EgoTV has a pretty good infographic breaking down the numbers.

“New Year’s Day is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
—Mark Twain

The other day I pointed you to a batch of free books for your ereader. Here’s a roundup of 10 posts that strive to choose the best business books of the year, just in case you have some extra bucks to spend after your holiday sopping and want to load up your device … or, if you’re some kind of Luddite, your actual bookshelf.

AdAge lists 10 marketing books you should have read.

Windmill Networking presents the 25 best social media books of the year.

American Public Media’s Marketplace allows a half-dozen or so writers and pundits to choose their favorites.

American Express OPEN Forum offers book reviewer Matthew May selecting his favorite 15.

Strategy + Business chooses some of the best marketing books of 2011.

Library Journal has a list.

The American Marketing Association names two books you ought to read.

The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) offers a list that’s geared to small businesses.

Heinz Marketing has a list of 10.

Top Rank Online Marketing Blog chooses the top online marketing books … of 2012.

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: Ring in 1958 with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.

A coupla recent Mashable posts worth noting: Here’s one that promises 7 surefire ways to increase your Klout score, and here’s one that introduces you to Kred, since you’ve finally sorta kinda gotten Klout all figured out, which means it’s time to introduce something else similar but different.

The seventh surefire way to increase your Klout score pretty much sums up why articles like that are entirely pointless (irony alert!), and why you may or may not need to pay any real attention to Kred:

Don’t be discouraged by your score. It’s more important to just enjoy your social media experience and let the chips fall where they may.

Exactly.