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Seriously people

Hella — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:58:13 +0000

Please:

Give me a little bit of time to respond to your request to be added
Provide the full name of your school if you are an MBA student (there’s more than one UT, people!)
Be an individually published, or small group written, blog
Do not have tons of advertisements all over your site
Be MBA-focused–if you have a fair number of off-topic, non-business school related posts or categories or maintain a more general blog, you will not be included
Have a decent amount of content. New blogs or those with only a few posts will not be immediately added.
Have patience (see #1!)

Request backlog now flushed

Hella — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:00:06 +0000

If you have submitted a request to be added and do not see your blog in the list, you might want to reconsider if it’s primarily MBA-focused, individually written by 1 author, not a general admissions resource website, and not loaded with advertising. There are some exceptions, but they are rare.

Winter blog list update

Hella — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:59:16 +0000

All pending requests to be added to the mba blog lists have been processed. If you are not appearing, you might want to check and see if your feed is valid. Remember, blogspot, wordpress.com, and most RSS 2.0 formats are supported. Feedburner and other aggregates are not supported and I will not add them.

Also, if your content is stale, only very loosely MBA-related, or appears that it exists only to support referral links, you are unlikely to be added.

A kind reminder

Hella — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:04:55 +0000

Before posting a comment or emailing me asking to be added to one of the blog lists, you should review your content and make sure you’re not writing about a lot of off-topic stuff, have a good bit of history (you didn’t just start blogging), and that you are courteous in your request.

All comments go into a moderation queue. Once I add you to the list, you’ll see your comment appear. I do get an email as soon as you comment, but I do not act on them immediately. Generally I take care of it several times a week. If many weeks have gone by and you don’t see yourself in the list, check above :-)

Also keep in mind that I maintain these lists and the software behind them. Not all blog feed formats are supported, but the most common (Blogger and WordPress) work just fine. Feedburner will not work. Other fancying up probably won’t either. I’m sorry if your format doesn’t work, but it’s time intensive to support new types and it’s unlikely that many others would benefit.

A bit of emphasis

Hella — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:22:31 +0000

I’ve had several requests recently from blogs that have a single short post or only a very few recent and also very short posts. Please be aware that I will not add these type of blogs right away. From my last post:

I regularly trim the list so that the server doesn’t continuously query up and analyze sites that do not have recent content. Please, build up a bit of content before posting a comment here asking to be listed.

If you ask to be added and haven’t been, consider your content.

Do you have more than a few posts?
Has your blog existed for more than a few days
Is your blog focused on MBA-related topics?

If you do not answer yes to all three questions, “here’s your sign”.

Spring cleaning on the blog lists

Hella — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:46:19 +0000

It’s that time of year again … I’m cleaning up the MBA blog lists. Slowly, I’m going through and looking to see which sites are still active. For those that are not, I’m marking them as inactive so it doesn’t slow down the feeds. Let me know if you need to be added back by following these instructions. Thanks.

Server move, blogger issues

Hella — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:44:43 +0000

I’ve moved my webhost from Australia to America but most of the issues have been ironed out (save a few timezone peculiarities). However, there is an issue with ATOM feeds, so I mass updated all blogspot.com blogs and a few others to use RSS instead.

In order to be listed, you need to have a valid RSS 2.0 formatted feed. Please follow these instructions if you are no longer appearing on the list. Thanks!

Hella blog subtitle updated

Hella — Sat, 27 May 2006 01:28:14 +0000

Now that the Wharton and Philadelphia days are over, this blog’s subtitle has been renamed from “Running, Wharton, and Philadelphia living”. These days I enjoy trail running much more than road running, hence that change. I’m no longer doing my MBA at Wharton — I graduated this May. But I’ll soon be working as a strategy consultant based in the Dallas area.

If you’re looking for the MBA blog pages, they are still here:

Wawa is for celebrities

Hella — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:40:34 +0000

Several days back I mentioned that I liked some of the prepared foods at Wawa (notably their Hoagies). Well apparently the place is popular with local celebreties, too. I just came back from my neighborhood store and who was walking out as I entered?: former mayor of Philadelphia and now governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell. The cashier said he actually wasn’t surprised to see him as he comes in 1-2 times a month. Must be the Hoagies!

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Whole Foods Line

Hella — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:29:57 +0000

I walked to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle tonight after work (I was actually off in time to eat at a normal hour). I was jonesing for some hot food from the Indian bar. Well, I loaded up my green bowl and journeyed towards the prepared foods area. And then it was there … or should I say they were there. Lines. Massive. At least 20 minutes long. Ok, now this is the last time I’m going here at a reasonable hour for dinner. I tried to pay at the sushi counter but since they didn’t have a scale it wouldn’t work. I told them I didn’t want my food because it would be cold by the time I could sit down and eat it. That kind of defeats the purpose of a ‘hot’ Indian bar. Anyway.