David Strahlberg's Media Stock Blog offers looks into who will bear the burden of a proposed increase in wholesale music download prices, and this summer's offerings at the Imax theaters, including the latest offering in the Batman film series.
The alphabetically apellated FCH writes in the Ideas in Motion blog that "blogs are free enterprise capitalist expressions of communication": the day when the number of blogs equals the number of people in the US cannot be too far off. Blogs solve a great deal of the tragedy of commons problem.
In new Millenium Minds, Rob Thrasher is very enthusiastic about the prospects of forthcoming online shopping search engine Become.com, founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun of MySimon fame.
Google's new movie search tool has already received a lot of attention, but David Jackson of The Internet Stock Blog looks more carefully at who provides the underlying content and transactions for Google Movies, which other companies gain and lose, and what the broader implications are for the Internet sector.
Does open source translate into anti-capitalism? How Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera compete to the benefit of the average internet user, according to AnyLetter's Andrew Hughes.
James Cherkoff of Collaborate Marketing spends a lot of time explaining to corporate types what the blogopshere may or may not mean to them - he compiled this experience into a primer on blogging for the curious marketeer.
You want more visitor traffic to your business blog but you’ve found that you’ve tried all of the usual avenues. Perhaps you should consider talking people into surfing over to your site. All you have to do is get yourself interviewed, as an expert in your field, according to Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World.
Abnu of Wordlab takes a look at the Big Apple's newest slogan "The World's Second Home" and cantankerous commentator Lewis Black's "I Loves New York" rant from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Gill Blog's Tony Gill, a workplace continuity specialist, previews a survey showing many companies are unprepared for significant threats to their business operations: 20% of businesses still do not have disaster recovery plans, despite respondents believing that terrorism, fire and flood present significant threats to their business operations.
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