My 5 year wedding anniversary is tomorrow.  It’s amazing how time flies, and how much has changed in my life in the last 5 years.  But I’m happy with where things have gone – generally.  So while I’m spending a romantic anniversary weekend in Lake Tahoe, you can chew on these links and I’ll catch you on Tuesday.

• XM and Sirius Satellite radio companies finalized their merger this week.  Details are still to come.  I really am anxious to learn what stations are surviving – I don’t want to just change the station to find that one of my favorites doesn’t exist anymore.
• Google was all set to purchase social bookmarking/sharing site Digg for the princely sum of $200 million, but looks like The Google bailed on the deal.  Are they toying with Digg?  Time will tell.
• Vertical Response posted a great idea for building your mailing list using your business cards.  Great strategy just in time for Affiliate Summit.  Remember, it’s not too late to order new cards with PsPrint.  I ordered my new batch a couple days ago and I can’t wait to see the results!
• A new forum for affiliate marketing was launched last weekend, AffSpot.com.  I joined up and I’ve been having a blast so come on over and say hi!

Have a great weekend and go rent a movie from Netflix!

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I have good news, and I have bad news.  Hopefully this will explain why I’ve been asleep at the wheel here.

First, the good!

• TrishaLyn.com is now available as a mobile compatible site!  Just point your smartphone browser to www.trishalyn.com!  Thanks to Shawn Collins & the Geek Cast crew for mentioning this nifty plugin in the last episode and Shawn specifically for sending me the link.
• Speaking of Geek Cast, I was mentioned two weeks running.  Apparently Scott Jangro and I will be the only audience members for their Geek Cast Live show from Affiliate Summit, and Lisa’s counting on me to help keep the boys in line.  Ah, good times will be had I can FEEL it!
• Affiliate Summit East 2008 is SOLD OUT and takes place in a little over a week.  I’m excited to be hitting Boston again and finally meeting some of these people I’ve been networkin’ with online since the last summit.
• Affiliate Classroom Live! is also in about a week, so I really REALLY need to get my act together and formulate some talking points for the roundtable discussion I’ll be leading.

Now, the not so great.

• I’m sad to say that after almost 2 years my beloved supervisor is leaving our company.  I’m going to miss her tremendously as she’s been a complete pleasure and joy to work for!  To be honest, I’m taking the change harder than I should because of….
• I’m moving!  Just from one city here in the East San Francisco Bay Area to another, nothing major.  It’s just that I absolutely detest packing and moving.  Luckily my husband acknowledges that I’m a weaking and useless in the actual heavy lifting, so I’m on packing and unpacking duty.
• With the change in my supervisor leaving, my job responsibilites are changing as well.  I don’t think I can say much right now, but involves some shifting in terms of my focused projects within the marketing department.

Obviously the combined changes of job responsibilities, moving, taking a long weekend vacation to celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary, and taking off for several days to attend Affiliate Summit East are all a bit overwhelming.  I hope to be rejuvinated after my vacation and be able to jump back into the swing of things with some excellent coverage of Affiliate Summit!

If you’re giving away stress balls at the summit, save one for me!!

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