Each day, I get hundreds of emails and even more messages on various social networks. Sometimes they are from friends highlighting one new site or another. Others are from public relations professionals hoping that I’ll write something nice about their latest clients. Sometimes there are blog posts that catch my attention that should be highlighted.

I flag them in my email client. I add them to a wiki that I use for tracking interesting topics. I send emails to various people and wait for replies. Many never make it to a full blog post, but some should be highlighted whether or not they will ultimately end up as a full blog post. With that, I want to provide another glimpse into my blogger’s notebook.

Google Adwords

Mar Matthias Darin, whom I first stumbled across via EntreCard has a blog post up about Google being sued for overcharging AdWords customers. Actually, this was a lawsuit from back in 2005 which received class action status and was ruled on earlier this month. I may have also gotten an email about this, but my adwords advertising has been so small it probably isn’t worth the first class postage to join in the settlement.

This Moment

My brother invited me to join him on ThisMoment.com. It is a site to ‘save and share life’s moments’. I tried to join, but was told that it only works for Firefox 3 or IE 8. I’m running Windows NT with Firefox 2 on my primary computer. It is a very old computer that just isn’t worth upgrading, and every once in a while, I run into issues like this. I signed up on my laptop without a problem, and it sent an email to my main computer for verification. I couldn’t even verify my email address with Firefox 2. It did have a link to continue without upgrading. This link did not work. I fired off a comment, and received a prompt reply. The link appears to be working now and I was told that my email address was properly verified. I’ll explore this a bit more later.

MaYoMo

Another interesting site that I received an email about was MaYoMo, Map Your Movements. It is aimed at citizen journalists and there should be news coming soon about it. I’ve sent an email asking for follow up about it, but haven’t received comments yet. Initially, it seemed very slow and kludgy for me, but they look interesting.

Mornflake

An old friend of mine in Britain sent me an email about his blog post about Mornflake’s Video Competition Mornflake is using a site called uVizz. That’s another site worth checking out, although I probably won’t make a Mornflake video unless someone sends me a box of their cereal from the U.K.

BurstMedia

Jarvis Coffin, CEO of BurstMedia. Mr. Coffin wrote a blog post about how Advertising must feel the human condition. It was in response to my blog post, Numerati, Creatives, and the Human Condition. He did a good job of taking the ball I was running with, and carrying it a little further down the field. I’ve been meaning to pick up that thread and talk more about his comments, but just haven’t gotten a chance to yet.

Ruth Madoff and Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5W Public Relations

Today, I received a brief email from Lauren Bishop of 5W Public Relations highlighting Ronn Torossian’s comments about Ruth Madoff’s Statement. Lars Toomre, with whom I’ve done a lot of financial services work, wrote a blog post about Ruth Madoff back in March. It seems to fit nicely with what Ms. Bishop has written about Mr. Torossian’s comments, and perhaps I’ll find some time to follow up on this a little later.

Group Psychology of Twitter

The other day, I received a fascinating email from Peter Howie who writes the Moreno Collegium Blog. It explored the nature of how groups behave and related it to discussions in Twitter. I really want to find a chance to explore this a bit further. I’ve also started to explore the streaming API for Twitter, especially as it relates to efforts to connect Twitter to various Complex Event Processing systems like Streambase.

SIFMA

Personally, I found the discussions about CEP and Twitter one of the more interesting topics at this year’s SIFMA conference. I have a lot to say about the SIFMA show on several topics. This remains on my blogger’s notebook, and it isn’t likely to be very friendly to the organizers at SIFMA. The folks listed above understand how the world is changing and it seems like the folks at SIFMA don’t.

There are plenty of other stories that I’m following, but this highlights a few of them. So, tell me, what do you find interesting? Is there something I should have on my radar that I don’t yet?