I hope Matt continues to build out this financial site. I don't know what his background is, but it is a good idea. High quality analysis on breaking financial news in key sectors is a perfect weblog topic. Imagine a weblog on financial news related to a given sector (wireless vendors for example) by an industry insider. He/she could easily dissect each press release, filing, product announcement, etc. He/she could even provide first hand reports on how products are doing in showrooms or what the industry rumors are. Nice. The data could also be packaged and sold as a retail product (a PDF or Word doc). I know of one independent Internet analyst that sold a report on Internet companies he tracked for $100. 9,500 people purchased the report. This is a business model. I am sure this model would work for technology topics too. You could even use Befree to track affiliate revenue ($10 a sale) for sales generated by promotions on the sites of other webloggers. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]