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Welcome to this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists. It’s supposed to be about excellent quality, highly relevant posts. If I really kept only the very best, there would be under ten entries included. Perhaps Steven Silvers was onto something last week. Oh well; I’m a softy I guess.

Here’s one at Dispatches From Blogblivion musing about the sometimes conflicting pricing pressures of inflation, costs, competition and market expectations.

Gameproducer.net wonders should you burn the ships? That is, leave yourself no escape so you’ll try harder.

Green Rising thinks Coca-Cola’s new direction in charitable activity – which is really marketing activity in a somewhat communistic sounding form – marks a big improvement for Coke and the targets.

Sophispundit talks about diminishing returns and economic pressure.

Apparently League Tables are a big yet problematic thing in investment banking, as The Epicurean Dealmaker attempts to explain.

Ideas in Progress on illegal aliens, robot mowers, automation and productivity.

Anti-corporate forces using amateur video? Steven Silvers notes the latest platforms make it easy and inevitable.

The BFU Journal compares the startup approaches of entrepreneurs and MBAs.

Econbrowser examines a study of the macroeconomic effects of tax changes.

Wally Bock makes the case for firing, despite the lawsuit-happy climate.

Find the hidden talent you already have in your organization. Blog Business World says it’s well worth it.

Perhaps you should Break the Shackles and profit from China’s massive railroad expansion.

This one borders on Personal Financial Advice, which is off-topic, but starting a business with pocket change is an interesting concept.

Businesspundit has tongue in cheek advice for how to sound smarter than you are. He asks:

Do we care less about what people do and more about what people say? We want to reward people for performance, but do we sometimes build corporate cultures that encourage BS more than anything else?

Speaking of productivity and specialization, along the lines of another post above (and the one following this), Political Calculations talks about the division and diversification of labour, comparing it in part to portfolio diversification.

Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog would have arguably my favorite submission of the week even without having mentioned the James P. Hogan classic Voyage From Yesteryear. He takes on the topic of Zillow.com, the age of abundance, and anti-consumer conspiracy by anti-capitalist “business” people.

Finally, Small Business Buzz compares men and women as entrepreneurs. I was thinking of ordering business cards from GreatFX, sponsor of Small Business Buzz, which is an excellent example of blogging as a promotional tie-in to a business, since I know them through CotC. It looks like I can’t readily get what I want, ironic because it’s simple, without going local. Perhaps next time…

That’s it for this week’s edition. Next week’s host will be The Integrative Stream.

The latest Carnival of the Capitalists, the October 30 edition, is up for your eclectic business reading enjoyment.

If business blogging interests you, check out Carnival of the Capitalists each week, including the latest; the October 23rd edition hosted by Blawg Review.

You might also enjoy CommerceBucket, along the same lines, but operating on an ongoing basis and inviting anyone’s participation.

Do you think that using the word “geek” or “geeks” as part of a business name is overdone? Does it have negative connotations due to bad experiences with established companies that are Geek something or something Geeks or whatever? If so, is that so severe that a newcomer couldn’t overcome it and create their own connotation in a target audience?

The April 11 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is up at TJ’s Weblog, featuring a specially selected set of twenty links.

Here are the entries that were not included:

DAtum
WOLves
Fresh Politics
Blog Business World
The Unrepentant Individual
Political Calculations
Random Thoughts From A CTO
Steve Pavlina’s Blog
Spooky Action
Conservative Cat
BPWrap – A Different Point Of View
The Other Bloke’s Blog
voluntaryXchange
The BUFFALOg
Roth & Company Tax Update
Pro Wrestling Impact
The Skeptical Optimist
Crossroads Dispatches
Management Craft
Interested Participant
Catallarchy
Hamstermotor
Mover Mike
Mad Anthony
Goobage

Next week’s CotC will be hosted by Brian Gongol. For other future hosts and info, check out the Carnival of the Capitalists page.

Via both Steven Taylor and James Joyner, Gmail has doubled its already amazing free capacity from one to two gigabytes as it turns a year old. This right on the heels of Yahoo increasing its mail storage to one gigabyte to be competetive.

Respectively, they linked articles about it here and here. I think there’s something slightly ironic about reading the news via Yahoo.

HP now has in-house blogs. Always an interesting thing to see a major company opening up the communication lines that way.

The March 7 Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Blogcritics, for your business and economics reading pleasure. Plus some about blogging, and particularly blogging for business.

The latest Carnival of the Capitalists is up in a well organized post at Coyote Blog. You may find items of interest linked there.

It’s particularly cool that there’s a new way to submit entries to Carnival of the Capitalists and a ton of other similar roundups of topical links. It’s the “Carnival Submit Form.”

First, some catching up I need to do. As a one time host of Carnival of the Capitalists, it behooves me to link regularly as each week’s new edition comes out. Oops.

Oh well.

This week’s CotC, the February 21 edition, is at The Raw Prawn.

Last week’s, the February 14 edition, was at Weekend Pundit.

The February 7 edition was at Catallarchy.

The January 31 edition was at Ashish’s Niti.

Finally, the January 24 edition was at Business Opportunities Weblog.

Phew, all caught up!

As for next week’s edition, it will appear at Coyote Blog.