Weekend Reading: May 11, 2008

May 11, 2008 by Pinyo.

Happy Mother’s Day everyone. This special day makes it an auspicious start to a new week and I hope everyone has a chance to do something special for their wife and mom. The past few days were definitely interesting, and here are the highlights.

A couple of media mentions

Moolanomy received a couple of media mentions. Although most of these don’t make a huge difference in term of readership, it feels great to be noticed:

But sometimes, these mentions could bring huge wave of visitors. Karen Datko of MSN Smart Spending mentioned my frugal or cheap test in her blog post: Frugal or just downright cheap: Take the test. Her story was pushed to the front of MSN and suddenly over 5,000 visitors came to Moolanomy within minutes. Unfortunately, my blog wasn’t equipped to take that kind of volume and crashed — lesson learned. In any case, it was a great opportunity and I’d like to say thank you to Karen and the team at MSN.

The event also led me to discover a few interesting discussion forums:

A World of Personal Finance Bloggers - Map Tool

My friend Prime Time Money launched a world map based on Google Map technology to show where participating personal finance bloggers are located. It’s aptly called A World of Personal Finance Blogger. If you are a personal finance blogger, please visit the map and add your location. Here’s what the map looks like:

A World of Personal Finance Bloggers

Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs

Lynnae at Being Frugal published a list of top 10 emerging influential blogs and I made her list! I was invited to do the same thing by Influential Blogger, but I haven’t got to it yet. Here are some of the blogs on Lynnae’s list that would be on my list:

I’ll share my list later this week, and probably mention a few that I wish could be on the list but didn’t make the cut-off date.

Interesting Finds Of The Week

Here are some interesting articles I found this week.

Carnivals This Week

Here are some carnivals I participated in this week.

Here Is The Stimulus Payment Schedule

Direct Deposit Payments
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are: Your economic stimulus payment deposit should be sent to your bank account by:
00 – 20 May 2
21 – 75 May 9
76 – 99 May 16
Paper Check
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are: Your check should be in the mail by:
00 – 09 May 16
10 – 18 May 23
19 – 25 May 30
26 – 38 June 6
39 – 51 June 13
52 – 63 June 20
64 – 75 June 27
76 – 87 July 4
88 – 99 July 11

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

6 Comments

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    Janette Toral, 11. May 2008, 7:13

    Thank you very much for the kind mention of the writing project. I look forward to your entry. By the way, our week 3 summary is this Thursday. Cheers!

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    Frugal Dad, 11. May 2008, 10:27

    Thanks for including Frugal Dad in your list - I’m honored you consider me worthy of such great company!

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    Mr. Cheap, 11. May 2008, 19:24

    Thanks for the mention and link. The hermit’s life is the life for me!

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    FFB, 12. May 2008, 7:37

    Thanks for the link back to the Carnival of Money Stories!

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    PT, 12. May 2008, 21:29

    Wow. Great mention for the map. I appreciate it. Great work on the badge. Have a great week, Pinyo.

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    Pinyo, 13. May 2008, 4:43

    @Janette - No problem.

    @Frugal Dad - It’s well deserved. Keep up the good work.

    @Mr. Cheap - :-)

    @FFB - No problem.

    @PT - Looks like you are getting more participation in the map every day. Congratulation. It was a good idea.

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