Well, this has been a busy week. Not for adding analysis and content to the EKTAN, that's for sure. Rather, it's been interesting to track the two posts, my first "pillar" post of the EKTAN, "One Scenario for Sprint's Long Term Future" and the more recent "Undoing the Sprint Nextel Merger," from the EKTAN that I've made to Seeking Alpha.com. I've submitted a third article also that will probably hit the web site in the next day on the "How Low Can The Sprint Stock Go" post. In this post, I wanted to repeat a smattering of where these articles end up, once they get posted on analysis sites that get real traffic and some comments and feedback.
As of now, the "Undoing" article has received 27 comments on Seeking Alpha. There's been a very interesting debate, some of it logical. Same thing for the "One Scenario" article, which received 16 comments. All of these comments include those from a particular profane and emotional Sprint defender, who has had at least one offensive and vulgar comment deleted at my request.
The day that Undoing was posted on Seeking Alpha, Contributing Editor Gary Kim, of TMCnet.com, picked up on my piece, wrote an article on it, titled, "Could Nextel be Spun Off?" and referred to my post. Thank you, Gary.
If you go to Yahoo Finance and get a quote for Sprint, you will see the "Undoing" Seeking Alpha article in the blog section.
Also, on Yahoo message boards, someone pasted my "One Scenario" article there, to which a thoughtful poster commented the following (edited for space):
I'm sorry but Ed Ketchoyian needs to take off the rose colored glass and put down the pipe. His basis and conclusions are all over the place and just simply incorrect. Anyone with half a brain and that knows anything about the wireless industry can pick this "article" apart. SN will not spin off iDEN. SN will not spin off WiMax (they will gain outside investment). SN will not be bought by VZ, regardless of voice 4G path. Sometimes Seeking Alpha articles need to be taken with a huge dose of salt.
My pipe has been unused for several years.
The articles were also picked up by FinanceMart,CNBC.com, Wikio News, and a site that indexes blogs based on some key words. In this case, the word "abscess" was picked up and the "One Scenario" article was listed with a bunch of medical articles describing the different kinds of abscesses you can develop on your body.
"Undoing" also somehow got listed on Social Picks.
Clearly, many of these sites pick up the feed from Seeking Alpha.
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