Carnival of the Capitalists

Carnival of the Capitalists for 2009-04-27

• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 4/20/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=167 #
• Not a post/article, but ExecTweets seems interesting: http://www.exectweets.com/ #
• Isn’t it always fun to blame Spitzer? http://tinyurl.com/dkw3wp #
• Party like it’s 1934: http://tinyurl.com/c8crw2 #
• Handling resume overload: http://blogs.bnet.com/bnet1/?p=1671 #
• Bandwidth Malthusians: http://tinyurl.com/chpla8 (Malthus lied, people thrived…) #
• 100 Free Useful Biz Courses/Lectures: http://tinyurl.com/cszy4u #
• Rob Sama Grand Plan - Taxation (Long, Cool): http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=4237 #
• Brief Atlas Shrugged review w/spoilers: http://andstillipersist.com/2009/04/atlas-shrugged-a-brief-review-wspoilers/ #
• Why is Venture Capital Under Assault? http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=325207949387991 #
• Pirate Bay http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2009/04/a-primer-on-pirate-bay-the-conviction-file-sharing-and-torrents.html #
• Review “Talent Is Overrated What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” - Geoff Colvin http://bit.ly/fzyoV #
• The Box: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/04/the-box.html #
• Death of the General: http://bit.ly/ziOxM #
• Less expensive yet more effective leadership development: http://bit.ly/9lu44 #
• Branding and Twitter: http://www.vipvirtualsolutions.com.au/2009/04/what-does-your-brand-say-about-you.html #
• Is Citigroup Vikram Pandit’s Job Safe? http://banksavingsreview.com/is-citigroup-vikram-pandits-job-safe/ #
• Rearranging bank deck chairs: http://wenchwisdom.blogspot.com/2009/04/using-our-own-money-against-us-part-4.html #
• Brain Map for executive time: http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/04/brain-map-executive-time.html #
• The Walmart Question: http://blog.mises.org/archives/009846.asp #
• Bank lending games? http://everydayfinance.blogspot.com/2009/04/refi-rates-low-but-banks-arent-lending.html #
• How to invest in Cuba: http://www.darwinsfinance.com/how-to-invest-in-cuba-does-obamas-cuba-deal-spell-gains/ #
• Risk Management: http://www.iqi-sm.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/23/strategy/how-to-develop-an-effective-business-risk-management-strategy/ #
• Understanding PPIP: http://wallandmain.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/understanding-the-ppip/ #
• Rob Sama Grand Plan on Housing: http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=4304 #
• Going Postal: http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=614 #
• That concludes 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. #
• 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 2009-04-06

• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 3/30/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=164 #
• Things to avoid in business plan: http://www.webatsimon.com/2009/03/things-to-avoid-when-preparing-a-business-plan.html #
• Warren’s First Ever Investment Advice: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/03/my-first-ever-investment-advice.html #
• Are you shovel ready? http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2009/04/01/are-you-shovel-ready-5-tips-for-increasing-your-online-business-right-now/ #
• Tipping Point, where GDP=Debt: http://www.qando.net/?p=1847 #
• A Dangerous Trend? http://super-gas-saver.com/Save-Gas-Blog/2009/03/obama-forces-out-waggoner-at-gm-a-dangerous-trend-in-american-business/ #
• Comparing StockTwits vs Twiticker: http://bankling.com/2009/day-trader-tweets-stocktwits-vs-twiticker/ #
• Stupidity: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/economy/01leonhardt.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=David%20Leonhardt&st=Search #
• Surprised, knowing volume is fine locally: http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2009/03/30/daily52.html #
• Review of “The Expert’s Edge: Become the Go-to Authority People Turn to Every Time” by Ken Lizotte http://bit.ly/4d7cK0 #
• Mark to Market, but what of Intangibles? http://bit.ly/3TIgk0 #
• Great entry! The Planning Fairy: http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2009/03/30/the-planning-fairy.aspx #
• Most individual investors are poor portfolio managers: http://bit.ly/bHXmn #
• Four banks give back TARP http://banksavingsreview.com/four-banks-give-back-tarp-already/ #
• New SBA chief says the right thing: http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/04/new-chief-of-the-sba-says-the-right-thing.html #
• Feel like I missed stuff, but late, kids, need to call it a week and maybe get more next time. #
• 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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Side note:
I’ve updated my resume (subject to ongoing change) and am still looking for work, more so now as my personal circumstances have changed. While I would prefer to remain within commuting distance of Middleboro, Massachusetts, I am slightly more open to sufficiently lucrative and interesting possibilities out of my area, as well as remaining open to some degree of working from home.

The resume doesn’t reflect Carnival of the Capitalists or blogging to speak of, but if you are seeing this, you have awareness of and might not be put off by that, or by the associated skills and experience being another path I could be presuaded along.

Here’s the PDF version.
Here’s the MS Word version.

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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