One of the most interesting web-based resources is www.seekingalpha.com (alpha is a piece of financial jargon that refers to the ability to outperform a chosen target or benchmark). In its own words, this site "represents a new approach to providing financial news and analysis to investors that leverages the phenomenal growth of blogs". Essentially, this site filters the financial blogosphere for what it considers to be the best bits. SeekingAlpha edits and selects from 60 contributors to provide more "thorough and timely coverage of stocks and sectors than has previously been available in online financial journalism". Inevitably, the coverage is relevant almost exclusively to the US market, but there is analysis of China, India and Japan buried within the site. And much else besides.