So I logged onto twitter tonight after work and came to a realization — my boss David Gibbons is a twitteraholic.

…you’ll know why Obama wants to keep his blackberry so bad. And, when you are the President, you usually get what you want, so Obama will keep his Blackberry.

I’m not going to write an essay on this, though I certainly could, but I’m stoked for the Obama administration to take office tomorrow morning. The fact that the whitehouse.gov is going to get an overhaul is just one reason to be excited. Praising people across the aisle is another. Seeing a great speech in the morning is yet another. And there are at least another 10 that I won’t get into tonight….

Anyway, I’m excited to see them tackle the problems facing this country — and I am confident they will take us in the right direction.

My friend e-mailed me this photo. When this was taken, I bet this guy was thinking “SHIT…this is going to hurt!”

Jerry already posted this on myKRO.org, but I wanted to post it here to catch those of you who don’t read myKRO (feel free to subscribe!!). This is an awesome video about a loan on Kiva worth sharing.

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.

It took me awhile, but I finally posted a recap of my trip to the Dominican Republic over at myKRO.org.

I’ve been in NYC for the last two weeks, the first week for the Inman Connect conference and this past week just working from our NYC sales office. I haven’t really looked at this blog at all since I left – I apologize and hope to give it a little bit of attention next week when I’m back in Seattle.

For those looking to build a valuable personal brand for the long run, this post by Sarah Lacy is definitely worth reading.

Here are some further thoughts on personal branding I wrote back in 2007.

Here is my google analytics traffic graph over the past few months:

If you’re like me, you probably notice that big drop in early August. Right about then, my blog stopped ranking #1 in Google for my name (it’s now my Zillow profile). I think my domain was down for a few days near that time as a result of me forgetting to renew it with Dreamhost — would Google crawling a blank domain put me in the penalty box like this? Is there any way to get out of it?

I haven’t seen the WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Prices film, but I stumbled on the website today and thought I’d share the trailer for those of you who may be interested in watching it. I’m not going to rush to the video store to rent this, but I do want to watch it at some point. Who knows, maybe it’ll have a similar impact Super Size Me had on me. After watching that, I rarely, if ever, eat fast food anymore.

Here are some voices of employees who have spoken out against their former or current employer:

Oh, and for the record, I’ve never set foot in a WAL-MART store — unless my parents took me when I was too young to remember, which I don’t think they did.