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Archive for August, 2007

Reasoned Audacity presents the August 27 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Next week’s host will be me, originally scheduled for Geek Practitioners Blog, but I may instead host it at the Welcome to Help Blog, in concert with bringing the business up to speed this week, now that the baby is here (see also followup pictures if interested).

Because I wasn’t open for business yet, to date I have downplayed it, but Welcome to Help sponsors the hosting of this very CotC site. I intend to take as much promotional advantage of that as I can. Wouldn’t you? After all, I have lately been promoting other things, if only by adding paragraphs like these two each week:

When you’re done checking out this week’s edition, if you missed it, Rob has a new site called MBA by Blog, which is for the best posts ever by business topic, collected together on the idea one can get quite an education by reading them. Check it out! You are welcome to suggest posts for inclusion in it.

Finally, Deb has been making some cool stuff for sale at http://neatlytangled.etsy.com/ and it only seems right to take the opportunity to point it out to more people. She does custom orders, too.

See, that didn’t hurt at all, and you could stop any time. One of these days this site will be tweaked. Then there will be more emphasis on the above stuff in the sidebar, less in these posts themselves.

One more CotC note. The October 22 edition has been claimed by Blawg Review, home of exactly the same week’s edition the past couple years. We’re up to October 29 for the next available one. If you think you’re available that far out, feel free to read the info and e-mail the address noted on the Hosting CotC page.

Revenue River presents the August 20 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

This edition has a twist. Scott discovered a number of entries that are not only obviously SEO-oriented for the purpose of building ad revenue, but are also copies of someone else’s content. Most of us use carnivals for SEO to some degree, but the blogs in question seemed, since they started entering, all too purpose-made. They were included, unlinked, in a hall of shame, and in a followup post Scott identified the person apparently behind them. We’ll try to avoid having them appear in any future editions.

Next week’s host will be Jack Yoest.

As I mentioned last week, we were due to evict the baby on Monday the 20th. Here’s the official announcement, and you can see followup pictures any time by going to the category link. I’ve posted a bunch since the original announcement.

When you’re done checking out this week’s edition, if you missed it, Rob has a new site called MBA by Blog, which is for the best posts ever by business topic, collected together on the idea one can get quite an education by reading them. Check it out! You are welcome to suggest posts for inclusion in it.

Finally, Deb has been making some cool stuff for sale at http://neatlytangled.etsy.com/ and it only seems right to take the opportunity to point it out to more people. She does custom orders, too.

Spooky Action presents the August 13 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Next week’s host will be Revenue River.

For the rest, I am just going to quote the e-mail I sent to the mailing list where I announce CotC is up and any other news or requests for feedback:

Good news! We now have hosts lined up all the way through the October 15 edition. October 8 will be the first week of our fifth year, amazingly, and we are the longest running blog carnival that has never missed a week and never reverted to being hosted the same place each week (by definition no longer really a carnival). Go us!

Next week’s edition announcement could get interesting, if not in an “oh God, oh God, we’re all gonna die” sort of way (that would be our cars). We are due to have a C-section on the 20th to deliver the third and final baby. For those who don’t know the story, I started blogging in February 2003, and Deb started not long after. We met through our blogs and the relationship actually fired up almost concurrently with the start of CotC. I flew out to California Christmas night in 2003, we got married January 2, 2004 in Vegas, and then I flew back at the end of January and we drove across the country with Deb’s stuff, moving her from California to Massachusetts. Since then there have been two kids, another pending, multiple new blogs, loss of readers and status (I peaked in the top 100 in the blogosphere Ecosystem, once upon a time), recent loss of the large client that was the only real reason for being for the business I’d been part of for several years, and through it all there has always been Carnival of the Capitalists as a constant. I may weary of it at times, and wonder what I do it for, but it’s kind of cool, having it always there, more or less the same as when it was an audacious, untried concept.

But I digress.

If for some reason I don’t get around to announcing or putting a link up to next week’s edition, just have a look at http://revenueriver.com/ for it when the appropriate timeframe comes.

When you’re done checking out this week’s edition, if you missed it, Rob has a new site called MBA by Blog, at http://www.mba-by-blog.com/, which is for the best posts by business topic ever, collected together on the idea one can get quite an education by reading them. Check it out! You are welcome to suggest posts for inclusion in it.

Finally, Deb has been making some cool stuff for sale at http://neatlytangled.etsy.com/ and it only seems right to take the opportunity to point it out to more people. She does custom orders, too. Obviously this will all be on hold next week.

I added some links to the above, given the differences in post versus e-mail formats. Otherwise it’s verbatim.

Linked Intelligence presents the August 6 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Next week’s host will be Spooky Action.

Host signups seem to be going well, with everything through October 15 filled definitely or offered out to prospective hosts. I also have a backup host to fill in if any fall through.

If you sign up to host, there remains a chance you might get a crack at an earlier slot, but more likely I will be offering Late October onward. Part of how it filled up so far out is the traditional anniversary, where Rob hosts one week and I host the next, as we did that first year. As of the October 8 edition, we will be starting CotC’s fifth year. We are also the longest running carnival to have never missed a week and never stopped roaming from blog to blog. Carnival of the Vanities was older, and the inspiration for the niche carnival idea, but it nearly closed, devolved into one host, non-migratory carnival, and started missing weeks.

If you missed it last week, you should be sure to check out MBA by Blog. Where CotC is for good business posts in a given week, MBA by Blog is for the best all time ones, from which people can learn much on various categories.

Finally, on a capitalistic note, you should all visit Deb’s Etsy Shop, where there is some amazingly cool stuff available, and she recently made her first sale.