For the lighter side of and more serious discussion of how to do consulting badly, may I suggest:
Huhcorp: We do stuff. and Compass Newsletter (see the “Naked Consulting” series).
The sort of stuff touched on on these two sites is a reason to avoid calling oneself a consultant. But I don’t have any better word yet for what I do and wanna do. I suppose, though, that if someone’s view of me is materially informed by a single word, then I’m already headed down the wrong path with that that person.