The Monday After Christmas

Yuck…

The first day back from a nice holiday break is never really that fun. Getting back into your morning and office routine’s after waking up feeling nice and plump from a weekend full of good food and drink. (By the way I am definitely hitting the gym after work tonight for a good long workout this evening.)

I tried to distance myself from everything search over the holiday weekend and managed to barely even open my laptop. Mainly in part to a few holiday dinners and the new Nintendo Wii my girlfriends parents bought me. I am obsessed with MarioKart and will dominate anyone who wants to challenge me. (send me your Wii user # and lets do this)

So of course opening the multiple in-boxes this morning was a little bit of a shocker with a ton of email and PMs to read and dissect. A few hours later and most of my email sorted out and I can finally get to checking my Twitter account to see whats ‘Trending’ and all the buzz the day after the biggest holiday of the year.

Go figure that ‘Xmas’, ‘NYE’, and ‘MusicMonday’ are all trending today. Nothing too exciting or new.

In the world of awesome links to check out, I have a few very good reads that might stimulate some SEO strategies or goals for the final days of 2009 and 2010. Without further ado, the links:

• Very good op-ed piece from the NYTimes on net neutrality – ‘Search, but You May Not Find‘
• Want a Job at ShoeMoney Media Group?  Check out Shoemoney’s post about a performance-based blogging opportunity.
• Looks like Global Associated News is faking stories and getting them indexed in Google’s Real Time results. Danny Sullivan’s on top of it again – http://searchengineland.com/natalie-portman-is-not-dead-despite-google-32498