About a year ago, the team at BloggingStocks started seeing articles and blog entries around the financial world start to creep up. Why? Because one year ago today, BloggingStocks went live to the world with the intent to bring a human and unfiltered face to commentary and facts reporting on a stable of eight stocks. To this point, that stable has grown tremendously, and BloggingStocks sits right up there with the most popular financial portals on the planet. Not bad for a one year-old infant.

• AOL Blog Experiment
• BusinessWeek Coverage
• Micro Persuasion likes us
• WebProNews gives us a mention
• CNN gives us up

In the last year, we've seen quite a bit happen on the financial landscape:

• Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) continues its dominance in web advertising (and $$ income) over Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
  
• Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has one scandal after another while U.S. same-store sales tank
• The DJIA moves above 13,000 (and stays there) for the first time in history
• Toyota (NYSE:TM) tops General Motors (NYSE:GM) in 2007 as world's largest seller of automobiles

There have been many other top-flight financial stories from the last year we've been here, and those above are just a few personal favorites. While I rarely make bold predictions for stocks, you can rest assured that the team here at BloggingStocks follows and obsessively tracks the entire financial landscape every trading day. Why? To give our readers the most informative and varied, colorful commentary we possibly can. No PR spin here -- it's unvarnished opinion. That's what makes financial blogging so unique (and blogging in general). There's no red tape here, so you get access to the relentless gunk floating around inside our collective brains.

Here's hoping to another productive year providing you -- our readers -- with the most entertaining and relevant content we can give. We hope you'll continue to join us for the ride.