I’m this week’s host for the Carnival of the Capitalists, a weekly gathering of business related blog posts that adds up to over 50 briefly noted entries in this week’s edition. Next week’s Carnival of the Capitalists will appear at Casey Software. If you’re interesting in participating in future Carnivals, see the entry form for multiple carnivals.
This was kind of an odd week at Hip Hop Press.
Typically I write about the wide range of business activities involving hip hop, from label signings to fashion lines to marketing. This week such topics were overshadowed by a conflict within the hip hop community that took precedence. So I don’t actually have a post in this week’s Carnival!
However, in the spirit of the Carnival, let me direct you to an interview I did with a rapper named Tahir on the topic of Hood Economics back in the early days of Hip Hop Press.
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is organized into the following topics:
Posts That Caught My Eye
Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Sales
Blogs
Investing
Personal Finance and Planning
Taxes
Consumer Issues
Doing The Right Thing
Guidance and Advice
Time Management
Economics and International Trade
Informed Perspectives
I’m sure a better taxonomy was possible but I’ve already been on this gig for hours! Enjoy.
Posts That Caught My Eye
Cold Spring Shops has the winners of the annual Economics Concepts Poster Contest: YOUNGSTERS CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT. Be sure to see all the winners.
Businesspundit considers literary lessons for entrepreneurs in Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, and Entrepreneurship.
The Business of America is Business discusses the market for Mecca Cola: Mecca Cola: I don’t buy it.
Sitting Pretty segues from the Oscars to the financial state of Black America via the movie Crash: Oscar Crash.
The Big Picture takes a look at the Wall Street Journal’s blogging efforts in WSJ Joins the Blogging Crowd. Big Picture also periodically posts about the music industry.
Multiple Mentality reflects on the process of taking a Dick Cheney hunting accident greeting card from incident to marketplace in That Was Fast.
The Small Business Buzz takes a look at the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs in Entrepreneurial Style.
[Note: The Small Business Buzz is the in-house blog for GreatFX Business Cards which currently has a BlogAds ad here at Hip Hop Press.]
Entrepreneurship
The Cernos Blog reveals their decision making process in Why Email Archiving? – How we decided on a product to build.
The Entrepreneurial Mind wants you to know that Yes, Entrepreneurship Can, and Is, Being Taught.
Marketing and Sales
Escape from Cubicle Nation asks the all important question, Do you have to drip slime to sell your services?
Business Communication discusses the fine art of Reactivating Old Fatigued Subscribers in Your Email List.
BizInformer asks Would You Rather Have Great Marketing and Sales or A Great Product?
Blogs
Blog Business World offers some basic advice for building your link bait worthiness in Organic SEO: Blogs cast the link bait.
The Scratching Post considers metrics for measuring blog effectiveness in What’s Your K Factor?.
Investing
Ask Uncle Bill continues his educational mission in Mr. Market And The Upside Down PE.
Canadian Financial Stuff shares how he has profited from a joke’s insight on investing in banks in Advice: Listen to a Comedian sometimes.
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity discovers that You Have Terrible Mutual Fund) Timing but has contrarian solutions to offer.
The Japan Stock
Blog discusses the implications for investors of the Bank of Japan’s actions: BOJ Ends Super-Easy Monetary Policy, but “Rates to Remain at Effectively 0%” (EWJ, ITF, VPL).
A Geek’s World uses a historical chart to discuss basic investing ideas: Personal Finance: An Interesting Chart.
Fat Pitch Financials reviews Phil Town’s Rule #1 Book.
Personal Finance and Planning
Free Money Finance wants to clarify that Even the Rich Need to Spend Less than They Earn.
Stocks For Me has a review with numerous quotes: Book Review: Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Pacesetter Mortgage Blog provides insights into The #1 Way to Finance a Home Improvement.
Boston Gal’s Open Wallet explains the high price tag she puts on retirement needs: Why $3,376,500.00?
Firevalt Blog considers differing forms of financial knowledge in Information vs. wisdom.
InsureBlog continues a discussion of insuring homemakers who become disabled: Insuring Mrs Cleaver, Part 2.
Taxes
Searchlight Crusade digs into The Basics of 1031 Exchanges.
Roth & Company Tax Update discusses possible changes in California LLC fees in CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME (WITH OUR REFUND CLAIMS).
raising4boys.com says Thank God for the Child Tax Credit.
Consumer Issues
fivecentnickel.com advises against delivery charges for local restaurants in The Death of Free Delivery.
Ripples: post-corporate adventures looks at the role of services like Tripadvisor.com: Good friends do not let friends stay in rat-bag hotels.
Political Calculations offers a financial tool for calculating a practical answer to the question, Are Compact Fluorescents a Bright Idea?.
Doing The Right Thing
Frugal Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Warehouse looks at the positive implications of Conscious Capitalism in The Capitalism of Conscience.
interim thoughts includes Milton Friedman in a discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Lip-Sticking wants to redirect the conversation on working women and motherhood in Xerox: A Woman’s Place and Why the Mommy Wars Ended.
Guidance and Advice
The Success Pundit encourages you to Stop staring at the roof and just get to work, but in a good way.
The Coyote Within addresses the career altering question, Where Do I Go From Here?.
Career Intensity provides tips on how to Jump Start Your Earning Power.
Slow Leadership offers a lesson in Letting Go, Letting Be and Letting Through.
Jim Logan compares business offerings in Teach To Fish Or Feed A Fish Dinner – Where’s The Greater Opportunity?.
Freelance Pro offers self care suggestions in Freelancer diet: Eat with less salt.
Time Management
Photon Courier feels that managers should manage not only their own time but that of employees and customers as well: MANAGING TIME EFFECTIVELY – BUT WHOSE TIME?.
Six Sigma discusses Managing Time During Six Sigma Projects.
Economics and International Trade
Econbrowser considers The latest employment figures: implications for policy.
Financial Options links to the week’s economic and financial reports in The Week Ahead: Your Financial Roadmap for March 6-10, 2006.
Below The Beltway holds forth on The Political Price Of Oil.
Mover Mike points to The Fallout From "Dubai".
The Art of Money expresses concerns about the U.S. economy in Yield Curve Update.
Centrerion: Canadian Politics is embarking on a multipost consideration of NAFTA’s effects on Canada with GDP and GDP per Capita Since NAFTA.
Informed Perspectives
iPie.org considers technology transfer from academia to business setings in Thinking twice about tech transfer.
ProfessorBainbridge.com points to the positive effects of insider representation: A Justification for Insider Board Representation.
Hayek, MD holds that the free market should be credited with the "increasing availability of hospital quality information" in
Credit where credit is due.
The Boring Made Dull discusses Walmart’s banking plans in As We All Know.
And that’s it for another stimulating episode of Carnival of the Capitalists. Till next time!
phh
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