Blogcritics.org is proud to host this week's nomadic Carnival of the Capitalists, a smorgasbord of penetrating and perceptive peeks into the machinations of economic materialism and its ramifications by so inclined bloggers from around the world and down your street. My eyes were opened - yours will be as well.
Future manifestations of these weekly gatherings will appear at these fine sites (bloggers: submit articles here) :
March 14, 2005 The RFID Weblog
March 21, 2005 Beyond The Brand
March 28, 2005 The Mobile Technology Weblog
April 4, 2005 Law and Entrepreneurship News
April 11, 2005 TJ's Weblog
April 18, 2005 Gongol.com
Cheerfully oppressing the proletariat since 2003!
And now to the meat of the matter:
Dale Franks writes in The QandO Blog ("Free Markets Free People")of the worrisome peregrinations of the dollar, putting its current precarious state vis-a-vis massive American trade deficits into historical perspective.
Barry Welford of The Other Bloke's Blog marvels at the efficacy of blogs for the marketing and informational needs of small and mid-sized businesses.
In Conglomerate, David Skeelcompares the Bernard Ebbers trial to the other major securities scandals of the century and find Ebbers historically wanting.
David Foster (not the famous record producer and piano noodler) of Photon Courierrelates the worldwide problem of port congestion and ponders its ramifications for domestic mnufacturing.
Jay Allen writes in The Zero Boss on the irony of get-rich-slowly authors getting rich quickly from those who carve their advice.
Gongol.com's similarly-named Brian Gongol ponders the impact of an "unfriendly competitor" ("cheaper, faster, better") on a stable market, and the necessity of educating the customer on comparing value rather than just price.
Yvonne DiVita of Lip-Sticking, who specializes in online marketing to women, offers Five Female-Friendly Bits and Bytes that should help you in your efforts to market to women who shop online.
On the Catallarchy site, whose high-minded motto is "eleutheria, praxis, cosmos," Patri Friedman ruminates on the symbolic nature of poker chips.
Evelyn Rodriguez of Crossroads Dispatches ("Intersection of technology, creativity & innovation, leadership, systems, beliefs and worldviews") digs deep into the collective psyche for a post on the meaning of blogging (authenticity) and its bearing on marketing.
Stephen Karlson marvels at the perspicacity of today's youth as demonstrated via an annual Economics Concepts Poster Contest on his Cold Stprings Shop site.
Article comments
1 - Phillip Winn
Wow -- how many different blogs are actually participating in this thing?
2 - Aaman
That's some reading ahead of me:) Nice roundup to fine work
3 - Eric Olsen
about 50, and halfway through posting it Movable Type crapped out and I had to redo them. But there's a lot of fascinating information and perspectives here. I highly recommend everyone checking it out.
4 - Eric Berlin
I continue to be amazed and enthused at the possibilities to be explored with the combination of content (blogs, etc.) and well-designed aggregators.
Lots of interesting links to dig through here -- very cool.
5 - Eric Olsen
I agree EB, these fine financially-minded wizards should be encouraged to join Blogcritics
6 - The Zero Boss
Eric, thanks for the link, but the post is actually authored by me. Gwendolen Gross is guest author for my Blogging for Books contest, not for my blog per se. I'll clarify it on my site if you clarify it on yours. :-)
7 - Eric Berlin
Could there be a fifth column(Biz/Finance), so to speak, in the offing?
8 - Aaman
So, you're a fifth column capitalist, eh? :)
9 - Timothy Lee
Thanks for hosting this weeks COTC. I appreciate the trackback. Looks like the original post moved, so I corrected the URI. I'll make a post on COTC this evening after I get a chance to review all the submissions.
I and several others would be glad to contribute 2-3 times a month to Blogcritics, if you decide to add a new Biz column. Let us know. You have all our email and blog addresses.
10 - Eric Olsen
Timothy, that would be great, we would love to have any of you join Blogcritics! Please see the sign-up info here.
We have been trying to figure out how to make room to add a new section or two to the front page, but for now we definitely have a Business and Economics subcategory under Culture and Tech
11 - Dave Nalle
Was any effort made to encourage those capitalists already on Blogcritics to get involved in this? This is the first I've heard of it, and I'd have loved to participate.
Dave
12 - Temple Stark
Just don't write exclusively about economics, though I will read through these - eventually.
So you're an expert at everything else Dave but hadn't heard of this? Hmmmm. Funny.
13 - Eric Olsen
Dave, they do this every week, just go to the CotC link at the top of the page. All you have to do is send in a link and a brief description of your story to their email address.
14 - Eric Berlin
Rami's Tennis Blog is cool stuff, and the concept of "learning how to learn" is applicable across just about all disciplines. I teach information literacy skills to university students, which is really teaching them the building blocks of how to learn, skills that will go much further in today's world than great piles of subject-specific knowledge.
Oh, plus there's some bad-ass pictures of a tennis court built hundreds of feet in the air on top of some hotel in the United Arab Emirates.
15 - Anita Campbell
Hi Dave,
I am hosting next week over at my RFID Weblog . I encourage you to submit a business post. Get yours in early!
Best,
Anita
16 - Dave Nalle
>>So you're an expert at everything else Dave but hadn't heard of this? Hmmmm. Funny.<<
Sorry to show my feet of clay. But in fact, there are only a few things I'm truly an 'expert' on. Those being several areas of History (including statistical demographics), every aspect of calligraphy and typography, 19th century art and illustration, and comparative mythology.
But I am a font of trivia and cultural literacy and am quite willing to read up on anything to learn what I need to in order to be informed on any given topic.
Dave
17 - Eric Olsen
you tell 'em Dave;
Jay of Zero Boss, sorry for the error and made the change