// 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 (oops, a little late this week!).

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• [DESIGN] 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer
  (gosquared.com, 661 saves, 48 inbound links, 25 diggs)
  • (design, webdesign, tips)
• [DESIGN] WebAppers - Only the Best and Free Resources for Web Application Developers
  (webappers.com, 251 saves, 58 inbound links, 6 diggs)
  • Blog about web app design.
  • (webdesign, resources)
• [GAMERS] N4G.com : All the latest game news
  (n4g.com, 198 saves, 100 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Digg for gamers
  • (games, news)
• [LAPTOP] Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life
  (friedbeef.com, 152 saves, 28 inbound links, 1872 diggs)
  • Tips on preserving your battery life.
  • (laptop, battery)
• [PHOTOS] The Vader Project
  (flickr.com, 83 saves, 100 inbound links, 7 diggs)
  • Paintjobs of Vader’s mask.
  • (starwars, flickr, darthvader, design)
• [PHOTOS] Cats and Mice
  (jeffdeboer.com, 39 saves, 42 inbound links)
  • Suits of armor for cats and mice.
  • (art, cats, armor, design)
• [RAGEBOY] Professional Protester, Jihadi-style
  (snappedshot.com, 35 saves, 100 inbound links, 12 diggs)
  • Weird.
  • (photos, protests, politics)
• [WRITING] Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 2)
  (friedbeef.com, 34 saves, 3 inbound links, 2 diggs)
  • Part 2
  • (writing, tips)
• [DESIGN] 11 Principles to Design a Great WordPress Theme
  (dailyblogtips.com, 31 saves, 16 inbound links)
  • (wordpress, theme, design)
• [CODE] Everything is dynamically typed
  (jaortega.wordpress.com, 22 saves, 5 inbound links)
  • Categories vs tags and static typing vs dynamic typing.
  • (programming, code)
• [WRITING] Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 1)
  (friedbeef.com, 19 saves, 3 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Part 1
  • (writing, tips)
• [FACEBOOK] Facebook Acquisitions: Fad or Proof of Platform Success?
  (readwriteweb.com, 18 saves, 24 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Develop a Facebook application and sell it for money.
  • (facebook, widgets, platform)
• [DESIGN] Some Gradients to Save Some Time.
  (gosquared.com, 18 saves, 3 inbound links, 10 diggs)
  • Free premade gradients for Adobe.
  • (design, gradients, illustrator, free)
• [GEEK] Computers in the 80s
  (365questions.org, 11 saves, 4 inbound links, 23 diggs)
  • some nice glamour shots of old computers
  • (computers, photography)
• [CONTEST] Blog Project: Three
  (dailyblogtips.com, 5 saves, 64 inbound links)
  • DailyBlogTips has a contest.
  • (blog, contest)
• [TRANSFORMERS] Transformers Old vs. New
  (geekstudent.com, 3 saves, 4 inbound links, 29 diggs)
  • Graphical comparison of new robots vs old robots
  • (transformers, movies)
• [BLOG] 10 Ways to Build Defensible Traffic for Your Website, Business or Blog
  (doshdosh.com, 3 saves, 10 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” Building defensible or alternative traffic sources for your website allows it to stay afloat, should any search engine algorithms negatively impact the amount of organic traffic you currently or are able to receive.”
  • (blogging, marketing, web)
• [GAMES,CODE] MMO Database Sites: Analysis on why each site succeeded
  (techsoapbox.com, 2 saves, )
  • Analysis of how one website overcame the competition and sold for $1 million.
  • (games, programming)
• [HUMOR] A simple misunderstanding
  (angryaussie.wordpress.com, 2 saves, )
  • The terrorists have already won.
  • (humor, workplace)
• [BLOG] Thank You for Not Blogging
  (bugbash.net, )
  • Comic
  • (comics)
• [COPYRIGHT] Transformers
  (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com, 2 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” If there’s any argument for overturning copyright law, it’s that it’s illegal to make a Transformers movie without Hasbro’s approval, despite the fact that Hasbro itself doesn’t respect the original characters and designs.”
  • (transformers, movie, copyright)
• [STARTUPS] Sales-driven IT Startups
  (baron.vc, )
  • From the article: ” It’s strange to see how a tech startup can start simply by getting their sales division right but when you think about it Microsoft and Dell were essentially sales-driven at the beginning.”
  • (startup)
• [MUSIC] Death Of The CD, Backwards In Time
  (webomatica.com, 2 inbound links, 17 diggs)
  • From the article: ” Single songs, more digestible for digital downloads, is actually a return to the days of the hit single, where all the emphasis was on the lone song. It seems the entire music industry is moving backwards in time.”
  • (music, essay, cd)
• [BLOG] Blogging is Dead (Long Live Value Blogging)
  (copyblogger.com, 25 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Social networks are killing blogging.
  • (blogging, facebook)

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

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Tags: blogging, design, facebook, games, programming, tips, transformers, webdesign, writing