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June 05, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists - June 6th Edition - Hosted by GalaTime
As your host, let me first share how I've compiled this CotC. I started out with Brian Gongol's template, but noticed that several posts (e.g. topics related to blogging, environment, etc.) didn't fall into any of the typical CotC categories. Hence, I've assigned (one or more) keywords to each entry for better categorization & navigation. There were 48 entries, all of which have been listed below, in random order. Given my own blogging interests, I've asterisk-ed those blogs and/or posts that talk about investing & trading in the capital markets.
| Joseph's Marketing Blog | Look for Competition LAST | Business Strategy | When planning your business, look at the competition lastly as to not base your business on a foundation built by your competitors. |
| Secrets of Going Solo | Yes Virgina, You Do Need to Sell | Entrepreneurship, Sales | A direct challenge to solopreneurs to get over the excuse of I don't like selling. If you don't like selling hire someone who does or get out of business. |
| Upsetting the Balance of History | Upsetting the Balance of History | Economics | Economic lessons of unintended consequences |
| Freedom's Fidelity | Global Warming or Heated Rhetoric? | Economics, Environment | General Discussion of Environmental Economics. |
| Weekend Pundit | Waiting For The Bubble To Burst | Real Estate, Investing | Is the real estate bubble really a bubble? If it is, will it burst or just deflate? How can you tell if you are indeed stuck in an overheated market? |
| BaySense | Mis-representation of 'cap & trade': just like Groundhog Day | Regulation, Environment | Most newspapers like the Sun do a poor job of explaining the concept of cap & trade |
| Lead and gold | Top down Innovation | Business Strategy | Argues that while established firms might have an advantages in capital and brand recognition, they face huge barriers in terms of diseconomies of scale, procedures mindsets, and inappropriate metrics. |
| Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching | Why GTD reminds me of the 7 Habits | Professional Development | This article examines how the productivity teachings of Stephen Covey and David Allen intersect and synchronize: As I see it, Allen is bringing fresh attention (especially in Blogsville) to timeless principles. |
| Blog Business World | Title tags: Simple SEO | Blogging | One of the fastest and often forgotten techniques, to move a blog or web page higher in the search rankings, is to change the page’s title tags. |
| View From a Height | Finance Fault Line?* | Investing | Former NY Fed Governor Gerald Corrigan argues that hedge funds have learned from the LTCM fiasco to limit their leverage so as to avoid another meltdown. The problem is, leverage was only one, aggravating aspect of the collapse. |
| Capital Chronicle | The state of auto-makers: my other car's a Rover | Business Strategy | Medium-sized UK car maker MG Rover went bankrupt in May - just how healthy are most of the other notable auto-makers in the US, Europe and Asia? |
| You Big Mouth, You! | Work: What I Do For Money | Entrepreneurship | small business case study in finding and developing a niche |
| Gautam Ghosh on Management | What do you look for in a career? | Professional Development | Sometimes the insight into what a person looks for in a career comes from popular culture, like a Hindi film ! |
| The Entrepreneurial Mind | Assessing Opportunities | Entrepreneurship | Learning to effectively assess potential opportunities is a critical skill for entrepreneurs to develop to increase their chances for success. |
| The Other Bloke's Blog | NeuroMarketing Versus Internet Marketing - No Contest | Marketing | NeuroMarketing reads brainwaves and is invasive. Internet Marketing uses the electronic footprints that customers leave all around to fine-tune promotional efforts. |
| Free Money Finance | Net Worth of Financial Bloggers | Blogging | Sheds light into the financial success (or lack thereof) of people who are giving financial advice on the web |
| voluntaryXchange | Models In This Ad ... | Marketing | Why do advertisers of real estate that features provocatively dressed women have to put a disclaimer in about race? |
| The Sharpener | Brown’s crusade | Politics, Economics | Free market, sceptical dissection of UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's 'Marshall Plan for Africa'. |
| Crossroads Dispatches | Are You Blind to the Breakthrough Story Right In Front of You? | Business Strategy | Dietrich Mateschitz, Donald Trump, Sidney Frank typify a new class of billionaires who got rich not by inventing a new product but by selling an ordinary one inventively. |
| The Prudent Investor | Experience shows that man never learned anything from experience | Politics | President Bush's style of governing and the relaxed mood at the Federal Reserve Bank don't bode well for the future when we remember that the US already went through such a constellation before. |
| Political Calculations | Graduating to a Paycheck | Professional Development | How much is a college degree worth today? |
| JSLogan | Are Frequent Visitors to Your Business Better Than More Visitors? | Entrepreneurship | If all things were equal, would you prefer more visits to your business per person or more people visiting less often? |
| Marketing eYe | Playing to Win | Entrepreneurship | The reason why Detroit Pistons won game 4 against Miami Heat... and the business (and life) lesson behind it. |
| Roth & Company Tax Update | Treasury Inspector General, Irs Clash Over S-Corporation Employment Taxes | Regulation | The Treasury Inspector General proposes drastic action to collect employment taxes on S corporation income. The IRS disagrees. So do we. |
| Ideologic L.L.C. - A Blog Process Outsourcing Company | Blogger Code of Ethics - Blog Process Outsourcing Version | Blogging | Blog Process Outsourcing is a business concept where a professional blogger writes on behalf of the Company. Therefore, it is essential that some Blogger Code of Ethics is in place for this category of Blogging. |
| Retail Store Blog | Retail Trends and the Boomer Convergence | Business Strategy | The retail spending and sensibilities of the huge Baby Boom and Echo Boom generations appear to be converging. If so, then organic, sweat-shop free, efficient, sustainable products will move markets |
| The Big Picture* | On Line Trading: A Business Plan for the future* | Business Strategy, Trading | Since E*Trade's bid for Ameritrade was rebuffed, and Ameritrade is now approaching T.D. Waterhouse about a merger, I started thinking about this commodity business. |
| Half Sigma | The economics of charity | Economics | The author argues against the notion that charity is strictly about altruism, and thinks that it should not be tax deductible. |
| Revenue Roundtable | Leads, leads, leads | Marketing, Sales | Sales person: Marketing sends us crappy leads. I don’t get enough GOOD leads. Marketer: Sales never follows up on all the leads we send them. We are wasting money generating leads that are never followed up. |
| ROFASix | The Celtic Tiger: Secret of Success Unveiled | Politics, Economics | Why has Ireland's growth been 167% over the last 18 years? While other European economies were languishing, Ireland boomed. A recent study uncovered the reason. |
| Chocolate and Gold Coins | The Economics of Wine Tasting | Economics | If you have a winery, should you charge for wine tasting? |
| Guerrilla Consulting | Getting Paid What You're Worth | Professional Development | This post describes why the hourly billing rate is bankrupting the best professioanl service providers and what can be done abouit it. |
| The Internet Stock Blog* | Is Amazon the loser from the EBAY-Shopping.com deal?* | Technology, Investing | This post discusses the threat to Amazon.com from eBay's announced acquisition of Shopping.com. |
| Coyote Blog | Why Do So Many Libertarians Blog | Politics, Blogging | I was asked in an interview recently, after I described myself as an anarcho-capitalist, why so many libertarians blog. This was my answer. |
| Mover Mike | Copper and Julian Robertson* | Trading | Who is Julian Robertson and what did he say on Ron Insana's show that took the air out of the market on Tuesday May 39th? |
| The Common Room | Managing from the Heart, Correcting | Professional Development | Even if you disagree please don't make me wrong. |
| Big Picture, Small Office | The Truck Stops Here | Professional Development | This is story of decent, uncomplicated man, retiring after thirty years with the company. But where is the CEO? Another tale of folly from the large company that thinks small. |
| Businesspundit | All Marketers Are Liars - A Book Review | Marketing | I review Seth Godin's new book "All Marketers are Liars." |
| The Mobile Technology Blog | School girl "hostage" phone | Technology | There are lots of reasons to have two mobile phones - here's just a couple of more amusing examples. |
| Small Business Trends | Hottest Sites to Find Small Businesses for Sale | Entrepreneurship | This post describes why so many more small businesses are being bought and sold today, and contains the six best sites to find listings of businesses for sale. |
| Ashish's Niti | Leave the culture and the tax-payers alone | Regulation | Argues against government patronage of art as a non-monetiazable thing |
| Interested-Participant | Swampland Sold on eBay | Regulation | A company that sold swampland to buyers on eBay has been ordered by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation to track down everybody who bought swamp and give all their money back. |
| EGO | Christopher Cox at the SEC* | Politics, Investing | Thoughts and comments on Christopher Cox as the new SEC chairman. |
| Alchemy of Trading* | Heart Of Darkness* | Trading | Dangers of leveraged, high-stakes trading |
| Gongol.com | The Economic Costs of Pseudoscience | Economics | Pseudoscience isn't just harmless fun and games -- it has real economic costs. The more you like markets, the more you should be ready to fight pseudoscience wherever you find it. |
| Mean Ol' Meany | Treatise on Re-Education of Deadbeat Socialists | Politics | When all of our populace learns the value of a dollar, they can easily be motivated to better themselves and keep their damn grubby, no-working paws off my pocketbook. |
| Drakeview | Business plan planning | Entrepreneurship | Creating a good business plan is lot of work that must be done by the founder(s) of a start-up. While professionals can assist with some elements, the planning and critical aspects need to be authored by the founder. |
| The Picket Line | Lucky Duckies | Regulation | A useful summary of the "lucky duckies" kerfluffle that was set off by a Wall Street Journal editorial about how the poor in America don't pay enough income tax and so aren't motivated to agitate for lower taxes and less-costly government. |
FYI, next week's CotC will be hosted by Byrne's Marketview. Submit your entries here.
Hope you enjoyed this CotC. Cheers!
-Kaushik
Posted by galatime at June 5, 2005 06:00 PM