Carnival of the Capitalists
By Harish Keshwani at 26 February, 2006, 8:32 pm
Welcome to the newest edition of The Carnival of Capitalists at Ideologic LLC. I am glad to be able to host it for the second time within a year. Reading a carnival post on someone else’s blog and writing a carnival post for your blog are two very different experiences. I want to thank past hosts of the carnival for their efforts in bringing us some of the best, well written and pertinent posts. This week is no different. We received many gems, then there were few posts that had nothing to do with the capitalism. Nevertheless it was quite an experience to read and learn from these wonderful posts. I also enhanced my “Cut-and-Paste” skills during this process.
Those of you, who are visiting this Carnival for the first time, The Carnival of the Capitalists(COTC) is a brainchild of Jay Solo. This Carnival is hosted every week on the blogs of the Bloggers and Companies who volunteer and register at the COTC website. Next week, the carnival will be hosted at Free Money Finance Blog.
A little about us: Ideologic L.L.C. is a web design, blog consulting and search-engine optimization company in Omaha, Nebraska run by Harish Keshwani (yours truly), who is an entrepreneur by heart, software developer by profession and a Blogger by choice. My two blogs - this one and the BusinessWorks Blog, which was featured on Forbes-Best of Web 2005 under Small Business Category.
Now onto the Carnival…
For your reading pleasure, the posts are categorized and each post opens in a new browser window.
Business Advice
All organizations, who are wondering about how to get started with Six Sigma, look no further, just head towards Six Sigma Blog and get a pilot project started.
Hockey teaches a Business Leadership lesson! David Daniels of Business and Technology Reinvention draws a parallel between Olympic Hockey Team management and Business management strategies and comes up with interesting similarities.
Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World advises, when your business is at crossroads, don’t panic. There are many creative solutions that will solve your problems.
The Boring Made Dull thinks that Social Responsibility is just one of the 8 criteria for which any company is admired. Social Responsibility just helps in avoiding negative PR for the company.
Business Communications
In this spam infested world, will e-mail newsletters remain an effective marketing tool? Find out in Business Communications Blog.
Business Ethics
The socially responsible companies also show strong financial performance and profitability. How so? Find out at Business Ethics Blog.
“Last month the Maryland General Assembly enacted a law that requires large employers to spend a certain percentage of their payroll on health care. The bill was designed to apply solely to our company, Wal-Mart”. Read more at Eidelblog, where Perry Eidelbus speaks in defense of Capitalism.
Business Events
After the bust of the dotcom bubble, comes a boom of Web 2.0. TechCrunch is a blog that profiles and reviews new web 2.0 products and companies. TechCrunch had recently organized a networking event. Elisa Camahort of Browster Blog cover this exciting event in this post.
Business Issues
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act on one hand provides ample job opportunites to the Accounting and IT professionals but on other hand is a headache for the companies that are required to comply with the Act. Steven Silver of Scatterbox sorts through the SOX drawer to provide his insight on Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Roth & Company P.C. writes about 1990 tax-shelters and the pretensions attached to them.
Business of Blogging
My 4 P’s are Plan, Persuade, Participate and Play Hard. What are your 4 P’s of Blog Marketing? Read more at MarketMonger.
Do dull Business blogs have a place in the Glamorous Fashion world? Read more about business blogs and shameless plugs of yours truly at the Ideologic Blog.
Economics
Can development of Democratic institutions affect a nation’s economic growth? Find out at Ironman’s Political Calculations.
We have heard - investing in stocks is compared to gambling, but now it is compared to falling knives! “Go ahead - catch a Falling Knife” is the headline in the Capital Chronicle blog.
In Open Source Business, Clair Ching talks about how businesses are taking wrong advantage of the open source community.
Josh Cohen of Multiple Mentality Blog says Luxury is being sacrificed for Economy, in the interest of a cost-effective model in the Airline Industry.
Oil at $15-30 a barrel !! Sure, I will take two barrels (and one for the road!). EconBrowser investigates whether there may be a rational basis for oil companies’ fears that oil might return to $15 - $30 a barrel.
I have been hearing a lot about curling lately. First a Canadian wins a gold medal in curling at Turin Olympics and the whole country celebrates. Now Dave Tufte at VoluntaryXchange compares Economics and Curling in his post.
There is no business like movie business. Professor Bainbridge writes about The Economics of Summer Blockbusters. With movies like MI-3, Poseidon, Superman Returns, X-Men 3, The DaVinci Code and many more, box-office returns are expected to soar along with the temperature this summer.
New technologies always come with a promise of changing this world. Photon Courier has one such technology to discuss-UltraCapacitors. He also talks about the economics associated with this technology.
“Credit derivatives are the fastest growing part of the $270 trillion market for derivatives” and we will need cash to settle these trades! Read more about this on Mover Mike’s Blog.
Entrepreneurship
Learn at interim thoughts how microentrepreneurs, equipped with two M’s - a mobile phone and a moped, conduct their microbusiness.
Jeff Cornwall at The Entrepreneurial Mind says “Growth puts strains on all aspects of entrepreneurial businesses. But, growth also creates personal challenges for the entrepreneur.”
Management
This week, Random Thoughts from a CTO wander to the management guru W. Edwards Deming and his 14 points. Excellent reading if you are in a management position.
Management of other people’s time is the title of Jack Yoest’s well illustrated post. He discusses traits of a successful manager
Investing
Get The Big Picture on the stocks and find out if you, the individual investor, is once again late to the Party.
Steven Towns of The Japan Stock Blog believes stronger yen is good news for American investors in Japanese equities. Read his post to see if you agree.
George at Fat Pitch Financials shares some tips he found, to become a better trend watcher.
Michael Weinstein of The Consumer Electronics Stock blog provides his reasoning why Apple Computers will reign supreme in the business of digital download service in spite of an announcement from Amazon.com about their new digital download service.
Outsourcing
Does Outsourcing have something to do with rising wages? Brian Gongol thinks so. (Brian’s post reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon on outsourcing where a US company outsources work to a company in Country X, which in turn outsources same work to another company in Country Y and this company in turn outsources same work back to the same US company who had outsourced the work in first place, thus completing a full circle)
Personal Finance
Nina Smith of Sitting Pretty Financially paints a dismal picture of irrational exuberance with housing, which is a bubble waiting to burst.
Is debt consolidation good for you? Of course it is! But do you need a debt consolidation service to do it for you? Read what Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity has to say.
An excellent eye-opener post about mortgage loans comes from Searchlight Crusade. I thought, I knew quite a few things about mortgages, but this article gave me an insider look in mortgage financing world!
Doug Mataconis of Below the Beltway Blog writes about a new study related to recently implemented Bankruptcy laws.
A little known Bankruptcy Risk Score is used by creditors to determine whether you get a loan and at what rate. Jeffrey Strain of Personal Finance Advice, advises to keep your eyes open for this score.
Miscellaneous
At least 75 million people use RSS and XML feeds on everyday basis but 65% of these people have no clue about what is RSS. I would call them RSS consumers. Read what Anita Campbell at Small Business Trends says about this trend of RSS Consumerism.
Failed implementations have destroyed many good concepts. Find out the reasons why it happens at Spooky Action.
Got a job interview lined up over the phone? Check out phone interview tips at Find-New-Job blog.
Which do You Prefer: Making More Money or Making Less but Being Paid More than Others? Unlike vacations, groceries and real estate, happiness is bought with relative dollars, for everything else, there is MasterCard and Free Money Finance.
Visit InsureBlog to find out the Cost of Care and a possible cure for Healthcare.
Does Technology make you less productive? E-mails, Instant messengers and other distractions are causing interruptions thus bringing down productivity, says Jim of BizInformer.
Kicking over my Traces discusses the advantage of grouping related products together on an e-biz website.
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