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Every Wednesday, I share five interesting blog posts that I’ve found through my travels on the Internet. Let’s jump right into this week’s selection.

Starting with Josepf Haslam, we gain insight to the 12 most important life lessons we can learn from Forrest Gump. He may not have been a smart man, but he knew what love is. And he knew that your actions speak far louder than your words.

Just yesterday, I posted up my pictures from Holland, but I’m not the only one who has been there. It wasn’t that long ago that “Mananetwork” Tomasz Wagner posted up his Amsterdam photos too. He people-watched and people-photographed.

Reaching a big milestone is Internet entrepreneur Tyler Cruz. His blog has now been live on the web for seven and a half years and he just published his 1,000th post. He’s learned (and earned) a lot in that time. In the next couple of months, I’ll be hitting post number 2,500 on Beyond the Rhetoric.

While we talk about blog advertising from time to time, the advertising world of TV is an entirely different beast. Anny Chih gives us a tiny glimpse into that world, showing us where upfronts are better than waffles. An “upfront” is a party that a network may throw to attract agencies to pre-buy advertising for the rest of the year.

And finally, we have Brent Beshore telling us about the frenemies we should dump. They say that you are the average of your five closest friends and that the company that you keep is reflective of who you are. Do you have a Debbie Downer in your life? How about a Needy Nancy or a Listless Larry? Do you need to find new friends?