The Blender Poll 2008 over at Joe Cartoon is a pretty good antidote to whatever it is one feels after watching some of the Sunday morning news programs. Blend away!

Earlier this week, two days of SMX Social Media conferencing happened in New York. Online Marketing Blog has a pretty good summary. Here are links to wrapups of day one and day two.

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
—Amelia Earhart

The New York Times has evidently (and finally) woken up to the idea of Bubble 2.0.

Adrants alerts us to a pretty creative piece of online “advertising” in which Wendy’s takes over the home page of Heavy.com (self-described as “one of the web’s leading consumer video companies and the leader for 18-34 year old males”) today for 12 hours.

Takeaway for marketers: Thinking online? Think outside the banner.