What I'm Reading This Week

Or more specifically, what I'm trying to read because work has gotten busy again.  Hey, I haven't done a "link post" in a while so cut me some slack.

• Where Do Bad Moods Come From? by Jonah Lehrer at Wired Science Blogs' The Frontal Cortex
• In Defense of the Selfish Parent by Catherine Connors at Her Bad Mother
• Grid-based Energy Storage: Widely Misunderstood Challenges and Opportunities by John Petersen at Alt Energy Stocks
• Why the Quest for Social Media ROI Will Never Die! And Why It Shouldn't by Kami Huyse at Communication Overtones
• Pre-Tax Purchase of OTC Drugs: A Prescription for Compromise by William Pewen at Health Affairs Blog
• Where All That Wine Is Going by Alder Yarrow at Vinography

I hope to have the time very soon for more podcasts with smart people.  Stay tuned.

In transit...

I'm on a somewhat frantic 48-hour jaunt to meet some new friends and some old friends to talk about social media and politics and stuff. I'll be tweeting a bit, and will check back in here later this week...

A Social Media Guru Challenge

Welcome to 2010 - and while I'm busy with work stuff already, I've thought of the perfect new year's resolution for social media PR types like myself.

I'm going to try to go without ridiculous metaphors for 6 months.

It will be like a Red Sox fan avoiding the words, "Yankees suck."

(That's a simile, not a metaphor, people. Look it up.)