I’m headed out to Boston at the end of the week to attend the Affiliate Summit East 08. Here are some things you need to know about Revenue at the Affiliate Summit.

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. I hope you already got some gifts for your sweetie. If not, what the heck are you waiting for? So, once that very important task is out of the way you can move on to sharing your love and appreciation with others.

Here are some simple ideas for spreading the love. And each should take you only about 10 minutes. That’s not much time to make someone feel special.

Revenue’s November/December cover story was about search alternatives. Senior Writer Alex Wharton opened the article with an anecdote about someone cruising around on Digg.com and stumbling upon popular story about “the Slanket” and then purchasing the item.

Alex did a great job of illustrating how people can serendipitously “find” things they want when they weren’t even looking for them. I highly recommend you read the story.

I’m very diligent about responding to nearly all readers’ questions – whether they are in my purview or not. I often deal with subscription inquiries, change of address questions, even the occasional “where’s my f*ing issue” demand. I’ll pretty much quickly handle whatever is sent my way – provided I can understand the question.

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I’ve been wanting to do more video, but I’ve been working from home for the last two weeks. I decided to bite the bullet and post someting anyway. I figured that since I previously posted a tour of my office at Revenue that I would put one up of the home office (okay kitchen). Enjoy!

I would have brought you some interesting LinkShare news yesterday, but I didn’t hear about it until today. I had to call LinkShare’s PR firm to get the information. You’d think that when a company wants press coverage it might send a press release to the editorial department of a media organization – not to the sales director. You’d think.

I’m not trying to single out LinkShare as the only company that makes minor media missteps. They are just top of mind since this incident occurred this week and we’ve been attempting to correct the situation for more than a year.

The location for Affiliate Summit East 2008 has been set. I’m delighted to be going to Boston for the conference and with a little luck maybe my “World Champion” Boston Red Sox will be playing at Fenway Park, which would make my trip back home even sweeter.

Check out this contest to win a free pass to Affiliate Summit.

I’m rushing to get everything off my plate so I can head off the ShareASale’s ThinkTank conference in Scottsdale. When I saw the list of 80 or so attendees and the agenda I was really excited about the gathering of SAS affiliates and merchants. However, my excitement level rose even higher when I found out there might be some Texas Hold ‘Em played in a suite at the hotel on Saturday night. I’m no Jean-Robert, but I think I can hold my own as a gambler. As soon as I send the Nov./Dec. issue of Revenue to the printer today I’ll be practicing my poker face.

Has it been that long since I’ve actually written a blog? I guess so. I’ve been busy writing, editing and pulling together the November/December issue of Revenue. We send it to the printer this week, so it’s been crazy.

Yesterday I finished up (way past deadline) my Affiliate Advantage profile of super affiliate Scott Jangro, president of MechMedia. Whenever I write a longer piece (not a blog or editor’s letter, etc.) I have a very specific process. I wake up early – like 2am - put on headphones and crank some rocking music at full volume. Sometimes I listen to the same song over and over again until the feature is done. It’s like a calming thing and usually by the 40th time I can’t even hear what’s playing in my ear. But this time there was a twist on process and asked Scott via IM to tell me his favorite band so I could listen as I wrote. To bring the process full circle be sure to put on Ben Folds’ Rockin’ the Suburbs when you read Scott’s profile in the upcoming issue.

I just watched the Next Internet Millionaire (episode #7). It was a continuation of last week’s challenge and yes, someone does go home after a pathetic showing in the attempt to sell goods on eBay.

The good news is that the claws are coming out a little more and some people are definitely playing the game more strategically (a la Survivor) than others.