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I found this through Digg. The biggest lesson here is whether you’re better off selling to the sold, which we’re all taught to do again and again, or whether the biggest returns come from looking at things in a new way. The winners (Wii-ners?) are those who change the game. Literally as well as figuratively.

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Peace
السلا
Paix
Frieden
Pace
Paz
Мир

Merry Christmas, wherever you may be today.

(Thanks to Google Language Tools)

So, yesterday, I posted a brief thing about Seth Godin and the Z List. I’ve listed the original links below, too, along with a couple of added folks. As I wrote some time back, sometimes you’re an aggregator, sometimes a creator. In a list like this, the beauty is that it’s not an either/or situation. The sites I’ve added, beginning with Anne 2.0 near the end, I both promote and endorse, fully. Great reads, all. The rest I’ll work my way through over time. Even better, you can do the work too and find the best among these for yourself. List your favorites or others I might have missed in the comments. Enjoy the list!

Creative Think
Soloride
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
One Reader at a Time
Critical Fluff
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzz
Work, in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
Troy Worman’s Blog
The Instigator Blog
AENDirect
Diva Marketing
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
Mindblob
Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
darrenbarefoot.com
Two Hat Marketing
The Engaging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com
Anne 2.0
Web Worker Daily
Occam’s Razor
Robbin Steif

Seth Godin posted this the other day. Brilliant way for building traffic and getting heard. Check out as many as you can and vote for those that resonate for you.

Just a quick post showing what I enjoyed reading the past week…

• David Armano has a great post where he shows his thoughts on the new role of design. Also, it’s got a link to SlideShare, one of the seriously cool products of the last year.
• Discussions of Google’s market share abound this past week. Mike Moran has one of the better perspectives on the subject.
• Digital Web has some interesting thoughts about microformats, which<bold prediction alert> will do in 2007 what RSS did in 2006.</bold prediction alert>
• John Jantsch (a must read), asks the brilliant question “Could you compete in the straw market?” Nothing like a healthy dose of perspective on competition now and again.
• Darren Johnson may have just helped me convince my wife we need a Wii. Thank you, Darren. As a side note, one of my favorite people in the world was the product manager for the Wii’s Opera browser implementation. Nice job, Tami.
• Finally, a shout-out to Anne, for tagging me and for generally being one of the best reads in the ’sphere.

Cheers and Merry Christmas, everyone.

Thanks, Anne. And Ellen. I really wanted to put a different spin on this, but Robbin Steif beat me to it. Feel free to play by her rules here, too, and post things we don’t know about you in the comments.

All the same, here are Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me (makes you wonder how you’ve made it this far without this, huh?)

1. I had a mullet in the ’80s. I think what’s happened to my hair since represents my penance.
2. I moved from New Jersey to Chicago, Chicago to Dallas, and Dallas to Phoenix in the span of 18 months all for a girl I’d known less than 6 months. We’ve been married for 13 years now. When you know, you know.
3. I cry like a baby at the beginning of “It’s a Wonderful Life” just knowing what’s coming at the end. I need counseling, clearly.
4. I once performed professionally as part of a choral group for audiences as large as 1,000 people on a tour of Italy. I think I spent every dollar I made on cheap Italian table wine and expensive Italian young women (I’d gotten rid of the mullet by then). While it’s a great memory, I wouldn’t trade places with the young man I was for all the money in the world.
5. I left college without a degree during my senior year to work professionally as a musician and recording engineer (see item 4). This year, almost two decades later, I finally completed my college degree.

I’m supposed to tag five folks to play along. However, I thought I’d hit two who come to mind that:

1. Haven’t gotten onboard already; and
2. Are off-topic from my typical links (expand your mind, and all that)

They are metsgrrl (who’s one of my favorite writers writing about my favorite pastime [metsgrrl respectfully declined on the grounds of her anonymity, which I can appreciate. Read her blog anyway. She’s terrific, and yes, that is a Tom Seaver reference]) and Carolyn. I’ll just have to save the rest in reserve…