Blogs/Feeds roll

Finding and reading insightful blogs yields one of the best time invested/knowledge extracted ratio, and enables to build up expertise on a wide range of topics. Roger Ehrenberg (former President and CEO of DB Advisors LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG managing over $6 billion in capital through a twenty-strategy hedge fund platform with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong) perfectly – and with far more credibility – worded my views:

To be honest, I’m not sure how I functioned before the world of RSS. The insights and perspectives I get on a daily basis on a stupidly wide range of issues is truly incomprehensible. The resources are out there for the taking, if only one invests the time to dig around, identify those words and themes that best describe a domain and then to focus in on the best sources of information in those areas. It takes a while to get the hang of it but when you do, the ability to stay current on truly bleeding-edge topics without picking up the phone or spending a dime is mind-boggling. (Entire post)   

Finance

• Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture)
• Macro Man (In real life, Macro Man is a global financial markets trader…)
• Abnormal Returns, fantastic daily round up of noteworthy articles and blog posts
• Roger Ehrenberg (Information Arbitrage)
• Going Private (Equity Private)
• Jeff Matthews (Jeff Matthews is not making this up)
• Howard Lindzon
• Capital Chronicle (RJH Adams)
• Veryan Allen (Hedge Fund)
• The epicurean Deal Maker
• Very good map of the “Econoblogosphere” over at Market Movers
• Paul Kedrosky (Infectious Greed; not just tech, very broad)
• Market Beat (WSJ)
• Breet Steenbarger (TraderFeed)

Strategy

• John Hagel (Edge Perspectives)
• Umair Haque (Strategies for a discountinuous future)

Technology

• O’Reilly Radar
• Read/Write Web (very good)
• Dion Hinchcliffe (Enterprise web 2.0)
• Fred Wilson (VC point of view on tech.)
• Techcrunch

Soft Context

• Richard Florida
• Tom Peters
• Marc Andreessen
• JP Rangaswami (Confused of Calcutta)
• Seth Godin (Marketing, but marketing is part of any action/project: you’ve got to sell!)
• Andrew McAfee (most often than not I disagree, but hey, he’s quoted everywhere…)
• Feed for The Financial Page, the column of James Surowiecki in The New Yorker
• Chris Anderson (The long tail)

Hard Context

• Stratfor, geopolitical analysis agency that provides a free daily (and 5-minutes long) podcast analysis: listen to the podcast in the tube, and register to receive their free briefs
• Free Exchange (The Economist, normally focused on economics, but in reality providing global insights)
• Rough Type (Nick Carr)
• Nouriel Roubini (RGE Monitor)
• Brad Setser (RGE Monitor)
• Energy Roundup, great daly press review, from the WSJ
• Robert Rapier (R-Squared Energy Blog)
• Lou Grinzo (The cost of Energy)
• Geoffrey Styles (Energy Outlook)
• Climateer Investing
• Climateer Economics

Podcasts (for when about the only thing you can comfortable do is listen to something interesting: tube, airport security lanes, cabs, etc….)

• Stratfor’s podcast
• The Economist Audio Edition (fantastic!))