Everyone loves to start the new year with a full bag of fresh ideas. You don’t need to spend a bomb on a consultant. There are more nuggets of wisdom from marketing mavens than you can possibly consume, right there online. You just need to know where to look.

Fortunately, Advertising Age ^[1] keeps a list of the top 150 media and marketing blogs ^[2], determined by an aggregate of search engine and traffic rankings. Lots of good stuff here from some very clever people. The top ranked blog? Your mate and mine, Seth G.

Some great summer reading to help you hit the ground running in 09.

* By the way, I just saw this. Someone has released a Firefox add-on called Pirates of the Amazon ^[3]. When installed, users surfing Amazon.com ^[4] see a “download 4 free” button on all Amazon products that are available for download (illegally) on the BitTorrent tracker site, The Pirate Bay. How brash. This is, indeed, the golden age of media piracy. At least until someone over-reaches and it all gets shut down.