Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-29
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/22/09: http://bit.ly/4TNDW #
- Circumstances dictate skipping CotC this week and trying for a deluxe edition next week. #
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-22
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/15/09: http://bit.ly/r4Kvq #
- He’s just not that available-time to you: http://bit.ly/lJOXT
Great point! # - Myth of financial deregulation: http://reason.com/news/show/134238.html #
- Lessons when a company grows: http://bit.ly/zvFec #
- Young entrepreneur myth: http://bit.ly/QdRqs #
- Review: “Being Strategic Plan for Success Out-Think Your Competitors Stay Ahead of Change” by Erika Andersen http://bit.ly/49JSE #
- The Great Recession around the world: http://bit.ly/109wdT #
- Bailout math: http://bit.ly/9MoMp #
- The Minimum Wage Mistake: http://bit.ly/STDJe #
- Tighter credit new norm? http://bit.ly/99pBL #
- Twitter great for business? http://bit.ly/9Fzb4 #
- If I get home in time and there’s more, I’ll add, but otherwise this’ll mark the end of this week’s CotC entries. #
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-15
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/8/09: http://bit.ly/JB6d6 #
- Say’s Revenge: http://bit.ly/tPxLG
(One of the best economics posts ever seen here. Read!) # - Ally Bank: http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=4435 #
- Crap marketing = opportunity: http://bit.ly/1LxZH #
- Biz lessons of NBA playoffs: http://bit.ly/2C3jY #
- Comparison of incorporation options: http://bit.ly/F3L8t #
- Taking on too much: http://bit.ly/1723Ic
(Highly personal selection even if OT.) # - That’s it for this extremely short edition. The move has still not settled out, so here’s hoping next week Twitter Tools digests the correct tweets, and only those.
- Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://thecotc.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted.
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-08
Pardon the delay. Twitter Tools refused to create a post as instructed and scheduled, so after giving it time to be sure it wasn’t merely late, I created one in similar format manually. I hope things are more normal next week.
Pardon the Mess
I just imported the contents of Bizosphere to get what would be relevant as historical announcements and CotC editions cross-posted here.
That means there’s a bunch of extraneous stuff I am working on deleting, and will probably not be able to finish deleting immediately.
That also means it imported the pages. Hadn’t thought of that. I was going to create new ones from scratch, copying as needed. That will have to be fixed.
Creative Construction
Once again, change comes to Carnival of the Capitalists. Not to address the entire history or what this place is about in this post, if you’re new to it, but to note that this is a new location, which was also a previous location, but in the previous form it was merely the info site, and in the new form it will be the location of, picking up from Bizosphere, which has been both, and haltingly a business blog in its own right. Um… you got that?
No? Okay then…
When CotC started, it being the first niche/topic-specific “carnival” - meaning generated mainly from post author submissions, as opposed to being generated entirely by someone creating a link roundup - based on the original Carnival of the Vanities, one of my innovations was to have a dedicated web page with information and a list of hosts. There is still a page in that location, still one of the top search hits for Carnival of the Capitalists, and maintained as a source of redirection.
Eventually I thought it might be easier to maintain as a blog, and ended up with one in pMachine at thecotc.com. That was mainly for info and to announce when each edition came out, as they were hosted here, there and everywhere in what I consider true blog carnival fashion.
I came up with the domain idea Bizosphere.com, intending it to be far more than a mere home of CotC, but using it as such because it sounded cooler, easily brought me into WordPress for everything, and resulted in automatic boost for the rest of the content that was to be there. TheCotC.com was actually supposed to expire, but the registrar had it on autorenew and it got past me, to my utterly broke dismay.
Eventually people to host became harder to find, and I tried a change to hosting every edition at Bizosphere. That was a lot of work, depending whether I had a guest do the actual post for me. We were in a position where something that was several hours a week distraction from other things was a negative, even if I loved it, and it wasn’t clear the public interest was there or, frankly, that there would ever be payoff to take it all beyond a labor of love, source of minor internet fame, and prospective career (or career change) credential. I bowed to pressure and reasoning, real or imagined, and suspended CotC entirely.
Then came Twitter.
I’ve been known for verbosity, and my writing of descriptions for CotC entries was, while often a thing of beauty, no exception, and thus part of the time sink problem. There was also the work of compiling it into a post overall, which tended to be done last minute.
That wasn’t in a vacuum. I’d always regretted letting that interest amd others fall by the wayside. Some people were fans of CotC and did want it to continue/return. I was encouraged by Scott Allen’s interest in hosting it with my help on an ongoing basis at his now former About.com site.
The breakthrough idea was to use a CotC Twitter account, long established but little used. That would enforce concise posting of entries - too concise, perhaps - and enable a weekly post to be compiled automatically. People could click through to the links on Twitter, or could come to the carnival digest of those tweets. There might be other options available in the future, should I want to explore what could be done fueled by Twitter.
That meant giving up on having a blog carnival by the definition I was instrumental in creating, creating instead a similar beast built on an established if fallow brand name. It would no longer travel, or even have guest editors in-place. It would, I decided, no longer be rigidly for blog posts or limited to one per blog. “Of great interest” might be enough, rather than merely going for substantively original quality writing. And there would be neither the extensive blurb “hooks” to get people to go to the link, nor always an unambiguous link making clear the target, since either I or Twitter would usually use a URL shortening tool.
Would it fly? Eh, it’s not lit the internet on fire, but everyone is now onto business and economics, considering the times.
Would it fulfill the promise of keeping my time devoted to it modest? Yes!
Since it does that, and it is content, and a blog with content can generate a trickle of money, that means it stays indefinitely. I’ve not made a big push to improve the quality and number of submissions, and have relied heavily on my own discoveries, but we’ll see what happens after a grand, or even not so grand, reopening here.
There were two things that led me to move CotC-proper to its own domain. One is that Bizosphere is about tapped for revenue it might produce, short of becoming more prominent and well-trafficked, and that revenue is in my pending ex-wife’s name, which may also change, but even if it does, building for the future seems logical. The other is that I find myself itching to write further commentary on some of what goes into CotC, but that seems awkward or inappropriate to me, so I’ve resisted. Time considerations aside.
Thus I will try to do what I failed to before, use Bizosphere for meatier posts, using the fact I am back on CotC to provide inspiration.
I’ll finish by giving myself a to do list:
After that it’s the routine stuff.
PS - I’m using my real name on new and some existing blogs, for the most part, in keeping with everything changing in my life and leaving old associations behind.
Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-01
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/25/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=174 #
- Either this or more likely next edition will mark the official start of http://thecotc.com being home of Carnival of the Capitalists. #
- While http://bizosphere.com retains archival editions and becomes home of longer posts on selected entries and other biz/econ/money topics. #
- The road to Zimbabwe: http://bit.ly/13ZVlw #
- Boom time for survival biz: http://bit.ly/11M3Oa #
- Imperative biz plan number: http://bit.ly/jFkJH #
- Review: “Accidental Genius Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing” by Mark Levy @LevyInnovation http://bit.ly/uc06J #
- Is your business just a job? http://snipr.com/j0v58 #
- Yawn Money & Finite Lives: http://bit.ly/k73ui
(sorta OT but provoked thought) # - Effective workplaces: http://bit.ly/144viR #
- How David beat Goliath in airline wifi: http://bit.ly/tvgkB #
- The Chrysler Trabant and GM Wartburg: http://www.conunderground.com/?p=1953 #
- Stagnation better than V recovery? http://www.geekmba360.com/?p=726 #
- Riskiest ETFs on Earth: http://bit.ly/TouMx #
- Think positive: http://bit.ly/fDXD7
(Sorta OT but struck a chord with me) # - Thoughts on what are good/bad eBay business uses: http://bit.ly/fsNhV #
- 12 Most Unfortunate Product Names: http://www.oddee.com/item_96682.aspx #
- That wraps up a modest edition of CotC. Hope you found something worthwhile. #
- Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://bizosphere.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted. #
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-05-25
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/18/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=173 #
- Ready for the 81% Tax Increase? http://bit.ly/DPb0r #
- Double Dip: http://bit.ly/2lETfo #
- Cool Startup Story: http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/7143.html #
- Screwing Bond Holders is Job One: http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/7142.html #
- Essential Twitter Tools for Business: http://bit.ly/sdqbP #
- Entrepreneurs are Risk Averse: http://bit.ly/rslLE #
- Don’t Work for Free: http://bit.ly/1aDjTx #
- I’ll Take Picks and Shovels: http://andyswan.com/blog/?p=202 #
- Real Estate Bubble Won’t Reinflate (Duh): http://bit.ly/oj3qD #
- Economic Backpacking: http://bit.ly/C34nF #
- The Age of Debt: http://reason.com/news/show/133217.html #
- Sarbox Unconstitutional? http://bit.ly/egB07 (Not that it generally matters to the feds if stuff they want is constitutional…) #
- Obsessive Housing Disorder: http://bit.ly/38vFa #
- Good CEO Characteristics: http://theglitteringeye.com/?p=6963 #
- Necco Sweet in Sour Economy: http://wbztv.com/local/necco.wafers.Richard.2.1013132.html #
- Credit Card Companies Screwed: http://bit.ly/1555JO #
- MACD Divergence in Forex: http://bit.ly/4wgduO #
- eBay Analysis: http://bit.ly/1jr4r #
- Economic Allegory: http://bit.ly/htHgT #
- Embed sales tax in price? http://bit.ly/t3zqP #
- Sale Weakness: http://bit.ly/UNE3P #
- Improve Home Office: http://bit.ly/xx4F7 #
- Beware Baboon Boss: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hbreditors/2009/05/baboons.html #
- 7 Ages of a Business: http://bit.ly/18UdA #
- Bull-Bear Rumble: http://bit.ly/12LiPF #
- NH Retail Radius: http://bit.ly/eQ1FF #
- Real People, Not Spokespeople: http://bit.ly/zKGWB #
- Capitalism at Work? http://bit.ly/DvENM #
- Marketing to Customer Networks: http://bit.ly/UqetT #
- Bygone Era: http://bit.ly/Z3cb8 #
- Whither Empty Dealerships (up to the owners, no?): http://bit.ly/1alns2 #
- OT but I can sure relate to the health/money & love life aspect: http://jackschmidt.bravejournal.com/entry/32619 #
- Bum Marketing: http://bit.ly/KmLNi #
- If you build it, they won’t come: http://bit.ly/hb38g #
- Perfect Pitch: http://bit.ly/WVnGp #
- That’s it for this week’s entries.
- Still looking for work, tech, maybe management, even blog-related. Resume PDF at http://bit.ly/5GxHh or LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/L8rkw. Goal is to move out to my own place circa September. That requires more income to be viable and pay child support or afford custody myself. Thus more frequent mentions.
- Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://bizosphere.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted.#
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-05-18
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/11/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=171 #
- Names Matter: http://bit.ly/fWDfp #
- Antitrust vs rule of Law: http://blog.mises.org/archives/009929.asp #
- Microbusiness tax priorities: http://bit.ly/4gnyO #
- Starting over as entrepreneur: http://bit.ly/6iCSz #
- From Twitter to Serious Business: http://bit.ly/2plij #
- Stamp Gouging: http://bit.ly/HWyYP #
- Carnival of Money Stories Returns: http://bit.ly/aMBEf #
- Galting the Deficit: http://bit.ly/12djAi #
- Terrible Auction: http://bit.ly/f2CcJ #
- Dynamic Sales Letters: http://bit.ly/A8Ed9 #
- Balancing Marriage & Business: http://bit.ly/L0lCI #
- Congenitally Entrepreneurial: http://bit.ly/12bFE5
(Not surprised, given me & my father.) # - Ignore Sunk Costs: http://bit.ly/Kti2k
(Harry Browne called it previous investment trap.) # - A Second Life for LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/tWy4s #
- Capitalism Works! http://www.daxmontana.net/?p=2140 #
- The Audacity of Tax: http://bit.ly/FdskC #
- What if there’s an imposter? http://bit.ly/wiH6K #
- Chrysler Zombie: http://bit.ly/1Rdw4U #
- Stock Market Rally? http://bit.ly/uLI9d #
- Too-Rigid Contracts Destroy Trust: http://bit.ly/JpCn6 #
- And Away Goes Tax Money Down the Drain: http://bit.ly/w88Ht #
- Seeing “Rule of Law” a lot lately: http://bit.ly/Vi4mv Why stop at Chrysler? #
- Barter Country: http://www.reason.com/news/show/133215.html (Thinking I should try it, as I contemplate post-marital move to my own place.) #
- Finding Atlas: http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/may/04/00026/ #
- The Meaning of Chrysler: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023548.php #
- Federal Aid Über Alles: http://bit.ly/O5r5C #
- Europeans Punish Success: http://bit.ly/rNWvv #
- Economic Necessity of Outsourcing: http://bit.ly/kWcFG #
- Build Team, Don’t Hire Employees: http://bit.ly/LxFEk #
- Future Shock: http://bit.ly/NPmX0 #
- Improve Business Meetings: http://bit.ly/VUdUC
Good tips! # - Presenting an Effective Speech: http://bit.ly/10Tc5R
(Sorta OT but…) # - 100 Business Blogs: http://bit.ly/XeomE
(Sorta outside the norm for CotC but you might like the list.) # - Don’t Go With The Flow: http://bit.ly/l6aSN #
- Government Lies About Markets: http://mises.org/story/3446 #
- Craptastic: http://bit.ly/bg7o9 #
- Antitrust Eyes on Google: http://bit.ly/Mkzxe #
- Press Release Mistakes: http://bit.ly/AkI9V #
- Sweet Dreams: http://bit.ly/179eyH #
- How Antitrust Ruined Movies: http://mises.org/story/3437 #
- Caracas on the Potomac: http://bit.ly/WWalD #
- Some ETFs will cost you: http://bit.ly/Idbw4 #
- 18 Wheelers as economic indicator: http://bit.ly/pWqK #
- Tincture of Lawlessness: http://bit.ly/QHQV3 #
- Monetizing Twitter: http://bit.ly/ZM59A #
- Unsustainable Debt: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/78619/ #
- Book review of “In Pursuit of Elegance: Why The Best Ideas Have Something Missing.” by @matthewemay http://bit.ly/12NdRV #
- Dismantling Capitalism: http://bit.ly/e0nWK #
- More Dismantling: http://bit.ly/NQVkz #
- Verdict on the Crash: http://bit.ly/x17oX #
- Advanta Freeze: http://bit.ly/16lBxc #
- Goldman Housing Fine? http://bit.ly/11Egig #
- Value Promise: http://bit.ly/SBKxP #
- Branding is Fluff? http://bit.ly/YJwAy #
- Cautionary Flower Girl Tale: http://bit.ly/ogL9w #
- Do What Others Won’t: http://bit.ly/15LaYM #
- College is for Suckers: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=18879 (I believe huge changes are in store, or should be, related to this.) #
- Inflation on Horizon: http://www.muditajournal.com/archives/596.php #
- Financial Meltdown Anniversary: http://bit.ly/Jy0yR #
- 100 Amazingly Creative Business Cards: http://bit.ly/MAuEK #
- What’s better than mild inflation? http://bit.ly/DSWaY #
- Saving Free Enterprise: http://bit.ly/wusxJ #
- Where the Jobs Are, Low Taxes Wait for You: http://bit.ly/14sz0l #
- Don’t Know Much About Capitalism (less about key economists): http://bit.ly/RwM3W #
- Signs and Portents: http://bit.ly/WQpMN #
- That’s enough for the week. It’s so much I fear the benefit of a gathering of links will be diluted. #
- Still looking for work, tech, maybe management, even blog-related. Resume PDF at http://bit.ly/5GxHh or LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/L8rkw. #
- Goal is to move out to my own place in 2 mos. That requires more income to be viable and pay child support. Thus more frequent mentions. #
- Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://bizosphere.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted. #
- One more announcement! I will probably bring back thecotc.com as the place for CotC in this form, using Bizosphere for other posts. #
- Stay tuned for more as and presumably when I roll that out. #
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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-05-11
- #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/4/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=170 #
- Career Speeding then Braking sounds familiar: http://bit.ly/ypZ1c #
- How David Beats Goliath: http://bit.ly/Tsoor #
- Cure for Social Midea Brandjacking: http://bit.ly/hFzIs #
- Agribiz Priming Pandemic Pump? http://bit.ly/YELkJ #
- Who needs rule of law? http://bit.ly/Z0y3u #
- Advice to future entrepreneur: http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/008910.html #
- Competition in M&A Deals: http://bit.ly/gfTy #
- Rivers Corbett: http://bit.ly/TTsnE #
- The George Whiteside Rules for Biotech Entrepreneurs. Genzyme co-founder reflects at Harvard Business School. http://bit.ly/8uKME #
- In the reign without a TARP: http://www.finemrespice.com/node/56 #
- Your Yard Sale is Illegal: http://reason.com/blog/show/133378.html #
- 10 Top Online Applications: http://bit.ly/Ly3q5 #
- Independent Biz Blogs roundup: http://bit.ly/NcAYo #
- The Choice: http://www.execupundit.com/2009/05/choice.html #
- Call for Bankruptcy Reform: http://bit.ly/ch15j #
- Forced economy: http://bit.ly/txF2r #
- TradeKing Review: http://bit.ly/ehnle #
- Compounding lesson: http://bit.ly/6CrSW #
- Regulation for the regulated: http://bit.ly/wP7Sp #
- Low growth Trek: http://bit.ly/12myKj #
- Risk-Return Cluelessness: http://bit.ly/VV32o #
- Chavez, Obama… Comparable? http://www.poliblogger.com/?p=15749 #
- SEC not merely spoiled, but rancid: http://bit.ly/42ko7 #
- Stress Test: http://bit.ly/kX243 #
- Building from a new base: http://bit.ly/FYZEu #
- Business Still Doesn’t Get It: http://bit.ly/17QzUN #
- Fun biz idea! http://bit.ly/eHb01 #
- Leaders vs Managers Nonsense: http://bit.ly/ZAzHi #
- Lead Generation: http://bit.ly/4NBhQ #
- Democracy & Industrialization: http://bit.ly/hvcm3 #
- Friends, Family, MLM: http://the-new-economy.com/?p=28 #
- Ocean Spray into blueberries: http://bit.ly/Zdzlt #
- And Thus Ended Capitalism: http://bit.ly/Rpp7t #
- Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://bizosphere.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted. #
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