Few business bloggers have given even scant attention to ensuring their sites are accessible to handicap visitors. Everyone assumes that all visitors will be able to see the flashy graphics, watch a video, hear an audio message, and then move a mouse to open additional eye and ear candy. Timothy Lee gives the critical basics of site accessibility on his Land of Opportunity site.
In a typically fine essay, Arnold Kling suggests that the over-emphasis on high-level math in economics graduate schools tends to filter out students with other talents and knowledge that would be useful in economics.
A recent store opening in his former home of Fairbanks, Alaska, leads Kevin McGehee to ruminations on how a small and isolated town simultaneously experiences exciting new growth and persistent blight.
We have more than one newspaper to provide us with our unclassified information. Why not have more than one CIA to provide us with our secret and top-secret information? We would have two chances of getting the information right, and two chances of avoiding a dysfunctional bureaucracy, writes Michael Higgins of the Chocolate and Gold Coins site.
AuburnPR Blog's Melanie Sollid provides a nice view of the basics that make a business blog interesting, readable and attention-getting to a public who may not be blog savvy.
Rami's Tennis Blog notes that acquiring a skill, any skill, also teaches the invaluable meta-skill of learning how to learn.
In any given year, 27-30% of the Medicare budget is spent on the 5-6% of beneficiaries who die that year. Daniel Altman proposes that Medicare save money by eliminating end-of-life care. Different River carries this argument to its logical conclusion, noting 100% of the Medicare budget could be saved by eliminating care for anyone who actually needs it.
Fred Ottley helps break the tedium of the business day with humor on his Funny 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