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What I learned about personal finance bloggers from FINCON11

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

I arrived home safely from the Financial Blogger Conference about 2 AM today. Phil of PTMoney and friends did a superb job putting everything together.  All aspects were very well organized and very professional: the social events, the programs, the takeaways, everything.  First class from start to finish.  Amazing work Phil! There ...

See you at the Financial Blogger Conference

Friday, September 30th, 2011

To my blogging colleagues: Very much looking forward to meeting you there in person -- many of you for the first time. Best wishes to everyone for a fun and productive conference!

Here’s proof that I have a voice for silent film

Friday, February 4th, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chris Gaddis, host of the finance talk show "Money Train" on WIOX 91.3 FM in upstate New York.  We discussed how this blog got started in 2005 -- man, it's been a while! -- as well as ...

Yakezie Challenge: Did I win my Beta challenge?

Monday, January 10th, 2011

On October 8th, 2010, I announced my plan to enter the Yakezie challenge and get my Alexa rating below 100,000 by today. My ranking at that time was 132,955, which means that precisely 132,954 sites were hipper, cooler, better, and more popular than mine on October 8th, 2010.  (Well, not really, ...