We’ve been mixing things up on CardRatings with our credit card news blog and a new series of feature articles. Some of my recent favorites: * The six best credit cards for parents. This ran as a Mother’s Day special, but it’s got some great ideas for Dads, too. * The five best credit cards [...]
Continue reading... March 7, 2011
Best of spinme.com: Cultural significance, microfunding, finding collaborators
I’m through the hardest part of the “remastering” process on the spinme.com books series, so I’ve been able to spend more time posting new essays to the site: “What’s culturally significant?“ I remember being part of a team that asked this question at WXPN in the late 1990s, and it crops up again today. When [...]
Continue reading... January 25, 2011
Shoprate.com Highlights: Avoid mortgage scams, eliminate rate anxiety
I contribute regularly to the “Expert Opinion” column at ShopRate.com, a site that tracks the lowest mortgage rates across the country. While my colleague, Liz Freeman, stays on top of the day-to-day mood swings of the mortgage market, I focus on more of the underlying personal finance stories that underlie our decisions to “lock or [...]
Continue reading... January 17, 2011
Highlights from spinme.com: Say “No,” Hear “No,” Sell More Music.
Things have been perking up at my music business weblog, spinme.com. I announced the Kindle/Nook versions of all four of my books, along with a sneak preview of the fifth book in the spinme.com series, Audience Supported. Some of my favorite posts from the past few weeks: Learning to hear when folks tell you “no.” [...]
Continue reading... November 20, 2010
Why we never cut the cord.
I declared victory over the need to get a cable box in the new apartment in this post from a few months back. You might be among the dozens of folks who’ve been asking me about what happened since then. Turns out, it’s not as easy as you might think to totally cut the cord. [...]
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