Lindzon, a longtime investment advisor and fund manager, says he created the short-form show to provide an alternative to unnecessarily complicated stock market analysis. He claims the show - which he alternately describes as "Cramer with breasts" and "buy high, sell high" - currently receives about 10,000 views per episode.

Wallstrip's friends-and-family investment round included venture capitalist Fred Wilson6. As for making money, Lindzon said the show is focused on building an audience for the time being. It currently uses limited post-roll ads via Revver.

With the funding, Wallstrip plans to create five more original shows on the topics of finance and venture capital. Lindzon says, whereas Wallstrip is keeping things upbeat and happy with the all-time-high theme, "not mucking around with companies like Dell," at least one of the other shows will tackle the fact that stocks don't always go up.

We're not really traders here at Engadget, but we decided to indulge our fantasies of Gordon Gekko grandeur and put together a portfolio of tech stocks. To pull this thing together we enlisted a little help from our friends over at Blogging Stocks; we think besides being a barometer for the gadget industry, perhaps the Engadget Index will serve as a look from a different angle into the massive economy of consumer electronics.

Seeking Alpha aggregates and edits information from more than 200 leading investment and industry experts who use blogs, financial newsletters and authored articles to share their personal expertise. The news is then categorized and tickerized to run on the news pages of individual stock quote pages on Yahoo! Finance. Initially, more than 60 articles will run every business day on Yahoo! Finance, covering an average of 100 different stocks on a daily basis.

"The number one objective at Yahoo! Finance is to help our users make informed financial decisions, and Seeking Alpha significantly expands the information we provide to our audience," said Peggy White, general manager, Yahoo! Finance. "The new blog content also brings a different perspective to our users by offering commentary from the experts who work in the financial industry."

Bloggingstocks.com is a unique idea. AOL hired bloggers to write about product announcements, earnings releases, and commentary on 8 stocks initially. On its first day, the network will do live blogging of the Microsoft earnings call, for instance. (Good luck!)

So, what about the $64,000 question? Can the bloggers hold the stocks they are writing about?

Indeed. In fact, AOL encourages them to be stockholders, if not necessarily in the companies they're writing about. The key is that they have to sign a code of ethics, disclose their holdings and not trade on insider information, says Marty Moe of AOL Money & Finance.

This is the most exciting and integrated product we've done to date. Having our bloggers plugged into the AOL traffic and advertising machine is gonna be huge. In fact, my guess is bloggingstocks will become our largest and most profitable blog over the next year (finance is the best advertising category on the web).

Do you know your net worth?

Jonathan Ping, 27, does. At $91,820 he's a far stretch from his $1 million retirement goal, but he's keeping track of it.

And you can, too. Log onto his personal finance (PF) blog and see what he spends for the day, what his investments are and what he deems to be money saving tips.

"Many of my friends have bought luxury cars and are enjoying big vacations and I'm not. They see my small home and think 'Gee, is that all you can afford?' And yes, it is all I can afford. I'm not taking on debt. I'm not rewarding myself now because I know that I will have to pay for it latter."

I started blogging because I wanted a more emotional record of what I was attempting than Quicken could give me. I thought that by making my intentions somewhat public that I'd hold myself more accountable (it works for me). And I also wanted to break the silence that many women seem to have when it comes to talk about money.

Seeking Alpha founder David Jackson, a former Morgan Stanley telecommunications analyst, said he has hired a team to transcribe the calls, which often contain useful nuggets of information from corporate management teams but also take a long time to listen to. Mr. Jackson says he expects to have a transcript available on his Web site within six hours after the conference call is completed.

The fever may be most intense at Jones' free site, created after his first bubble blog crashed in May from trying to handle its 20,000 daily hits. His latest site doesn't run advertising and therefore he derives no revenue from it.

A self-described "economic activist," Jones, 41, sees his mission as chronicling a seminal financial event, something future scholars can turn to just as historians today would read an anthology of letters written by Dutch tulip traders in the 1630s.

"In 100 years, economists may be studying the comments of this blog because this was a real-time skeptics' log in the middle of a financial mania," said Jones, who rents a house with his wife in Sedona, Ariz., and doesn't own any real estate.

Jones' fervor stems largely from his status as a casualty of the dot-com meltdown, when he was the controller at an Austin, Texas, Internet firm that he declined to name. He resigned in 1999 before the company went bankrupt, after he spent a stressful final year trying to convince his entrepreneur bosses that "companies really do need to make money."

The housing market today "is just like the tech bubble," said Jones, who holds economics and business degrees from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. "That's why it's a mania — because people have forgotten the fundamentals."