This guy is shocked that he can't find amazing people right off the bat. Many businesses nowadays expect great people off the rack without putting any resources into them, but that's not the way...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/11/folks-dont-want-to-hire-anyone-complain.html
about an etsy blog about the horrors of coral. Personally, I think that the article should have run with a disclaimer that this is just one random person's opinion and not the opinion of etsy...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/10/people-are-pissed.html
This edition has two in the queue and two at home: In the queue: Season 2 of Mad Men : I finally watched the first season of Mad Men. Kiki's Delivery Service- the classic Miyazaki film. On...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/10/four-in-queue.html
Facebook is sort of awkward. It doesn't aggregate information like I like. When online, I want floods of information and opinion. I can look at facebook for a few minutes. "Yes, that's a cute ba...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-like-twitter-more-than-facebook.html
Stackbucks rolls out reusable coffee sleeves. after small crafters have had them for years. I also noticed Keep Calm and Carry On items at Barnes and Nobles after the big trend was created onli...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/09/big-companies-get-ideas-from-little.html
I liked this article about the vibrant informal economy in Narobi. A lot of people have the idea that the economy is built from the top down- big business creates jobs, etc. But the truth is tha...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/08/vibrant-african-maker-economy.html
And what I'm happy about is fresh basil. I could bathe in the scent. I love the leaves growing so large, some as large as my middle finger. They are the only things that have done well this ye...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-happy-black-girl-day.html
This new feature in my blog is called 4 in the queue, in which you are privvy to my embarrassing media habits. At #1 is Toy Story 2. I have seen every Toy Story movie but this one, as the fir...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/07/4-in-queue.html
This post on etsy as a business incubator. I've meant to blog about this for a long time, but now I think I might take a stab at it. I wanted to say something about how I'm not seeing etsy as a ...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/07/im-still-rolling-this-over.html
OK, I'm not a homemaker, radical or otherwise I'm just a childless slacker. I attempt to get by with a minimum of expenses, but I just realized that I don't know how to cook purple hull peas....
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-also-suck-as-radical-homemaker.html
Viz has slashed its workforce and is now looking for interns. I have to wonder if the value of the internship has lessened. After these folks are done working for free, will they really be ab...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/07/viz-looks-for-interns.html
I can see why the Kin is being discontinued. I love social networking, but 'a phone to manage your social life'? Really? What people want with a phone is versatility- we play games, go on twitte...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/kin-is-dead.html
The race to the bottom for the cheapest wages, massive unemployment, and a lack of concern for the environment? We spend a lot of cash throwing it at big rich companies and people and hoping ...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-this-model-sustainable.html
A lot of folks try to run on championing small businesses, but I want to know what sort of small businesses we are touting as the backbone of America? Are we touting the sort who exploit undo...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/small-business-and-being-good-neighbor.html
Are big city markets draining small local markets? I don't know. In Memphis, we have about five farmer's markets in the area, and sometimes I find that it's cheaper to go to the farmer's mark...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/rural-farms-urban-farms.html
I wish I was a cheapskate! One of the issues keeping me from being a cheapskate is that I have a great difficulty resisting sales. Give me a coupon for 40% off, slash the price of remainder b...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-wish-i-was-cheapskate.html
Warning: All links have American Appeal style photos on them. Gawker has a humorous list of their grooming standards. Also notice that the female example photos are mostly from the porno aesth...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/oh-american-apparel.html
Inspired by the book Obsessive Consumption , a sweet little volume full of adorably rendered pictures of products, which delighted me both with its banality and the fact that she has fun hips...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/blogging-consumption.html
The culture of cheap is discussed in volume. I think part of the issue is that a lot of the 'cheap' stuff is folks getting their 10,000 hours of practice in publicly . So their amateur work i...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/06/worth-of-work.html
Arcade Fire!!! is offering their new album preordered for 7.99. Bravely, they are releasing the digital with an option to have just plain MP3s. I prefer plain MP3s- the use of them is a big reas...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-time-for-squee-and-expensive.html
Words in bold are hers: HeyMichelle Etsy Admin HeyMichelle says: Hmmm, this is a question I've been pondering over all day. I think it's a definition that we will have to hone to be right fo...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/05/heymichelle-speaks.html
There's apparently a huge furor about mature items in Treasury East , apparently the listings will be filtered out or something and there are petitions on the internet about this. BTW: admin a...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/05/mature-treasuries-on-etsy.html
run your shop as a business. Even if you're doing it just for fun, with the recession on, it's important not to lose money on each sale. The web of small business is such that with our sales we ...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/05/upshot-of-this-thread-is.html
but I'm exhausted. So I link you to this black love tumblr. , and a headband I wish I had from etsy. Oh yea, and the award winning game Portal is now avaliable for free ! I have a cool new toy, ...
http://buttonmakersball.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-happy-black-girl-day.html
One more "soup nazi" comparison & I'll scream. Yes, we're small & limited on what we can do. No, I don't think this makes us "nazis" :(less than a minute ago via web MUDDY'S BAKE SHOP muddys...