Carnival of the Capitalists

Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-01-26

• #cotc 1/19/09 Edition of CotC is up at http://bizosphere.com/?p=151, tweets newer than this will go on next week. #
• Submissions to @CotC via Twitter or e-mail thecotc@gmail.com, or via Blog Carnival. #
• Topics: Anything business & economics. Submissions won’t be included automatically. Looking for good stuff as much as possible. #
• Topics: Maybe not so much with the personal finance and cheesier how to advice, but there is overlap. #
• Twitter Tools is buggy such that when I tell it to post is ignored. It creates the post, but I have to publish manually, so time varies. #
• Bail yourself out in 2009: http://tinyurl.com/8klhjj #
• Don’t forget your testicles: http://tinyurl.com/996j4p #
• How blogging can help start a business: http://tinyurl.com/7vy2wv #
• Info on filing 1st tax return as sole proprietorship: http://tinyurl.com/86dnnv #
• End of banking as we know it (gee, ya think?): http://tinyurl.com/8lbs7t #
• Hoover, Bush… different? http://volokh.com/posts/1232335004.shtml #
• Small toymaker reprieve? http://tinyurl.com/8nkulz #
• Stupidity as an externality: http://tinyurl.com/8yy9vm #
• Small biz Twitter list: http://tinyurl.com/8kmvdq #
• Brain most useful recession fighter: http://tinyurl.com/ce5my2 #
• Timely entrepreneur recession tips: http://tinyurl.com/86lpyr #
• Sell emotion not logic: http://coffee4closers.net/?p=69 (Can hear Spock say “fascinating” as I type this.) #
• Marijuana to economy’s rescue? http://tinyurl.com/aw3dq4 #
• Timeless earnings maximizing moves: http://tinyurl.com/dco94q #
• Lending clubs rule, credit cards drool: http://tinyurl.com/cgwxk8 #
• Unique trials of Tribune bankruptcy: http://tinyurl.com/bzne3j #
• Forehead Reaganomics: http://tinyurl.com/dzoelu #
• Hooray for creative destruction: http://tinyurl.com/bckpe6 #
• Online barter economy (indeed, money resolved info problem): http://tinyurl.com/ah4mle #
• Using controversy in marketing: http://tinyurl.com/abbaom #
• Economists completely clueless? http://tinyurl.com/aqqv4n #
• Toll Bros 3.99% mortgage implications: http://tinyurl.com/b7pm6h #
• Go into biz during recession? http://tinyurl.com/aqe5t4 #
• Scariest if not most surprising chart ever: http://tinyurl.com/ct5rzt #
• Who will bail out the Fed? That’s what I’ve been wondering… http://tinyurl.com/cv8gqr #
• I’m going to call that it for this week’s edition of CotC. Stay tuned for the Groundhog Day edition at http://bizosphere.com/ next week. #
• Or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted during the week. #

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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-01-19

• #cotc 1/12/09 Edition of CotC is up at http://bizosphere.com/?p=150 and tweets newer than this will be for next week’s edition. #
• Submissions to @CotC via Twitter or e-mail thecotc@gmail.com. #
• Topics: Anything business & economics. Submissions won’t be included automatically. Looking for good stuff as much as possible. #
• 2009 Microbusiness trends: http://tinyurl.com/76nboy #
• Outliers book review http://tinyurl.com/9qlxwg #
• Indispensable Jobs? http://tinyurl.com/9c62wb #
• Recession in Perspective: How bad really? http://tinyurl.com/8c4y5a #
• I expect small home biz to become even more common… http://tinyurl.com/944qo5 #
• Bad market, $ where? http://tinyurl.com/9gs847 #
• Myth of unregulated global capitalism http://tinyurl.com/8jamdx #
• Arbitrage & social tools http://tinyurl.com/8ug7ml #
• Positioning for unfair selling advantage http://tinyurl.com/7f7byv #
• Black swans & index funds http://tinyurl.com/a26dfq #
• To those following on Twitter, pardon the tweet dump. Been busy/hectic. #
• That will have to do for this edition. I need sleep. Stay tuned for next week. #

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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-01-12

• Setting up Twitter Tools on Bizosphere to test usage for reintroducing CotC as Twittercentric rather than same old blog carnival thing. #
• Carnival of the Capitalists relaunch post: http://bizosphere.com/?p=149 #
• Submissions to @CotC via Twitter or e-mail thecotc@gmail.com. #
• Topics: Anything business & economics. Submissions won’t be included automatically. Looking for good stuff as much as possible. #
• Hash tags? Wasn’t planning to use #cotc but feel free on submissions if space. Seeing some people use #tcot tag helped spark this relaunch. #
• Atlas comes alive: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html #
• “Inside Drucker’s Brain by Jeffrey Kremes - Book review” Examines fine summary of Drucker’s best ideas. http://bit.ly/vRyr #
• Who was America’s greatest depression fighter? http://tinyurl.com/a4lxdx #
• Auto plant escapee http://www.karendecoster.com/blog/archives/003256.html #
• Death of a heritage http://tinyurl.com/8gbbu4 #
• Deer in headlights marketing http://tinyurl.com/92ba53 #
• It’s twilight time for VC: http://tinyurl.com/8gk22x #
• Falling prices as antidote, not deflation: http://tinyurl.com/7rhmvx #
• Unemployment not what it once was: http://tinyurl.com/8catd8 #
• Scamming TV conversion program? http://tinyurl.com/84o54r #
• Protect yourself from economic crisis: http://tinyurl.com/7n6hqp #
• Economic cycle in graphs: http://tinyurl.com/94usfq #
• Handling truly insane customer: http://tinyurl.com/8b5lwr #
• I’m calling that a wrap for this 1st relaunch edition of Carnival of the Capitalists. If it works right this will be 2nd/3rd to last bullet. #
• If you missed it, relaunch post: http://bizosphere.com/?p=149. Submit via Twitter or e-mail. Read here or at http://twitter.com/CotC. #
• Next edition will accumulate day to day on Twitter and appear in full at http://bizosphere.com same time next Monday, January 19, 2009. #

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CotC Relaunch!

Carnival of the Capitalists went on hiatus almost a year ago, and I had not really expected it to return, much as I often missed it. What a year to skip, too, on the topics of business and economics.

I’ve discussed restarting it, here and elsewhere, perhaps with a different official headquarters, but had not pursued it. Then I had an idea that reinvents it and enforces brevity in the time I devote to it.

I have been using Twitter heavily, substantially overlapping what I might otherwise emit via blogging, while going beyond it. Long ago I started a Twitter account for CotC, which mostly lay fallow as did CotC itself.

So… Each entry in a weekly edition of Carnival of the Capitalists will be a tweet in CotC on Twitter. A digest of those will publish here weekly via Twitter Tools, so you may see the collection as a single post at one time. You may also follow CotC from your Twitter account to see the component link entries as they happen, or you may check the CotC Twitter page to peruse them.

I figure a description and automatically shortened URL should not need more than 140 characters. Keeping it there, I can’t be verbose and the carnival won’t be an outrageous time sink. If I want to write longer posts aside from CotC, that’s my problem. I’d like to think you’ll see some appear here, once I get back into the groove.

And entering? You may e-mail the traditional way, thecotc@gmail.com, but you may also direct an @ reply on Twitter to @CotC followed by your link and an associated text. If you enter via Blog Carnival, it goes to the e-mail address, and you may find that convenient.

Topics? Haven’t changed. I would love to see a bit more on the philosophical side, and I expect entries to swirl around recent and current financial, economic and business events. This is the business and economics carnival. That’s a huge range. In general, all the old information on this site is obsolete or superceded, but relevant topics remain so.

You don’t have to be the author to submit. Blog posts are preferred, but especially good mainstream articles will be considered. Substantive and original are still preferred, but exceptions are not out of the question.

Submissions will not automatically be included, or included in the week that by rights they ought to have been in.

The weekly CotC post should publish Monday morning, automatically, ready or not, with whatever I have gotten into tweets during the week. The first will be Monday, January 12, 2009, and will be largely experimental, a beta if you will, since I have not tested the weekly digest function yet, and am a bit late announcing this.

Will it fly? I’d like to think it’s a good time for this sort of thing, done in a way that breaks with the past. I’d like to think that adding Twitter to the mix will expand the audience and generate some excitement.

Here goes…

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