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Hmmm. This is my first post though I've been lurking on various SI threads for months. I'm a journalist. Your idea is good but it takes a lot of work. Some other possibilities might be 1) to collect excerpts from some of the posts over the last 2 years, through the peaks and valleys, the longs and shorts, and assemble a juicy but relatively short enticing overview and send it to some of the online financial portals such a CNNfn, or MSNBC (the editors are e-mail-able), with the pitch perhaps being a behind the scenes look at the phenomenon of message boards, of the incredible amount of DD and good research on them, of the human interest [i.e...the faith of some longs, the manipulating tactics of some shorts, as commented on in posts of recent days), and of the hope of getting in before something goes big. The subject would be AXC but in a sense it wouldn't--the pitch would be broader, and AXC happens to be an instance of what we're talking about. 2) Another option is to do what Raging Bull does very nicely, which is to offer a daily "newsletter" summary of the most interesting posts, thus in a sense weaving together an in-the-trenches report. SI does a sort of thing like this but not often enough. The posts on Raging Bull are about l/2 step above Yahoo. They're not often very good. SI posts are a hundred times better but the homepage site itself is not active enough, it doesn't offer enough. It's too passive. It should have a daily flow of news. |
