“the tool of the future” linklings
I’m trying out a new service by diigo (mentioned to me by another blogger who I will refrain from naming until I figure out that this service works) that allows you to create roundup posts like this one on the fly. Let me know how it worked. It’s pretty easy to use, so if you do link roundups it’s worth a shot. I actually like service – it’s basically Digg with more features.
Links
How Do You Plan To Get Ahead? Ways To Increase Your Income
- Once again I’m linking to a Digerati Life post – this time it’s a list of ideas about ways to increase your income – and everyone needs that, don’t they? While I’m not sure I agree 100% with all of these ideas, there’s a lot of food for thought here.
22 Money Maximizing Moves You Can Do Today | Moolanomy
- This is a great list. I think I do all of them – but seeing them put together in one place is a great idea. Checklists actually allow you to divert your attention to other things by making sure you haven’t forgotten the simple stuff.
Where Am I Going With All This? | How I Will Be Rich
- Matt at How I Will Be Rich has some thoughts similar to mine on the evolution from personal finance blogger to motivational blogging. I realized that it wasn’t exactly personal finance I was interested in, but the motivation behind seeking wealth. I am not really interested in money or wealth anymore, per se – I am interested in having the wealth to achieve freedom.
Tracking Dividend Hikes Is Not Easy But it Can Be Done
- I would actually like a site that provided a lot of information about dividends, since I think dividends are a great measure of a company’s worth in terms of investment. While basically arriving at the opinion that there aren’t any really good resources, the Dividend Guy has a few good suggestions on researching dividends.
Carnivals
Personal Development for The Next 45 Years: Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 17
My post on 67 ways to outlive 106 billion people was included at the Personal Development and Happiness Carnival, which is definitely worth checking out.
The Carnival of Personal Finance at Moolanomy
My post, nay, epiphany (I can’t believe I used that word) on High Quantity versus High Quality was included at the Carnival. Moolanomy is a great blog, and if you haven’t been reading it you should. There are a lot of great submissions here and although the carnival’s gotten intimidatingly large it’s worth browsing through!
Public Declarations
What’s your public declaration? – Smart Spending
- Smart Spending at MSN picked up on the public declaration meme. I was really thrilled to see the meme picked up by Smart Spending!
a public commitment : plonkee money
Plonkee has a great idea for a public commitment: she resolves to not buy another piece of un-fairly traded chocolate. I have to be honest, I didn’t even think about this, but now I have another thing to worry about… but it’s true that I don’t want to buy chocolate that’s hurting people while I enjoy it. This extends (for me) to tea and coffee. I struggle with coffee particularly because my favorite brand is exceptionally unfair-trade. Stupid corporations, eh?
LifeEdit also joined the meme by making a public declaration to eliminate her debt in one year’s time. I also really liked this post about 10 tips to improve your life in 5 minutes. Sometimes that’s all it takes…
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Aaah something to make link posts easier. I’m gonna have to check it out.
Thanks for mentioning my commitment. I had some delicious fairtrade chocolate yesterday, and have avoided all the unfair ones so far.
Congratulation on being picked up by Smart Spending. Every time I come here, the blog grow by another inch. That reminds me, I still owe you the public declaration. I think I finally know what I am going to write.
And thank you for the outstanding endorsement of Moolanomy!
Cool, I’ll have a look at diigo and see how it goes.
Thanks for the mention (and thus continued motivation to keep our goal on track). I have taken a really hard look at our situation and it appears that our line of credit can (and now will) be paid off by the end of February 2008 – this is a sizable chunk of our debt and it feels truly liberating to be able to make a difference in such a short amount of time.
As I’ve said before, a fantastic idea for a meme!
Interesting…. I shall have to check out this tool! Funny how the name they used for the service was basically swiped…;)
I must read up on your “how to outlive everyone else” post.
Thanks for the link. You’ve been so generous linking to my posts. I really appreciate it. I’m going to go check out diigo for my round up this week.
I also wanted to thank you for turning me on to SkellieWag. That site really is great.
I just used diigo for my last post and it actually worked out really well. I think it’s a keeper.
Thank you for the link – I too have looked at diigo before but never used it – I may just have to for my weekly roundups.
The Dividend Guy