New website
After a very busy week that left me hardly any time for writing, I have split the investment definitions pages off from my investment research site.
Hopefully this will improve usability and make the site more visible in search engines – although the risk is that they may take time to catch up on the change.
Google still has not got page rank flowing through my site five weeks after I changed the URL structure. Yahoo and MSN seem to have been faster at this, but on the other hand Yahoo took much longer to index my whole site in the first place and MSN has still only indexed about 10% of it.
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Music industry fails to get it.
Not content with the bad PR of suing customers, or the dubious ethics of sabotaging file sharing (which do have legitimate uses), the recorded music industry has excelled itself by annoying customers and reducing the value of their product simultaneously.
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Investors and changing media
I have previously written about how the media are changing, but, with most of the benefit likely to go to consumers and individual content creators, the more difficult question is how investors can profit from the change. However there are some areas likely to produce winners:
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How the media will change
I have little doubt that the media will be rapidly changed by technology (primarily the internet and mobile phones), and it is not too difficult to think up the most likely scenarios of that change, however this is a diffiult change for investors to profit from.
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Skyepharma – problems solved, price still down
Either the market is simply not prepared to be anything but negative on Skyepharma or I am missing something. The problems with Paxil continue, but Skyepharma has been shielded from the effects of this by a new agreement with Glaxosmithkline’s which gives Skyepharma the royalties on the budgeted sales until normal sales resume.
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