Article: RANKING THE BLOGS; Editors give `The Big Picture' first-place honors in competition for Internet's best financial postings.(Best Blogs)

Byline: Drew Carter

Barry Ritholtz hit it big as a blogger when he reported an associate's account of being in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. A week and 50,000 page views later, Mr. Ritholtz' eyes had been opened.

"I came away with a sense that you can publish directly to the investing public,'' he said in a recent telephone interview. That blog, which he casually published for clients and co-workers, showed him what blogs could do: get news out fast and immediately receive comments in response. "It kind of took off,'' he said.

Now Mr. Ritholtz publishes "The Big Picture'' (http://bigpicture.typepad.com/), a blog on economics, trading and digital media read ...

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