Carnival of the capitalists on the Outsourcing Weblog

Filed in archive Believe It or Not on July 10, 2004

Please enjoy the following hand selected, outstanding entries in this week's carnival.

• Lachlan Gemmell at "Software Startup" confesses - he is a lazy programmer. You might try outsourcing instead?


• Peter Caputa at "pc4media" is reflecting on Michael Moore and his hosting of the carnival last week


• Peter Davidson at "The BeConnected" analyzes the impact of the weather on corporate earnings


• Michael Williams at "Master of None" tells us more about arbitrage


• Umair Haque at "Bubblegeneration" proves why Warren Buffett's "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing'" is true for the MPAA's newest act against cinema screeners


• Dane at the "Business Opportunities Weblog" makes clear why health care suffers from bad service


• Sean Hackbarth at the The American Mind has a good piece on a tax from WWI that refuses to die


• Meanwhile ProfessorBainbridge at "ProfessorBainbridge.com" argues using the example of emerging predictive markets within firms why bureaucratic hierarchies can become vices over time


• Giselle at "OSCommerce Experts" identifies key success factors for marketing in a changing web


• LesJones at "Les Jones Blog" shows how far it has come with Supply Chain Management - to the Sock Drawer


• John Dmohowski at "Drakeview" analyzes the new digitally fluent generation (with much envy :)


• Jonathan Wilde at "Catallarchy"
  has an exciting piece why gun ownership allows individuals to partially absorb defense costs.


• Barry Ritholtz at "The Big Picture" helps us to answer the question "Why is the United States the richest nation in the world?"


• Craig Henry at "Lead and Gold" looks closer at the pitfalls that face "change agents" who are hired from outside the company.


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  Emerging Technologies


• Anita at "RFID Weblog" identifies the reality check for RFID


• Scott Allen at "Social Networking Weblog" gives more detail on monetizing social networking


• Russell Buckley at the "Mobile Technology Weblog" analyzes which impact of the ubiquitous mobile internet will have on our workplaces


• Torsten Jacobi at the "TJs Weblog" reveals his passion for subscription based business models


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  The Internet Economy


• David Foster at "Photon Courier" wonders why supposedly reputable companies that engage into Spy-/adware


• Wayne Hurlbert at "Blog Business World" tells us more why there is no real need to submit to search engines.
  
  


• Martin Lindeskog at "EGO BLOG" tells us why there is no chance that ECO BLOG is about to be burned out


• Anita at "Small Business Trends" has a interesting piece on why open source software and the lack of respect for intellectual property rights threatens to stifle innovation and entrepreneurship.

Your host at "The Outsourcing Weblog" explains the strategic part in outsourcing.

Next weeks Carnival will be at our excellent sister publication The RFID Weblog.