Carnival of the Capitalists

Welcome to the March 21, 2005 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists, the Internet's most intriguing weekly round-up of free-market articles. The best part of hosting COTC is the chance to explore some new and interesting territory in the blogosphere. So, grab a cup o’ joe, sit back and enjoy over 50 great entries this week!

Blogging

Jason Davis at Recruiting.com takes a look at recruiting, blogging and the effects it has on those who write these blogs.

Jay Allen at The Zero Boss talks about Adagio Teas and how it botched a promotion aimed at the blogosphere, threatening its reputation.

Yvonne DiVita of Lip-Sticking points to an interview of Neville Hobson who talks about why blogging for business makes sense.

Business Law

Abnu at Wordlab looks at the trouble with lawyers and advertising: lawyers don't have a clue about branding.

Listen to Anthony Cerminaro as he is interviewed by SMB Trendwire on The Well Utilized Business Lawyer.

Entrepreneurship/Small Business

Jeff Cornwall looks at the challenges of going into business with friends as partners. 

Greg Manter at the Retail Store Blog takes a look at the Reef ads and 3 tests for evaluating sexy ads.

Steve Rucinski at SMB Trendwire asks you to join a conversation with Ron Finklestein, author of Celebrate Success: Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company.

Anita Campbell of the Small Business Blog shares a new survey showing that one out of four small businesses with employees works out of the owner's home and talks about this trend’s implications.

John Dmohowski of Drake Review shares serial entrepreneur Jeff Black from iAtlas and Vision Ventures view of the current state of wireless market.

Gordon Smith of Conglomerate looks at both sides of the issue of getting confidentiality agreements from a venture capitalist.

E-Commerce/Technology

Barry Welford at The Other Bloke’s Blog thinks about web design and the need to design for more than just Internet Explorer. 

Finance/Economics

Gary at the New Economist offers a thoughtful review of recent economic literature about the timing and effect of democratization on growth.

Allen Bellinger thinks about the impact that the British Government’s budgeted deficit will have on small businesses in the UK.

Will Franklin asks the question, do personal accounts achieve solvency for social security?

Rob Sama discusses the implications if something is structurally wrong with Boston’s big dig.

Brian Gongol suggests that we learn from the creative destructive forces that sweep through our economy and remember not to be too jubilant about those companies being destroyed.

Jonathan Wilde shares a post by Patri Friedman discussing his thoughts after listening to economist Robert Shiller on the topic of risk and risk management.

Steve Conover at the The Skeptical Optimist talks about the US debt fifty years from now.

Individ takes a look at China’s growth as it relates to raw material prices and the growth of its military. What effect will China’s growth have on the rest of the world?

Tex the Pontificator analyzes John McLaughlin’s led comments social security reform.

Government/Politics 

Different River makes a great case for experience ratings for Medical Malpractice Insurance.

Jack Benway reports on his hesitation to support the private school voucher program in Arizona.

Joe Kristan at Roth & Company Update reports on a new IRS ruling that disallows home equity loan interest is to be deductible for alternative minimum tax?

Tim Worstall asks the question: If Fair Trade for coffee is a good idea, shouldn't we also be having fair trade for wheat?

Mike Pechar reports on the Trans-Erie ferry service.

The New Federalist posts that selling "herbal supplements" with big, long claims does not amuse the Feds as they raid the Enzyte HQ.

Dave Sheridan of No Illusions says that feel-good activists cause unintended harm for the World Bank.

Innovation/Trends

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World gives a great explanation of Podcasting.

David Jackson from The Internet Stock Blog discusses Yahoo 360 and it’s implications in the marketplace.

The Market

Dale Franks has an interesting post on The QandO Blog about the effects of the privatization of Social Security could have on investment markets.

Rawlon Adams of the Capital Chronicle says it isn't plain sailing being a bear in this economy.

Mario Jurkovic of Thoughts and Observations does an analysis of PartyPoker.com, the leading company in the online poker industry and the IPO rumours that are circulating on the Web.

Marketing/Sales

Nellakantan posts that for as little as $12 you can fly between two second tier Indian cities, on Air Deccan, India’s newly launched budget airline. While it doesn’t have the frills, $12 sounds like a good price to me!

Jim Logan reminds you that there's never a bad time for a great sales promotion.

Ankesh Kothari of Marketing eYe asks what is branding, really?

Peter Capula of pc4media outlines how to get your event online by using the web before, during and after the event.

Sugarmama provides a first person look at managing her first project and why managing people can be hard.

Rosa Say in a post named Experience Required (Are You Sure?) talks about the Catch 22 of  Experience.

Ironman explores the ethical standards that shareholders should demand from their publicly-traded company's board of directors in choosing a CEO.

Martin Lindeskog from the EGO blog takes a look at the recent business scandals and sees them as an example of a company practicing rational business ethics.

Ashish at Ashish’s Niti has an interesting point of view on Corporate Philanthropy.

Lisa Haneberg of Management Craft offers a process that can be a manager's quarterly refresher!

David Foster at the Chicagoboyz asks the question: if you suddenly became CEO of General Motors...what would you do?

Misc

Will Turman has a great little riff on human connection and office space size.

Josh Kaufman brings us his “Personal MBA” program adding to the discussion that Seth started about avoiding the cost of an MBA by reading the right 30-40 books.

Get in on the Hardwork versus Laziness debate that’s happening between Steve Pavlina and Fred Gratson today!

Mad Anthony takes a look at the possible end of production for Iran's national car - and what it says about capitalism vs. state controlled production.

Heather Burke at Pro Wrestling Impact asks is Paul E. a brilliant mind or WWE puppet?

Last, But Not Least

Come enter the The Best Customer Response Contest here, at Beyond the Brand.

Thanks to all the participants and readers of Carnival of the Capitalists. It's been fun reading and putting together this week’s round-up of business articles.

Next week, March 28, 2005, Carnival of the Capitalists will be posted at The Mobile Technology Weblog.

For more information about Carnival of the Capitalists, including information about how to submit your articles or about hosting the round-up at your site visit the Carnival home page.

Comments

[Geoffrey Transom]

Capitalism? Where? Not in a country where the entire political machine exists to transfer tax receipts to a very few oligopolistic defence contractors.

If that was happening in any South-East Asian or Eastern European country, FOX and CNN would call it "crony capitalism".

We in the West spent trillions of future dollars during the Cold War - to prevent people from experimenting with the ownership structure of their capital. We wound up paying 50c in the dollar in taxes to our own socialist behemoth. Where's the "capitalism" in that?

Where's the "capitalism" in using the aforementioned military to accumulate other people's resources? Capitalism is about unfettered, beautiful markets, not about putting the children of an economic underclass on the ground to launch the ultimate "hostile takeover".

I love my markets, and it pains me to see them descending into cronyism (since Lincoln's day). I really hope that I've actually found some capitalists here...

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