If you’re not out there in cyberspace interacting on the various personality platforms, you’re missing out.

For instance, there’s a growing and thriving community of affiliates, networks and merchants on Facebook.  The growth of our sphere of online marketing on Facebook since the Affiliate Summit earlier this month has been fascinating to watch.  I highly recommend you hop in while the community is still forming.  It seems that the community is moving beyond zombie biting (although that still goes on) into something beneficial.

Then there’s the venerable Twitter community.  Short messages and micro-blogs that channel what eventually gestate to become these sorts of longer form blog postings.  Sure there’s some irrelevance there, but it’s a powerful place to grow your brand, learn a few things and improve yourself.  Even Jeff Molander has joined.

And let’s not forget the podcasts out there.  Jeff Doak and I just released our first show (below).  Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille are going strong in their roles as “righteous hosts” with AffiliateThing.  This week, Shawn and Lisa are interviewing Michael Cowley of the UK network buy.at. It should be an interesting conversation as they compare and contrast UK and US affiliates and networks.  Since Clicks2Customers is an international company, I’ll definitely be listening in to glean some knowledge.

And launching today at 4pm is the new Video Ninjas show from Jim Kukral and Steve Rosenbaum.  These guys are both incredibly charismatic and interesting figures, so the show will certainly convey their enthusiasm for the video space.  I’m just wondering if Jim and Steve will wear ninja outfits for their inevitable video blog.

All that to say that it seems as if blogging in our sphere has cooled down over the last few weeks.  That’s understandable as we all go on vacations or recover from Summit hangovers and continue to innovate on social networks and podcasts.

We’re all just tiny pebbles thrown into the great cosmic sea, causing ripples that occassionally bisect, intersect, amplify or dampen each other.  Facebook, Twitter, blogs and podcasts are like wave tanks that help us to see how the ripples we create meet in that sea.