MoneyAM is pleased to announce the launch of its new Blog. For those who have never used a Blog, it is in essence an online personal journal where contributors can post their thoughts on life, whether they have had a good or a bad day at the office or can talk about any subject they like but perhaps with a leaning to things financial. It is somewhere you can express yourself in more depth than the BB's and without the noise and clutter of other posters on your thread! Here, the voice of the author is pre-eminent. It really is as simple as that! See what city professionals and your peers are writing in their blogs ! If you would like to have access to this blog so that you can add your own diary thoughts and experiences, please contact support@moneyam.com to apply for a login (N.B. this is a free service and no payment is required). If you would simply like to view the blog, then click on the MoneyAM Blogs button on the website to access this. You only require a login to add to the blog - it is free for all to read the blog.

cunningham,

We can't do the standard MoneyAM headers on it due to the way it is designed I am afraid - I will look into seeing if a link back to MoneyAM can be added.

Ian

Cheers Ian.

Thanks Ian

Ditto Bluelady

cunningham,

There is now a 'back to moneyam' link on the left hand side of the blog under the header which will take you back to our home page when you have finished looking at the blog.

Ian

ok must have missed that I have to re key the home page...
It gave me the impression I had left the moneyam site..

as the feel of it is so different

don't know anything about blogs. how does it all work?

I think its just a load of people, in general not specifically the moneyam blog, who write loads of stuff about their life and then try to get visitor numbers up to attract advertisers on their blog to then make money,
I dont see how it fits into MoneyAm -?

bosley,

Basically it allows 'the blogger' to enter their thoughts - its a kind of online diary.

Click on the MoneyAm Blogs button below the investors room button and you will see recent postings. To see futher postings, either select a category or click on the posters name.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to e mail support@moneyam.com

Ian

definitely one of the odder ideas.

On the 'odder' hand, it could be a really good wheeze!

Sorry.

;-0

Definitely an interesting set of "polar" views - bloggers and Luddites by the look of it! ;-))

PS - will keep an eye on it, but personally don't know if time would allow posts on threads as well as blogging. Shame to split it.

Thanks Ian. Thats removed the need to presss the back button five times:-)

More on this at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6079824.stm

Google offers personal searches

(Users can generate cash from their custom search engines too)

A bespoke search engine that can be included on people's websites or blogs is the latest offering from Google.

Google Custom Search Engine, as the tool is known, allows users to choose which webpages to search.

Users can also customise the look of results, how web content is prioritised or add paying adverts to the results.

Bulletin boards have their place and blogs have their place in my opinion, but the two are not the same. If I want to write a series of themed pieces on some aspect of trading that remain sequential and coherent without it descending into chat, argument or otherwise going off-topic, how do I do that in the current bulletin board format? Boards are like pubs on Friday night where conversations are quickly forgotten, blogs are like books which you read while they are written, and which can stand as permanent records in a way that hundreds of disparate bulletin board postings can not. But if you don't like them, don't read them.

I started writing blogs, and I know others who've done the same, because they liked writing, and yes, they think they have a story worth telling - even if only to a handful of readers. Personally though I wouldn't care if no-one read what I wrote because I write for myself first and foremost. There's no money in blogging for 99.99% of their writers but there are often financial costs for the serious blogger who moves beyond Blogger and free Flickr accounts. Some try to subsidise the cost with advertising but it does send out a negative message.

The future of the web is, and arguably always was, in user-generated content - or Web 2.0 if we must refer to it as such, and blogs, wikis and the like can add to the collective experience if implemented wisely. MoneyAM can use their blogs to RSS feed and otherwise push content to external sites and services in a way which bulletin board posting is unlikely to ever lend itself to - so it's a good thing for the site if the content is generated.

In any case, they are far from the first financial site to go down this route:

http://www.stockhouse.ca/blogs.asp

I agree Kyoto and I enjoyed your little blog piece. Keep them coming if you have time.

The only thing I wasn't sure about with the MoneyAM blog is whether there is a way to track all blogs by a certain contributor. For example, how would I find a list of blog postings by Kyoto.

Isaacs. Good point, we are adding that facility. At the moment if you click on the contributor's name it will list their blogs but it's not user friendly so we will develop a contributor index.

Mike

I will dig deeper, Kyoto.