Hard to believe, but it is already time to ring in another new year.  What did I learn in ‘08?  Here’s a list of some things off the top of my head, in no particular order:

• In hard times, it is good to be an expert at something
• You can teach an old dog new tricks, just don’t expect that they will be good tricks (sorry, RHD and IDAR.PK)
• Dell makes lousy laptops, but for some reason people are still buying them
• I still can’t believe there is a good reason to use Twitter
• There still may be a future for mobile search, but it probably won’t rely on the .mobi TLD
• Warm>Cold
• Never, ever be a long-term contractor instead of a fulltime employee (sorry, Google)
• Never stray far from what you are really good at (sorry, Yahoo)
• Never try to compete at something you don’t understand (sorry, Microsoft)
• Monetize, monetize, monetize.  There’s only value if you can monetize
• At least blogging is cathartic, since nobody actually reads what most people write (sorry, me)
• A moderately funny cat video can generate more traffic than all the SEO in the world
• I may never get a bag of crap from Woot, but that doesn’t stop me from trying