I have actually been on Twitter for some time now. But I wanted to update all of you with some social networking features the site now has and ways you can get more out of the content. Today, I will just talk about Twitter.
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Credit Writedowns is now on Twitter
Oct
Pete Cashmore of Mashable on Bloomberg News
Oct
Pete Cashmore launched a blog called Mashable from his home in Scotland in 2005. You may have seen the articles from the site in the links from time to time. Well, this happens to be the number 1 social media-focused blog on the Internet, usurping prior leader TechCrunch’s position. Cashmore’s site gets 10 million page [...]
Morning Links: 2009-08-24
Aug
I intend to post a “Healthcare Links” post later today. I am modelling on my Credit Crisis Timeline. But, the purpose is to present a fairly good distribution of informed articles on the health care reform debate. I don’t agree with everything you will see on that links post, but I want to try and [...]
Feed is broken
Jul
My RSS Feed is spitting out 25 posts an hour for some reason. I apologize for the nuisance. We are working to fix it.
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Server maintenance tonight
Jun
We expect to have a brief hiccup in service later tonight due to maintenance. I apologize for the inconvenience. Hopefully, we will be offline for a very short time.
Regards.
Edward
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I am banning ‘Green Shoots’
May
You will never hear this term again on Credit Writedowns – not from me, not from Marshall or anywhere else. I am sick of hearing this phrase and am banning it for good – hoping it goes away and dies a gruesome and painful death.
And don’t get sneaky and try putting it in your comments. [...]
New Finance Blog: New Deal 2.0
May
This is a new, progressive economic policy blog from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that launched on April 29th.
The effort is lead by Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee. With contributors like Joseph Stiglitz, New Deal 2.0 is a “one-stop shop” for new insights, analyses and proposals on the [...]
Google: Why I am switching from FeedBurner to FeedBlitz
May
I have grown pretty frustrated with FeedBurner, the RSS Feed Service now owned by Google. Often, my posts have not gone out immediately. There are significant ‘outages’ where the service is just plain broken. And their Feed count reporting has become pretty screwy. So, I have switched to FeedBlitz, a new competing service. If you [...]
On BBC World Service talking autos at 2PM Eastern
Apr
I will be on the BBC World Service at 2PM ET talking about the Chrysler bankruptcy. First will be a television interview and then a radio interview. I will post the clips if and when they become available.
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The German econblogger space is just fine
Apr
This past Sunday Felix Salmon wrote a post called “10 reasons for the lack of German econobloggers.” I found it inaccurate and offensive. Let me tell you why.
I was in Germany at the time I read the post and had been there for the better part of the week. In reading and [...]
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