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It’s Dead Jim

Duh. Carnival of the Capitalists is dead as originally known. It’s dead in all its other forms, including moved to something I do with little or no input to create weekly posts with sets of links.

Heck, the entire concept of blog carnivals is effectively dead. The world has changed.

Yet here I am, with this site, name recognition, a boatload of links I run across and in some cases bookmark to be posted… eventually… and a plan all along to make it generate a few bucks if it could.

The entire CotC thing is an awkward one for me, in that I was originally known for it under my nom de blog, yet I have associated it with my real name in various ways and for various reasons, right down to mentioning it on some versions of my resume. Which may have caused me trouble, last time I interviewed.

At any rate, I have a plan. A casual plan. No fanfare.

It is an utterly fascinating time for business and economics, however dystopian. I read stuff all the time. Some of the links are in same old places, or are found through original linkers with far more traffic than I’ll ever enjoy. That doesn’t mean I can’t note them, if only for my own satisfaction. If I have much more than a link to say, I may elaborate elsewhere, but here’s the deal:

I shall endeavor to post links regularly, with limited comment, to content that passes for business and economics in nature, and I shall call that, call this site, Carnival of the Capitalists. I won’t seek but don’t object to submissions. It will double as the historical repository of CotC as it was, and if I get into it enough, into blogging and writing as What I Do For A Living enough, I may revisit some of that as fodder here or there.

Here goes…

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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-06-01

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Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-05-18

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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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Friday, January 9th, 2009 Administrivia, Blogging, Business, CotC, Economics 4 Comments

Five Years On

If you haven’t already, you should read Rob May’s post on How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me.

We both began blogging just shy of five years ago, and some of his observations are also my own.

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