Weekend Reading: August 10, 2008

Last night, I switched Moolanomy over from the custom theme I wrote to a magazine-style theme based on Mimbo by Darren Hoyt. The most significant changes occur on the front page where you’ll now see magazine layout with Lead Story and Featured section. You can also see most recent articles with a quick glance (in the middle column). Overall, I have several goals with this redesign:

1. Make Moolanomy more visually appealing
2. Reduce unnecessary links and clutters
3. Make it easier for average web users to navigate the blog

I hope I succeeded. Please let me know below if you like the change or not and any suggestion for improvement. Thank you.

Great Articles and Interesting Finds

This week great articles and personal finance finds from Personal Finance Buzz include:

1. 150+ Personal Finance Blogs: Who Are the Busiest Bloggers…and the Most Popular? at Financial Ramblings — This is a long list that shows personal finance blog by the number of subscribers, the number of articles last month, how long the blog has been in existent. The author stop short of providing correlation information among the three variables.
2. 15 ways to make $200 in 2 weeks at Christian Finance — 15 personal finance bloggers answered the same question — how to make $200 in two weeks.
3. It’s Not Only A Salary That Can Make An Employee Happy at My Two Dollars — Money is great, but there are many ways that employers can make their employees happy.
4. The Best Way I’ve Found To Truly Save Money at Prime Time Money — Automatically put away your money before you even have a chance to touch it is the best way to save money (in my opinion).
5. PF Buzz Review at The Financial Blogger — Another glowing review of Personal Finance Buzz — cool!
6. Investor Profile: David at MyTwoDollars at The Shark Investor — Do you want to know a little more about my buddy at My Two Dollars? Check out this fast and furious interview by the Shark.
7. Why You Should Care About the National Debt at Spilling Buckets — A really great and in depth article about national debt. I personally do not like being in debt, so it’s not such a great feeling to know that our country owes a whole lot of money.
8. Save Your Raise (Finance Game #1) at Harvesting Dollars — If you need a little fun and motivation to save money. Here’s a little game for you.
9. Stay Informed, Read Constantly at Penny Jobs — I am all for reading and learning, but make sure you take time in between books to apply what you’ve learned also.
10. Would you move for a lower cost of living? at Plonkee Money — I wish I could move out of NYC…

Moolanomy Retro

Here are some articles from last year:

• 7 Mistakes I Made When I Went to College
• Pay Bills Online and Save $155 Per Year
• My Kid’s College Costs will be $467,000! Are You Kidding Me?
• 6 Cool Financial Math Tricks and Rules
• 7 Costly Retirement Savings Mistakes to Avoid
• Review of NetworthIQ: Track, Share, and Compare Your Net Worth
• Powerful Life Experiences About Money
• Put Savings On Autopilot and How I Saved $250,000
• 35 Common Sense Rules for Investing
• $1 Million by 2017. What’s Your Financial Goal?
• Market Slides, Investors Hang On Tight!

Have a great Sunday and enjoy the Olympics!