I haven’t had the chance to do very many of these during February… the month was filled with birthday celebrations, a vacation, and a lot of Wii in the evening since I’ve been strangely obsessed with Guitar Hero and Animal Crossing: City Folk.  But since I’ve been back from vacation I’ve seen some great stuff, so I want to share.

Forgive me, some of it will be a bit out of date.

• Geno Prussakov put together a great list of affiliate marketing events in 2009.
• California is looking into a tax for online sales.  Scott Jangro has written an open letter to the California outlining why it’s a bad idea.  I am going to take his advice and grab the letter to send myself as a resident of California.
• Read the full California Assembly Bill 178 and contact your representatives to explain why this is a bad idea for affiliate marketers in California!
• 20/20 contacted the Performance Marketing Alliance for some background on affiliate marketing for a series they’re doing on the proliferation of work-at-home schemes.  It’s good to see that they’re able to do some positive PR for the industry already… very promising since they’re off to a slow start.
• I wrote another guest post for Marketing Pilgrim, this time on The Search Engine Known as Twitter.
• If you’re at all interested in reading about my rambles about my Caribbean cruise vacation, check out my Posterous blog.

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Yes, I’m stepping closer and closer to the abyss.

Right now -  at this VERY MOMENT OF 12:32pm PST – I just turned 28.

What?  You didn’t hear anything?  Well, just imagine muffled screams mixed with maniacal laughter and you’ll be close.  I go back and forth between looking at some aspects of my life and wondering how I did so little by this age, but then I look at others and remember how hard I’ve worked to get that far so fast.

I’m takin’ the day off, so re-posting a meme type thing that Julie posted in her blog Julie’s Journal last month on her birthday.

Famous people who share my birthday

• Tom Brokaw, 1940 – Newscaster, NBC News
• Bob Marley, 1945 – Singer
• Babe Ruth, 1895 – Baseball Player, New York Yankees
• Axl Rose, 1962 – Singer, Guns N’ Roses
• Ronald Reagan, 1911 – Actor, 40th US President
• Rip Torn, 1933 – Actor
• Natalie Cole, 1950 – Singer, Daughter of Nat King Cole

Famous Events that happened on January 3rd:

• 1865- Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
• 1918- Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
• 1933- 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
• 1935- “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for 1st time
• 1974- US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
• 1981- Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon (OK, “Brady Brides” also debuted on TV the same day, but the tribute seemed more important)

Famous Capricorns

• Fredrico Fellini – Director
• Geena Davis – Actress
• John Belushi – Actor
• Wolfgang Mozart – Composer
• Opra Winfrey – TV Host
• Charles Lindbergh – Pilot
• Carl Berstein – Journalist

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In my hustle and bustle lately, I neglected to realize that I’ve been blogging “semi-pro” as I refer to it for a full year.  I went back to see some of my earlier posts from last August and was reminded of this one – Hats, Hats, Everywhere! Could it be that it was just a year ago that I was still managing PsPrint’s mailing services?  It’s also sad to say that I was “in charge of” social media marketing – a project that never took off on the company level, but I’ve obviously been running strong with it.

It feels like it’s been much longer than just a year that I’ve been at this, but I have to say that I’ve learned so much in a year that it’s incredible.  In many ways this blog as served as a gateway to that knowledge and opportunities that I’ve been given.  I’ll never be able to thank this little blog enough lol.

I wish I’d discovered Google Analytics sooner so I don’t have complete data, but thank you to the 16,000+ visitors this year that stopped by.  Thanks for spending those few minutes to check out what I’ve been spewing out there into the webverse.  I hope you’ve come by more than once.  Told your friends.  Subscribed despite my trials and tribulations in getting a freakin’ feed to work properly.  And come by despite going through three URL changes…

Stay Classy, Interwebs.

Thanks to Jim Kukral who wrote a cool birthday song for my blog!

Happy birthday to your blog.

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