The Digerati Life

The 2007 Performancing Awards Reader’s Choice Poll is up and aching for your votes. Several blogs that I read on a regular basis are on this poll and I was quite pleased that one of my network buddies made it to the list as well: Lazy Man and Money.

I have a few favorites under the “Best Business/Money Blogs” section, particularly Lazy Man’s blog, The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly, and I see them well-matched against everyone else in this top-notch list. Congratulations to you guys!

In the “Best Use of a Corporate Blog” section, the Prosper Blog is up as a nominee as well. Coming into 2008, I’ll be one of their contributing writers so…uhh… I guess you know who I’ll be voting for here :D. Don’t forget to catch some of my write ups at this blog going forward!

Good luck to all the blog candidates!

Personal Finance Reads

• The Simple Dollar: Should personal finance writers practice what they preach? I can see how a writer’s actions can betray their words thus potentially questioning their integrity. But there’s a lot that goes into making financial decisions that readers may not realize through someone’s writings. This is definitely one of the challenges of writing about personal finance.
• Lazy Man and Money: Lazy Man and I seem to be on a fairly similar path as per his 2008 goals: we both want to ditch our corporate software development careers, we both want to learn Ruby on Rails and our net worths are treading water. Oh yeah, we’re also neighbors.
• Money Smart Life: Did you make money through eBay last year? Check out this article to find out if you need to pay taxes on your eBay earnings.
• Gen X Finance: If oil and gas prices are getting you down, how about looking into offsetting the costs by investing in this sector?
• The Sun’s Financial Diary: Sun reviews his net worth in great degree complete with several charts and an analytical eye. He is somewhat concerned about the current downward trend revealed by the numbers.
• Consumerism Commentary: Flexo presents four factors that determine the value of a coin. In summary, they are: condition, rarity, bullion value and demand. Some nice info here about coin collecting.
• My Money Blog: How about jumpstarting your 2008 with a quick financial checkup? This’ll only take 5 minutes per activity.
• Five Cent Nickel lists the CNN/Money top most common financial goals and New Year’s resolutions that readers have made. This year, paying down debt tops the list.
• Blueprint For Financial Prosperity: Do you ignore your problems or sweep them under the rug? I tend to procrastinate when I’m faced with things that I’m afraid to deal with; it’s a bad habit I’m trying to curb.
• Mighty Bargain Hunter: Here are some interesting takes on how to value our time. Various writers have given their two cents on how to calculate how much our time is worth.
• Free Money Finance: I can’t believe how much loose change can actually add up!
• All Financial Matters: Here’s one of those great mathematical demonstrations that show us what it takes to recover from an investment downturn. Just like compounding, it’s one of those things that doesn’t seem very obvious.
• No Credit Needed: Read about this inspiring update from Tricia at Blogging Away Debt, whose debt has been shaved off by 50%!

Additional Readings Around The Web

• how to talk to your teenager about personal finance @ Brip Blap
• High Dividend Stocks and the Risk and Reward Balance @ The Dividend Guy
• Scoff All You Want At New Year’s Resolutions @ Money Smarts
• Credit Card Companies Want to Eat You Alive! @ Being Frugal

Recent Carnivals

Carnival of Financial Goals #2 - A Walk With Sam: thank you to Sam, Lynnae’s 5 year old adorable son, for hosting this edition of the carnival!