My Exit Interview Part 2: Advice for Bloggers

Below is the second part of the video interview I did for Social Media Explorer. If you have been blogging for awhile, you probably won't learn much from the interview. But for newbies, it is worth a look.

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How To Become a Better Blogger By Not Reading Blogs

I've finally set up my new home on the web. Coconut Headsets is where I will blog when I leave this site. It won't be daily, and it may not even be weekly, so I encourage you to pick up…

Guest Posts For December

I have an unusually busy schedule in December, and to compensate for a much lower posting volume, I'll be taking guest posts. So whether you blog or not, if you want to write something for Businesspundit and make sure a…

The Blogging Scholarship

There is now a college scholarship available for blogging. With all the negativity sometimes heaped on "bloggers," why would anyone give them a scholarship?We believe passion is important. As the world gets more competitive, those who are passionate about what…

Business Blogging Toolset

Here is a post that you may want to take a look at if you are interested in business blogging. It lists 100 resources, broken up by category, that might be useful to any business starting a blog.

Bloggers, Boxes, and a Charity Wiki for the Superbowl

Charlie O'Donnell has a cool idea - raise money for charity with one of those Superbowl wagering games. For a donation of $10 (plus PayPal transaction fees), you get to stake claim over a box on a 10 x 10 table…

A Brief History of the Business Blogosphere (As Best I Remember It)

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Slacker Blog Free For All

Bren has decided to let anyone post to his blog today. Sounds like Bren is embracing peer production, so I guess Slacker Manager has gone Web 2.0. That should attract some nice VC investment. But seriously, go check out the…

New Blogs

Two new blogs I've been reading that might interest you... Brain Based Business, which is pretty self explanatory and Punctuative, a blog written by my friend Matt who is an analyst at a VC firm. Matt doesn't post that much, but I nag…

Two New Sites

You may want to check out Marktd, a user driven marketing site, and npost, a site that interviews lots of entrepreneurs. I have spent some time at both lately and they have some good content.

A Blogger’s Guide to the Kentucky Derby

Since the "Greatest Two Minutes in Sports" is coming up this Saturday, I thought you all might be interested in the blogger's guide to the Kentucky Derby. I second the tip "get some Derby pie." That stuff is awesome.

How To Find Topics To Blog

I could blog a lot more than I do if only there were a few more hours in a day. I keep a text file on my desktop with a list of several dozen ideas at any given time that…

WSJ Blogs

Barry Rithotlz posted a nice analysis of the new Wall Street Journal Blogs. (Law and Washington Wire are available for free). It's about time they got with the program. It's strange, but doesn't it seem like the mainstream media has…

WalMart Uses Bloggers, Doesn’t Listen to Amex or Businesspundit

Obviously no one at WalMart reads this blog. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made such a mess in coaxing bloggers to say certain things. Long time readers will remember that in October, American Express hired me to cover an event, and as…

When Bloggers Die

An interesting thing about weblogs is that they are primarily a new phenomenon and most bloggers are relatively young. Thus there haven't been many cases of bloggers dying. I've often wondered what would happen if a popular but anonymous blogger…

Business Notes

The NYT reports that the minimum wage was just increased. Inflation, anyone?

Congress may approve "the biggest overhaul of mortgage financing since the New Deal."

The government is acknowledging the suffering of business owners everywhere by raising the gas deductible by eight cents.

The Metropolitan Money Store defrauded potential foreclosure victims out of millions of dollars by setting up fake loans and inflated appraisals. Ouch.

The Fed, in a determined effort to control inflation, said today it would "strongly resist" inflationary pressures on the economy. Translation: interest rates are going up in the not-to-distant future.

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