Happy New Year!  As I mentioned last Friday, I’ve spent this week with family in Oregon, so I have been semi-off the grid.  So this week’s edition of Cribbed Content is as much for me to catch up on things as it is for some of you!

On a personal note, 2008 treated me okay…but I’m hoping that 2009 knocks me off my feet!  I hope your lives are treating you right and leading you in the direction you want to go!

• The movie industry doesn’t get to have all the fun with an awards season: on the heels of ShareASale announcing their awards last week, the finalists for the Pinnacle Awards Finalists at Affiliate Summit West 2009 were announced this week.  Congrats to the finalists, and we’ll see who the winners are at the awards dinner in Las Vegas.
• Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed via Twitter that PageRank was updated.  I heard about it before then and I’m glad to report that this blog has gone from a PR0 to PR2, thus reassuring me that I hadn’t landed on some mysterious Google blacklist.  As exciting as this was, it was also proven how little PR means anymore when I checked my twitter page out of curiosity to find it was a PR9!
• It’s Official: The Performance Marketing Alliance is now an official, non-profit trade association.  Charter membership will be available sometime this month, I imagine starting at Affiliate Summit.
• I wrote another guest post at Marketing Pilgrim, this time on how Digg’s Lack of Ad Targeting is Hurting Revenue.

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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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Not bad considering that I haven’t been posting a lot of good content lately.  I admit, I’ve been in a slump.  A general lack of motivation and drive has resulted in my taking days upon days off and not blogging that much here.  I’ve been spending ample time on Twitter, a good amount of time on my new fancy BlackBerry Curve, and of course doing what it is that I get paid for at PsPrint.

Actually, my hats have been expanding here.  I’ve been doing more web development on small projects to assist with our overloaded graphic services department, and I’ve been doing more development of images for our e-mail campaigns.  It’s nice to have something new and different to do every once in awhile; it definitely is something I’m very capable and willing to do and breaks up the monotony of staring at CJ weeding through affiliate applications.

I’ve also given myself a sabatical on the social networking.  I haven’t sent anything through StumbleUpon or Digg, and haven’t been stumbling or digging anything lately either.  It was getting to be too big of a distraction during the day, and trying to get everything done was a hassle.

Now it feels like things are calming down a bit now that we’re two weeks or so out from the holiday weekend and I’ll probably be picking up where I left off on the social media stuff, ramping up and collecting tips for my roundtable discussion next month.

Do you have any social media and networking tips to share?

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