// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. I post them on Twitter as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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• [CODE/RUBY] Hackety Hack: the Coder’s Starter Kit
  (hacketyhack.net, 1485 saves, 100 inbound links, 21 diggs)
  • Ruby for kids from the genius behind Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
  • (ruby, hackety, code)
• [FATBLOGGIN] 50 Weight Loss Tips
  (chris.pirillo.com, 774 saves, 100 inbound links, 10 diggs)
  • Chris Pirillo explains how to be svelte.
  • (health, diet, weightloss, tips)
• [BOOKS] Self-publishing Books - Blurb * Lulu
  (kk.org, 596 saves, 86 inbound links, 9 diggs)
  • Some neat-o tips on self-publishing books.
  • (books, publishing)
• [LIFEHACKS] Figuring Out Exactly How Much Your Time Is Worth
  (thesimpledollar.com, 210 saves, 29 inbound links, 48 diggs)
  • From the article: ” take your real wages and divide it by the real number of hours you put in for your job. That, my friend, is what your time is worth per hour using your current employment as a benchmark.”
  • (economics, money, time)
• [HUMOR] Working for Google.com versus working for meetup.com
  (docs.google.com, 169 saves, 100 inbound links, 9 diggs)
  • Funny comparison of working for the two different companies.
  • (google, meetup, jobs, humor)
• [DOOCED] The Dangers of Moonlighting
  (foundread.com, 94 saves, 33 inbound links, 2 diggs)
  • Fired from his company because of blogging about his startup ideas.
  • (dooced, startup, entrepreneurship)
• [GMAIL] How To Crank Through Your Gmail
  (webworkerdaily.com, 90 saves, 38 inbound links, 10 diggs)
  • A clean inbox is a stress-free inbox. This is one of the best lists of tips I’ve seen, including using AutoHotKey to set up aliases for quick tips.
  • (gmail, gtd, productivity)
• [CARTOONS] We Blog Cartoons
  (weblogcartoons.com, 89 saves, 100 inbound links)
  • Free cartoons you can reuse on your blog.
  • (cartoons, blog, free)
• [COPYRIGHT] Against perpetual copyright
  (wiki.lessig.org, 79 saves, 100 inbound links)
  • Mark Helprin (A Winter’s Tale — not worth reading) has a bug up his ass about copyright for no good reason.
  • (copyright, philosophy, opinion)
• [TSHIRTS] Inside Threadless
  (blog.guykawasaki.com, 67 saves, 85 inbound links, 855 diggs)
  • Inside of the Threadless workspace. Very cool/creative work environment.
  • (design, office, cool, threadless)
• [HUMOR] Let’s Make Website Mashups, Like Netflickr, Figg and BoingPress
  (wired.com, 66 saves, 47 inbound links, 640 diggs)
  • From the article: ” Crooks & Cheezburgers - Who better to expose corruption in government than a bunch of adorable kitties? IM IN UR JUSTIS DEPARTMENT FIRING UR ATTORNEYS! INVISIBLE HABEUS CORPUS!”
  • (humor, web2.0, mashups, geek)
• [BLOG] Confessions of an A-List Blogger
  (stevepavlina.com, 45 saves, 43 inbound links, 6 diggs)
  • Long but good read from one of the few truly successful bloggers out there in terms of adding value to people’s lives, building readership, and making a living from it.
  • (blogging, productivity, success)
• [CSS] Styling links
  (f6design.com, 44 saves, 11 inbound links)
  • Common ways of styling links in your blog.
  • (CSS, design, Links)
• [DIGG] DiggReSS - The Digg Feed Aggregator
  (diggress.com, 43 saves, 30 inbound links, diggs)
  • This is the digg feed aggregator to end all other digg feed aggregators.
  • (digg, rss, feed)
• [DIY] MacGyver Tip: CD spindle bagel tote
  (lifehacker.com, 26 saves, 76 inbound links)
  • Store your bagels in old (clean) CD spindles.
  • (bagel, diy)
• [TECHNORATI] Blog Search is Dead and Google Killed It
  (micropersuasion.com, 22 saves, 59 inbound links, 1 diggs)
  • From the article: ” Link authority was a good metric a year ago, but it’s not nearly as worthwhile today. Link authority doesn’t tell me who’s an influencer on Facebook or which video artists are rising on YouTube.”
  • (google, search, blog, technorati)
• [CAPTCHA] You might be digitzing books on the Web without knowing it thanks to this stealthy anti-spam technology
  (networkworld.com, 20 saves, 39 inbound links, 5 diggs)
  • Only cool thing I’ve ever seen about captcha - using it to correct OCR issues while digitizing books.
  • (captcha, books, technology, crowdsourcing)
• [CODE] The Three Ages of The Developer
  (hacknot.info, 18 saves, 10 inbound links, 18 diggs)
  • From the article: ” they come to think of reactive fire fighting as something to be proud of, rather than a symptom of undisciplined work habits.”
  • (development, programming, opinion, code)
• [GADGETS] Productivity Tip: Upgrade Your Pentium 4
  (codinghorror.com, 14 saves, 12 inbound links, 6 diggs)
  • 3.96 GHz Pentium 4 is more than twice as slow as a 2.6 GHz AMD when it comes to real world apps.
  • (computers, cpu, benchmark)
• [CODE] Real Programmers don’t need to write test applications!
  (weblogs.sqlteam.com, 12 saves, 3 inbound links, 2 diggs)
  • Why write a test application when you can debug it live on a real system?
  • (code, programming, testing, funny)
• [TWITTER] plusplusbot - rating on twitter
  (plusplusbot.com, 11 saves, 2 inbound links)
  • It’s a bot for twitter that let’s you quickly rank things.
  • (twitter, api)
• [LIFEHACK] Online Stopwatch
  (online-stopwatch.com, 3 saves, )
  • Webpage for timing your internet usage.
  • (lifehack, timer, clock)
• [GOOG] the looming spectre of Google
  (nbrightside.com, 2 saves, )
  • Should fear of Google seek into the marrow of our bones?
  • (fog, google)
• [TWITTER/HUMOR] How To Build Twitter In One Line Of Code
  (haacked.com, 2 saves, 16 diggs)
  • So true.
  • (twitter, humor, geek)
• [GADGETS] Throw Away Your Apple TV
  (parislemon.com, , 7 diggs)
  • Xbox 360 pwns Apple TV plus can play video games.
  • (appletv, xbox360, comparison)
• [TSHIRTS] Witty T-shirts for Bloggers
  (vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com, 3 inbound links, 19 diggs)
  • Vaspers does up a list of blogging t-shirts that should be made.
  • (tshirts, blogging)
• [DIY] Maker Faire 2007 report
  (webomatica.com, 2 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” When the battery dies on your iPod, don’t just chuck it in the trash and buy a new one, figure out a way to replace the battery, hack a power supply, or take it apart and reconfigure the parts into something else.”
  • (make, craft)
• [CODE] Steve McConnell has a blog
  (blogs.construx.com, )
  • Steve McConnell of Code Coverage bible fame has a blog now.
  • (code, coverage, books)
• [HUMOR/CANADA] We thought it was named after that actress on “Dallas”
  (renalfailure.wordpress.com, )
  • From the article: ” instead of celebrating Victoria Day like Christmas, we’re celebrating it like St. Patrick’s Day. Except we’re celebrating the Canadians instead of the Irish.”
  • (humor, humour, canada)

Legend

• saves - number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links - number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs - number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

This Week at Internet Duct Tape

• Opting Out of Technorati - The Break-up

  Breaking up is hard to do, but it’s over between me and Technorati. I’ve spent far too many lonely nights wondering why you never link me anymore… it’s time for a fresh start.

• Beta invitation for the RSS Readers to try out me.dium [del.icio.us]

  Me.dium is a Firefox extension that does instant messenger and shows you what pages your friends are surfing. Thanks to http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog/ for the invites.

• Using Comment Spam to Measure Blog Rank

  Using the Technorati Rank as a measure of blogging hierarchy is so 2005. Deciding if a blog is part of the top 100 purely by the number of other blogs linking to it is one way to measure popularity, but there must be other ways. In nature you can track the population increases of Bambi, [...]

• Best of Feeds - 45 links - blogging, business, startup, career, tips

  RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. I post them on Twitter as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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