Carnival of the Capitalists

August 13 CotC at Spooky Action, and More

Spooky Action presents the August 13 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Next week’s host will be Revenue River.

For the rest, I am just going to quote the e-mail I sent to the mailing list where I announce CotC is up and any other news or requests for feedback:

Good news! We now have hosts lined up all the way through the October 15 edition. October 8 will be the first week of our fifth year, amazingly, and we are the longest running blog carnival that has never missed a week and never reverted to being hosted the same place each week (by definition no longer really a carnival). Go us!

Next week’s edition announcement could get interesting, if not in an “oh God, oh God, we’re all gonna die” sort of way (that would be our cars). We are due to have a C-section on the 20th to deliver the third and final baby. For those who don’t know the story, I started blogging in February 2003, and Deb started not long after. We met through our blogs and the relationship actually fired up almost concurrently with the start of CotC. I flew out to California Christmas night in 2003, we got married January 2, 2004 in Vegas, and then I flew back at the end of January and we drove across the country with Deb’s stuff, moving her from California to Massachusetts. Since then there have been two kids, another pending, multiple new blogs, loss of readers and status (I peaked in the top 100 in the blogosphere Ecosystem, once upon a time), recent loss of the large client that was the only real reason for being for the business I’d been part of for several years, and through it all there has always been Carnival of the Capitalists as a constant. I may weary of it at times, and wonder what I do it for, but it’s kind of cool, having it always there, more or less the same as when it was an audacious, untried concept.

But I digress.

If for some reason I don’t get around to announcing or putting a link up to next week’s edition, just have a look at http://revenueriver.com/ for it when the appropriate timeframe comes.

When you’re done checking out this week’s edition, if you missed it, Rob has a new site called MBA by Blog, at http://www.mba-by-blog.com/, which is for the best posts by business topic ever, collected together on the idea one can get quite an education by reading them. Check it out! You are welcome to suggest posts for inclusion in it.

Finally, Deb has been making some cool stuff for sale at http://neatlytangled.etsy.com/ and it only seems right to take the opportunity to point it out to more people. She does custom orders, too. Obviously this will all be on hold next week.

I added some links to the above, given the differences in post versus e-mail formats. Otherwise it’s verbatim.

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