(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

StartupSchwag, my favorite monthly schwag distributor, hits the target again with an excellent collection of schwag as part of schwag bag #9.

The month’s goodies included a shirt from microblogging service Plurk (you can follow me here and use this URL to join), online marketplace Zilok, comparison shopping plugin Price Advance, online communication tool NimBuzz!, online video community Magnify (shout outs to Ari and Steve!), and online games site Armor Games.

Great stuff as always — and as always, it’s highly recommended. Sign up for monthly schwag today.

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In the beginning of the year, I blogged about the Reddit bobbleheads that were making their way to doorsteps around the nation. This one in particular was used for the Social Monks video as they toured the country showed how they did good things to people. More information can be found on the official Social Monks blog.

Well, when Paul Sanchez wrapped up his trip, we met for coffee and he handed me the very heavily beaten up bobblehead. This is not the same one as the bobblehead featured in January’s post.

Poor guy. He’s suffered so.

At conferences and expos, you can often find yourself finding tons of bouncy balls that light up (the coolest once which turn color when they do — yes, a post will be forthcoming with a video!). This “bouncy ball,” however, from performance based CPA netwrok AdDrive, was a bit unexpected but loads of fun to play with.

On the topic of pens, that’s always something the old businessfolk seem to consider an absolute necessity. Since I do just about everything over the computer but occasionally sign receipts and the like, I like pens but they’re not as handy as they used to be. Regardless, some are aesthetically pleasing and others are just purely functional. When it comes to pens, you really can’t have too many. 🙂

One of the cooler pens that I own is the light-up pen that I have from Landing Page Optimization firm Widemile:

On a similar note, thanks to Ty Downing, I posted about an earlier light-up pen that actually has Google written all over it. Here’s the better picture (once again, for nostalgia’s sake):

At South by Southwest, I got yet another blue light-up pen (which is great, because blue is my favorite color). This one came from film production site SAGIndie:

Are these all the light-up pens that I have? Not even close. However, this is all I seem to have photographs of at the moment. There will be more!