We're actually pivoting away from the social news aspect of financial news, however. Instead we're focusing on automated tagging and indexing of financial news articles. It's a tough problem, but it's really pretty interesting, and I think that there's a potential for a huge upside.
If you click on the "discuss" page, you can see a little bit of the automated tagging that we're doing.
and add a way to search industry/geography.
You really need some 'life' if you expect to keep this going, just launching something is not enough.
You could probably write whole books about how to bootstrap a community. It's a pity nickb could not be bothered to pass newmogul.com off to others to keep it alive, it already had the hardest problem (initial audience) solved.
And any new launch of something like that will make it harder for the next to be taken seriously.
Maybe all you guys should pool or something instead of everybody running their own 1 user domain?
The phone number in the newmogul.com registration is answered by someone that says there is no 'nick' there.
What's the proper etiquette for signing off from a website anyway? Is there some kind of moral obligation to announce your departure? I'm sure plenty of people leave HN daily (and plenty arrive), surely if everybody would say 'bye' every time they leave it would get pretty messy.
But for long time contributors it might make sense, or at least an update in your profile or so...