Christmas lights will begin making their annual appearance over this weekend in windows and along streets everywhere. With environmental awareness on the rise, there is also a better way to celebrate the holidays festively that is more environmentally friendly. The answer is LED holiday lights.

LED holiday lights use 1/10th the energy and will last for more than 50,000 hours compared to less than 2000 for standard incandescents. The lights are also safer because they create very little heat–only i degree above ambient temperature. LED holiday lights also are very durable as they are constructed of a nearly indestructible epoxy plastic and contain no fragile filament or glass like incandescents. The lights are an improvement not just for their energy efficient nature, but because of increases in both lumination and durability.

Because of the increased durability and efficiency of LED lights, even the City of New York has switched over to using them in their traffic control lights and on their emergency response vehicles. The fact that the big bad city that glows at night is using them is a sure sign that you should too for that big city feel.

With Thanksgiving only two days away I hope that your preparations are well underway. While turkey, stuffing, and veggies are on your list… what about coupons?

The day after Thanksgiving is known in the retail world as Black Friday. The stores around the New York City Metropolitan area will be starting their sales as early as 4:00am. For those of you choosing not to take advantage of these early openings, and shop online instead then you should make use of target coupons and promotions that are available to you from over 2000 online stores at GoGoShopper.com.

You won’t be having turkey without stuffing or cherry pie without milk, so don’t go shopping online without your coupons.

There have been a lot of opinions voiced ever since PayPerPost came onto the blogging scene with what was considered a very controversial alternative for the average blogger to monetize their blog. After a rocky start, they developed the leading standard for blog ethics in the paid post format, and have slowly been gaining wider acceptance across the blogosphere much to the chagrin of “establishment” bloggers.

One of the reasons it still comes under fire is because it not only works for the blogger, but it is incredibly easy so that any blogger can do it. Taking a quick glance at their Top 10 Earners reveals 5-digit incomes through PayPerPost. While none of the names listed would be considered synonymous with blogging, it is proof that PayPerPost does what it claims… and allows people to blog about what they love and make money doing it.

What I have found to be amazing is the loyalty and dedication their Posties have for the system. Empowering impassioned users is one of the keys to success for any new media system. The other key would be constant and consistent evolution. With a new program, Social Spark, set to launch in January of 2008 that evolution continues and strengthens the presence of this form of blog monetization.

When the early history of the blogosphere is eventually written, it is without a doubt that PayPerPost will be listed as one of those revolutionary moments that helped to secure not only the future of blogging ethics… but that of blogging profitability.

Don’t you want to be a revolutionary?