Welcome to the December 15, 2006 weekend edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only weekly review of the best business, management and money-related posts from each of the week's major blog carnivals! Each week, we select not only the best posts from each of the blog carnivals we read, but we also select one post as being The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM) But that's not all! We also recognize the close contenders for the best post of the week that was, which you'll find identified below as Absolutely essential reading!^(TM)

If you're anxious to get reading this week's edition, go ahead and scroll on down since this section is a quick "how not to run a blog carnival" editorial.

For those of you who are regular readers, or perhaps contributors to blog carnivals, odds are that you're familiar with the work of one-man-blogging-carnival-industry ringmaster, Bryan C. Fleming. Bryan's niche in the world of blog carnivals is to generate web traffic for several web sites he operates. Now, there's nothing wrong with that and normally, he does a pretty decent, but not stellar, job for the carnivals he assembles. After all, putting together a blog carnival does take a bit of work, and many of us who take on the job on a regular basis will develop or rely on systems that have been set up to automate a good part of the process, which Bryan clearly does.

This week though, things were clearly on autopilot in the Bryan C. Fleming universe of blog carnivals, as this week's Festival of Investing featured these contributions (from a truly good blogger whose work we've previously featured, and who probably thought there might be a real-life person organizing the carnival somewhere in that alternate universe):

Silicon Valley Blogger presents A First Look At Asset Allocation posted at The Digerati Life.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents A First Look At Asset Allocation posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “My apologies for the double submission — I had entered the wrong email address and wasn’t sure if my post would make it to your carnival so I resubmitted. I am sorry for the inconvenience and hope you will consider my post. Thank you very much! - SVB”

Priceless. And now, onto the best posts of the week that was....

On the Moneyed Midways for December 15, 2006
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Entrepreneurs	Trust Tip 7: Returning Calls Unbelievably Fast	Trusted Advisor	Being there, as in quickly returning customer calls (or organizing blog carnivals!), really matters in building trust according to Charles H. Green.
Carnival of Fraud	Is DELL Cooking the Books?	Stock Market Beat	Accounting always sounds boring until potential fraud turns up! William Trent takes a closer look at how Dell is really dealing with its warranty expenses.
Carnival of Investing	Investment Risk Tolerance: What's Yours?	Personal Finance Advice	Are you ready to take a quiz? Are you ready to take five quizzes? Jeffrey Strain challenges you to find out what your true tolerance for risk might be!
Carnival of Personal Finance	Baseball Cards Can Teach Your Kids About Stocks	Finance-4-Kids	Ever wonder how to drive home lessons about investing for kids? Finance-4-Kids finds baseball cards might be a good place to start.
Carnival of Real Estate	The Six Stages of the Long-Term Real Estate Play	Active Rain	Brian Brady identifies the stages that the hottest ex-urbs go through on their way from hidden value to realized investment returns.
Carnival of the Capitalists	How to Layoff 2,000 People	Passion, People and Principles	If you have no choice but to layoff 2,000 people, how would you do it? David Maister argues its best to do so quickly since it makes the effects less personal. Also see Charles Green's "Pfizer, Doctors, Sales and Trust".
Economics and Social Policy	Pfizer, Doctors, Sales and Trust	Trusted Advisor	Charles H. Green's post served as the starting point for David Maister's "How to Lay Off 2,000 People" post elsewhere in this week's edition of OMM. Absolutely essential reading!
Festival of Stocks	Investing in the Growing Dental Industry	BioHealth Investor	Did you know that dentistry is booming? H.S. Ayoub, DMD, examines investment opportunities in the world of dental care.
Home Business Carnival	How to Perform a Professional Analysis of Your Competition	Buzzle	Jim Hart talks through a three prong strategy for analyzing your competition. Absolutely essential reading!
Personal Development Carnival	Your Business Blogger at Stern School of Business	Reasoned Audacity	Jack Yoest shares the Cliff Notes version of what he lectured about to a group of budding entrepreneurs at NYU.
Personal Development Carnival	Serious Tips to Help You Get Over Your Ex	Levnnow Self-Help Tools	Is there someone in your life for whom you've needed to sever all contact because it's not good for you? Tabs offers advice on how to move on successfully.
Personal Growth Carnival	They've Brainwashed Us	GameProducer.net	Juuso notes that while it's easy to question everybody else, it's a heck of a lot of work to question yourself. If you're going to ask yourself some tough questions, it might help to acknowledge that you've been brainwashed.
Real Estate Investing	The Most Effective Tool an Investor Can Use!	Cash Flow Treasures	If you're a real estate investor, Steve Burns has identified the best tool for you to use in researching your opportunities: the Recorder's Office!
Wealth Building Ideas	There Is a Science to Get Rich	Emmanuel Oluwatosin: Inspiring Excellence, Realising Ambitions	Why does it seem like like things are only working for some people, while others are left far behind? Emmanuel Oluwatosin answers the question in The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Working at Home	Are You Really Helping?	Success from the Nest	Lots of people assume they know what their customers want, but Tony Clark says that may not be so true. Absolutely essential reading!

Just for the record, the members of Bryan C. Fleming's universe of blog carnivals include:

• Festival of Investing (hosted at Investing World Today)
• Personal Growth Carnival (hosted at Bryan C. Fleming)
• Wealth Building Ideas (hosted at Wealth Building World)

Previous Editions

• On the Moneyed Midways – December 15, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – December 9, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – December 1, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 24, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 17, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 11, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 3, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 27, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 13, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 6, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 30, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 23, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 15, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 8, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 1, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 25, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 19, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 11, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 4, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 29, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 14, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 7, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 30, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 23, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 16, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 9, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 2, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 26, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 19, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 12, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 5, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 28, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 14, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 7, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 31, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 24, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 31, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – St. Patrick's Day 2006 Edition
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 10, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways - The inaugural edition from March 3, 2006!

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