Capitalism 2.0

This Blog Has Moved...

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INCORRECT:

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http://randolfe.typepad.com

CORRECT:

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I'm Moving This Blog Soon! **Update: Now Propagating**

I've been gone for over half a year now.  The world has changed, as has my time available to publish blog entries.

But I'll be starting anew with a fresh set of topics, ideas and conversations.  As such, I'll be migrating to a self-hosted WordPress on my VPS.  So, if anyone stumbles upon this, be sure your bookmark reads www.capitalism2.org instead of the typepad.com address.

Propagating..

If you linked from:

• http://randolfe.typepad.com/randolfe/
• http://randolfe.typepad.com

The new URL will soon be:

• http://capitalism2.org/blog

Capitalism 2.0, version 2.0

I'm currently in the process of redesigning Capitalism 2.0.  You may see a couple of different designs as we experiment with look & feel.  This thread will have some polls if you're interested in voting for looks you like.

Blog Traffic Patterns

Capitalism 2.0 community traffic patterns for the year.

Call for Authors

Capitalism 2.0 is currently looking for blog authors.  We're looking for folks with interesting things to write in line with the central theme of this blog:  Capitalism, version 2.0.  What that really means is sort of up to you to describe, and for others to read.  Above all else, we believe that direct publishing of mature, intellectually grounded information is rapidly becoming a fundamental force shaping our modern society, and ultimately changing the economic landscape.

General themes which tend to come up are economics, social implications of economic policy, financial markets, the role of technology, and geopolitics.  But things aren't always heavy and dry.  We like to ground our lofty ideas and heady analyses in stories about stuff we observe in the real world. 

This is no academic journal, there are plenty of those already.  Nor is this a ranting political soap box, there are even more of those.  This is a place for mature, intellectual adults to converse about stuff that matters.

Topics in the past have ranged from:

• Grass roots analysis of the largest real estate asset bubble in US history, particularly in light of the stunning silence and denial that a bubble or any problems at all existed.
• Analysis of the wildly popular virtual world Second Life and the associated, almost entirely unverified and consequently largely false media hype.
• Discussions about the falling US dollar and rising metals prices, and how that was causing everyday US coins to become worth more than their face value.
• Hypothetical discussions about advanced networks modeling group behaviors during bubbles and crashes.
• Explorations of how online computer games could be used by terrorists and organized criminals to launder money.
• Why quarterly earnings estimates should be eliminated and why financial analysts are all but useless.

...but there's more!  That's where you come in.  Write about anything you want, so long as it's mature, informed, intellectual, and relevant.  How and why it is relevant, is really up to you...

If you're interested drop me an email.

Hiatus

I've been on an extended blog-break for the past many weeks.  I'll be returning with some new weekly articles shortly.  I've been working on some very interesting projects which have spawned a lot of potentially interesting discussion topics.

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