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.
John Beck, aka Beck (not Dr. Demento's son), writes on Incite of his consternation and bemusement regarding Democratic swipes at Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Rawdon Adams of Capital Chronicle follows up a previous Carnival of the Capitalists article analyzing UK-quoted investment company Guinness Peat Group on the basis of their recently announced preliminary 2004 results with a focus on international equity (and stuff).
Ego, home of "reason, egoism and laissez-faire capitalism," finds Martin Lindeskog suggesting the adventof advertising and other sources of blog income can subsidize what is still a labor of love for most.
Does personal technology, and in particular the iPod, cut the user off from his/her environment, or does it empower the user to more comfortably insert oneself into that environment, or both? Russell Buckley, of The Mobile Technology Weblog, explains.
You've heard of the citizen journalist? The next hot thing is the citizen broadcaster: audio — in the form of podcasting, Internet radio, and audio blogging — is a hot trend right now, according to Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends.
Thanks to a new Ohio law, starting May 2 sellers on eBay will be required to have an auctioneer's license, to which a lengthy and onerous process is attached. As the implications of the law become clear, even the sponsor in concerned relates Mike Pechar of Interested-Participant.
How did Jones Soda grow to become a $100 million company so quickly? Ankesh Kothari offers thoughts on their packaging and distribution on the Marketing eYe site.
Should management be a licensed profession like law or medicine in an effort to elevate ethics? Slacker Manager's Brendon Connellylikes the idea but doesn't see how it could be implemented.
Part-time MBA student Mad Anthony revels in his own good fortune while pointing out the absurdity of the current system of federal student loan deferments, with a brief comparison to "real" businesses.
The Tax Foundation says that there is no tax policy justification for the tax exemption for credit unions. That may be so, but Joe Kristan of the Roth & Company Tax Update site illustrates that tax policy is no match for the credit union lobby.
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