ Mozart’s response to the royalty who when asked to comment on his recent piece, describes it as having “too many notes.”

By: alfred e

alfred e — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:21:51 +0000

Herbert Simon. A seriously deep thinker. Have no idea how he continued. (Sigh).

Guess it was a different era.

By: How the Common Man Sees It

How the Common Man Sees It — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:17:21 +0000

I agree with onlooker Big E. Right click the date and time link for the last post and ‘open in new tab’ that way you’ll know if anything has posted under it because the refresh will go right to that post on the page

By: Onlooker from Troy

Onlooker from Troy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:31:31 +0000

Big E

If you keep each thread open in a separate tab, you can just refresh to read the new comments in each without losing your place. That’s how I do it. I also keep the main page in a separate thread and refresh it periodically. I don’t do the RSS thing.

By: VennData

VennData — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:12:57 +0000

I would keep Big Picture and axe Zero Hedge. When the Henry Weingarten …

http://www.afund.com/

… of blogging, Zero Hedge, tells you Goldman Sachs front runs their clients and that Renaissance Technologies is a ponzi scheme, you know you’re dealing with a clown…

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/incredibly-shrinking-market-liquidity.html

…shoot for bucket number six Zero Hedge… ROFL. Nice big floppy shoes Zero.

By: Big E

Big E — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:22:33 +0000

How do you guys keep up with the comments in the various threads? Just keep revisiting threads to find new comments?

By: Pat G.

Pat G. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:34:39 +0000

I agree with Mike, beth1708 and Donna. But I do not agree with the Herbert Simon quote. From the many blogs I frequent, I read from 15 to 20 articles a day. Many adults today have a short attention span, so don’t blame it on information overload.

By: globaleyes

globaleyes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:28:05 +0000

Low Quality Posts @ The Big Picture?

Never!

This blog is a magnet for writers whose words become content for the data-driven masses.

By: dsimmons

dsimmons — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:04:49 +0000

I signed up for Barry Ritholtz, only.

By: Kent @ The Financial Philosopher

Kent @ The Financial Philosopher — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:11:44 +0000

First and foremost, Barry, do what you wish. It’s your blog. With that said, personally, I believe your blog was strongest, in terms of posting frequency and raw passion, around two years ago. Still, you remain one of the best in the blogosphere…

My recollection was that you had around two or three posts per day along with a “linkfest” and “Friday Night Jazz” on the weekends.

Things change. You have a personal life and a schedule to attend to. Personally, however, I am a “less is more” type of person.

I’ll leave you (and your readers) with some words you already know:

“… in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” Herbert Simon (1916 – 2001)

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BR: The book was a killer — that really sucked a lot of life out of the me.

The Blog readers were a huge source of help – info and research and art work. I have to honestly say that Bailout Nation was very much crowd sourced.