Come one, come all. This is the Carnival of the Capitalists!

I have hosted the Carnival of the Capitalists as a blogging birthday celebration of sorts for three years now. My actual birthday is Wednesday, and I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate online than by spending time thinking about free markets and free minds.

With that having been said, before I begin I’d like to call attention to a new blog my friend, Julia, just started up. It’s called Random Apps of Kindness, and it’s mostly about her adventures enjoying the food scene in Boston. It’s a great blog, so go check it out.

Without further delay, let’s begin. In no particular order:

• Adam Shostack of Emergent Chaos writes about philanthropy in startups, and the idea of beginning to give back prior to generating revenue (Ed: I don’t agree that it’s a great idea, but read for yourself).

• Martin Lindeskog of the Egoist blog speculates on the meaning of Yahoo’s recent purchase of del.icio.us.
• James Gardner of the One to One blog tries to answer Martin’s question about del.icio.us, saying it’s all about Web 2.0.
• Scott Milener of The Browster Blog also writes on the acquisition.
• Oh, and not to beat a dead horse, but Peter Caputa also writes on the acquisition.
• Tom O’Neill of the Buyout Blog writes about the concept of “overpaying” for a company, as related to two recent high-profile acquisitions.
• Evelyn Rodriguez of Crossroads Dispatches writes about creating buzz in a cafe.
• “Flexo” at Consumerism Commentary presents Review of The Number by Lee Eisenberg, Part 1
• Noah Kaagan of OKdork writes about his feelings after working at Facebook.com for 3 weeks.
• Josh Cohen of the venerable Multiple Mentality, presents Bad Service .
• Ed of Daily Dose of Optimism speculates about what the proliferation of cheap Japanese robots means to the economy. (Ed: So long as I can buy a $40 robot that fetches me a beer, I’ll be happy.)
• Starling David Hunter of The Business of America Is Business writes about Airing Your Pajamas in Public.
• Barry Welford of The Other Bloke’s Blog writes about how Condoleezza Rice Supports Internet Grassroots Activities.
• Yvonne DiVita of Lip-sticking writes about why there aren’t more women speakers – on the speaking cirucit.
• G. P. Clarke Jr of More Than Right writes about Christ and Capitalism.
• Toni Straka of The Prudent Investor writes about European central banks selling off their gold reserves.
• “Xyba” of Once More Into the Breach writes about an unfair tax bill.
• Dan Morgan of No Speed Bumps writes about jobs in mexico.
• Skip Angel of Random Thoughts from a CTO writes about putting it all out there.
• William Crawford of The Integrative Stream writes about Coca-Cola’s branding.
• “NOTR” of “ROFASix” writes about how the CAN SPAM act is another useless act from congress.
• Nick Aster of Triple Pundit writes about how all the timber in Canada, plus hydropower, plus mining under the forest is worth substantially less than the value of the services the forest provides if left intact – C$37.8 billion vs C$93.2 billion. Canada.
• David Jackson of the Internet Stock Blog speculates about how much is Slashdot And thus VA Linux worth?
• Free Money Finance writes about 50 ways to trim your budget.
• Henry Stern of InsureBlog writes about how to save money by getting fit.
• Bob Pritchett of Fire Someone Today writes about what the dentist taught him about ignoring customers.
• Dave Tufte of voluntaryXchange writes about grade inflation, media bias and economic growth.
• Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind (a must-read blog) writes about courage in the gulf.
• “Ironman” of the Coyote Blog compares the EU to the USA in two years of economic data.
• Jim of Bargaineering writes about retirement proposals.
• Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World writes about blogs and public relations.
• Dan Melson of Searchlight Crusade writes about a proposed tax change for home ownership.
• Steve Conover at The Skeptical Optimist writes about 540 scenarios for our grandchildrens’ debt burden in 2050.
• Early Riser writes about whether employees should sell their stock options.
• Jack Yoest of his self titled blog writes about having recently advised a non-profit on a number strategies.
• Abnormal Returns writes about gold and inflation, saying that the link between them is tenuous at best.
• David Daniels of Business & Technology Reinvention writes about 20 business ideas to implement right now.
• The Real Returns writes about how to disregard the volatility of stock prices and how to focus on dividends instead.
• Joe Kristan of Roth & Company speculates that Bill Thomas may be a diabolical genius.
• James Hamilton of Econbrowser writes about the volatility of oil prices (or lack thereof).
• Rob of the venerable BusinessPundit (co-founder of this carnival), writes about Google’s focus on engineers, and the fact that good techonology does not always equal good business.
• George of Fat Pitch Financials writes about why he studies Warren Buffet.
• David Gerstman of Soccer Dad writes about why there is no such thing as free health care.
• Abnu of Wordlab writes about putting the Coke back in Christmas (the brown stuff, not the white stuff).
• Ed of Blawg Review writes about the TechnoLawyer eBook.
• Tony Gill of the Gill Blog writes about Mitigating Economic Impact of Pandemics.
• Scott Scheule of Catallarchy (a must read blog) writes about whether or not laws against suicide are economically efficient.
• The Big Picture Guy writes about planning the details of a company-wide layoff.
• Adrian Savage of The Coyote Within writes about the Dark Horses top executives like to believe they can find during performance appraisals.
• Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends writes about valuable new survey data on selling To small businesses. She also provides a survey you can take here.
• David Foster of Photon Courier writes about Fred Brooks, pioneering software executive and author of “The Mythical Man-Month,” on executive decision-making.
• Mike Landfair of Mover Mike writes about excerpts and comments re: a transcript posted at Le Metropole Cafe of a lecture by Dr. Kurt Richebächer at the International Precious Metals & Commodities Fair in Munich, Germany.
• Adam of the modestly named, Sophistpundit, writes about a proposal for a new business model for mainstream news reporting.
• Michael Cale of Financial Methodswrites about how full valuation of pension liabilities could result in stock price drops.
• Steve Bainbridge of the famed ProfessorBainbridge.com writes about the groupthink phenomenon, to explain the White House’s failure to exercise critical judgment in some recent cases.
• Mike Pechar of Interested Participant (a must read blog), writes about how the Norwegian government is requiring all boardrooms be 40 percent female.
• TT of Retire at 30 (too late for me) writes about the “I want now” generation.
• And last but not least, yours truly writes about why Washington so often fails to offer good solutions for technologically related industries.

  Well, that’s it folks. Check out next week’s carnival at Coyote Blog. Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Birthday to me. See y’all next year.

  

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