Jason Unger

WallStats Goes After Overpriced HDMI Cables

Posted by junger - 04/02/10 at 04:04:56 pm

As a personal finance junkie and lover of all things tech, it's not often when these two hobbies/passions connect (except when I tweet that it's a good thing I don't have $500 to spend on a new iPad.)

WallStats, which makes some great infographs on finance and the economy, is going after one of the most controversially priced technology products: HDMI cables.

In this infograph, WallStats is singling out Monster Cable for their pricing, but while they may have created the high-end cable market, Monster is hardly the only company to charge higher prices for their cables.

Check this out.

Penelope Trunk Fired From Yahoo! Finance

Posted by junger - 12/27/07 at 09:12:17 am

How to deal with getting fired (from Yahoo)

Wow. If there's any columnist out there today who doesn't deserve to be fired, it's Penelope Trunk.

But she's been canned from Yahoo! Finance, according to her blog, because her career-oriented columns lower the overall CPM of the finance-related articles on Yahoo.

While this is a legitimate excuse, it's not like there isn't money to be made in career advice advertising. People will pay for material if they know that they'll be getting something valuable in return. Penelope's columns deliver that.

Even though she's written her last column for Yahoo, at least she gets to go out with a promo for her blog and RSS feed.

(Yes, she is my friend on facebook.)