The financial blogosphere didn’t go away, the long form blog just isn’t the optimal method of communication for everyone these days $$

on stocks, I think a lot moved to Seeking Alpha RT @abnormalreturns: [post] Where did all the finance bloggers go? http://stks.co/jDX1 $$

@abnormalreturns still blogging about small cap value stocks, have notice the same phenomenon that you have.

@ReformedBroker @abnormalreturns I think Tadas has it right – many outlets for real-time market chat & blogs not as widely read/updated.

Unless you are a HFB (high frequency blogger; eg, zerohedge, BI), documenting and commenting on every hiccup in the market day in, day out +

+ it’s hard to come up with interesting material you haven’t already written. Finance and its issues just don’t change that much over time.

And frankly, HFB is more news reporting than blogging, anyway, in my opinion. cc @abnormalreturns

@abnormalreturns @felixsalmon My situation aside, I’m finding the blogosphere has gotten much tradier in recent months.

@ReformedBroker @abnormalreturns I bet financial blogs started to decelerate with the rise in twitter volume.See RM “columnist conversation”

@ReformedBroker Growth of blogging professionalism; quality is concentrating, weak bloggers losing audience & quitting. @abnormalreturns

@reformedbroker @TheStalwart think its more of the decline of the independent blogger vs rise of “journalist blogger” or those w/large orgs

Finance blogging is likely dying. Josh was on point saying all major topics have been discussed to death. @ReformedBroker @felixsalmon

@hedgefundinvest We break news on Twitter now, and the good bloggers are partnering with big media. All makes sense.

some good topics get played out, but lots of investment issues aren’t cc: @abnormalreturns @ReformedBroker @hedgefundinvest @felixsalmon $$