RedEye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News

I'm completely addicted to watching Fox News' RedEye... Greg Gutfeld is the pint-sized host with the super-sized wit. The rest of Fox News is marginally watchable, with non-stop drum beating about post Liberal-Zombie-apocalyptic scenarios... The Five is also worth watching.

The Writing Loft: Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days

The Writing Loft: Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days

http://www.thewritingloft.com/nonfiction.html

The course fee for Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days is a modest $67 (Writing Loft, Home Page, n.d.)

Here is the quoted description: "Ninety percent of all published writing is nonfiction. The world is clamoring information; information of any kind. Publishers are searching for authors to supply that information. Opportunities for nonfiction writers are everywhere. Those who have given it a try are making sizable incomes writing about what they already know. This class will show you how to research, write, and produce a viable draft in only 30 days.This class is for you if you've: never written before; never attempted a full-length project; have an expertise or information others would like to have; have very little time to write; [or] have a desire to write a book."

This looks like an interesting distance learning (DL) class for those who may want to start a book.

Reference

Writing Loft. (n.d.). Home page. Retrieved March 3, 2008 from http://www.thewritingloft.com/nonfiction.html

State of the FAQ – November 24, 2006

Well, it has been a crazy busy week with travel, work, and the Thanksgiving holiday. I knew this was going to be a working vacation, but there was really quite a bit to push out this week, especially on MBAFAQ. Thanks for your encouragement and I appreciate the support of our sponsors.

I hope you had a chance to keep up with the readings. In the future, I want to establish an email list to keep you updated with news and special features on the website. If you want to be added to the list, please drop me an email (please put List Request in the subject) to say hi and I’ll add your name to the list.

Some of the new features that are planned are co-authored entries with some of my outstanding students and descriptions of recent non-traditional Ph.D. research that comes to my attention. The big vision is that I’ll be inviting some of my students to co-author blog articles with me. I have asked these students based on my familiarity with their work, and if their interests parallel my own research interests in marketing, consumer behavior, and social psychology. If you know me from another context and/or you think we have comment interests, please write me to see if co-authoring is something that interests you. Finally, I’m interested in hearing from some of our regular readers about features they would like to see.

Those of you who know me from some other context know that I’m a huge fan of the online education revolution. U.S. News & World Report has a new e-Learning guide to schools that offer online MBA and doctoral degrees in business / management that you’ll want to keep handy:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/elearning/elhome.htm

This resource is a good companion to the DANTES catalogue:

http://www.dantes.doded.mil/dantes_web/danteshome.asp?Flag=True

Last Thursday, November 16, 2006, Dr. Milton Friedman passed away. This is not news to those of you who follow current events, but it was worth noting. What always impressed me about Dr. Friedman was that he labored in obscurity for many years until his ideas about free markets over government intervention and paying attention to the money supply caught on – his unorthodox ideas became orthodoxy through the boldness of his genius.

Talk to you soon!

Best wishes,

Dave

State of the FAQ – November 17, 2006

Here’s an update on events here at MBAFAQ. After listening to a few of Al Franken’s books on CD, I always wanted to make it sound like I was reporting from some important news desk in a studio somewhere, even though I’m reporting from a web page… Well, back to business. While the daily entries on MBAFAQ are generally textbook quality, I’ll try to take a day each week to write something chatty about how things are going and what is on my mind. I’m sure that these stream of consciousness entries in the FAQ will convince you that I can write poorly when necessary. ;-)

We’ve been live for one week and it has been exciting so far! There already have been over 85 visitors and over 200 page views in just one week! That is a tiny amount of traffic for an established website but huge interest for a new website. There has also been several new advertisers join, including University of San Francisco, John F. Kennedy University, St. Joseph’s College of Maine, Cornell University and Gallup University / University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Those are just a few of the advertisers. Be sure to visit these links of interest and our other fine advertisers.

Of course, you’ll probably say, “Hey, why advertising? Doesn’t that ruin the website?” Well, there is a very good reason for advertising; it helps to defray the cost of library fines and gasoline to travel to various libraries. I keep asking the librarian at UC Santa Cruz whether there is a lifetime achievement award for the largest cumulative amount of library fines paid. Of course, she just looks at me as if I’d said something almost funny.

As I mentioned in the About Me section, the goal of MBAFAQ is provide high quality articles on a daily basis that will eventually serve as a substantial resource archive for MBA alumni, newly-minted MBAs, MBAs in training, and those who have different formal training but who could benefit from some of the meat from business school.

You’re probably wondering were I get all this material. Well, I have over 300 semester hours of college training, of which 170 hours is at the graduate level. I’ve taught undergraduate and graduate students for the last several years, and they always teach me something new about the subject. In addition, I’m a speed reader, so I read quite a lot.

Please be sure to comment on threads of interest and I’ll moderate and respond to those comments.

If you are traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday, please have a safe trip and check in back here when you can. I’ll be here everyday, I hope. We are flying to Branson, Missouri and then driving to Southern Illinois for the holidays.

Talk to you soon!

Best wishes,

Dave