CardRatings.com Highlights: New Credit Card Deals

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

Best of spinme.com: The influence of music + the power of offline

Two of my recent spinme.com posts have kicked up plenty of discussion in the past few weeks. Coming back from break, I wrote about the importance of moving through the world with a bias for offline networking. Friends and I were talking about how, Continue Reading

Five Surprising Credit Card Bills

And no, they're not mine. We're still on a roll with some fun credit card lists over at the CardRatings Blog. This time, we wanted to find a few of the wildest things anyone had ever bought with a credit card. Our search turned up a historic dinner, Continue Reading