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. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [INSPIRATION] FFFFOUND!
- Found images on the web. It’s a bookmarking site for interesting images you find in your web searches. Lots of good fodder for blog posts.
- (ffffound.com 3510 100 229)
- [BLOGGING] Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
- How to link properly.
- (codinghorror.com 390 98 15)
- [TUMBLR] Third time’s a charm
- tumlbr v3 announcement, thanks AndyC
- (blog.davidville.com 145 100 523)
- [WRITING] Silicon Valley Users Guide: How to coast to a writing career
- From the article: ” Setting up a blog is optional. It could be a good place to showcase your talent, or a scary place to document your lack thereof. Think before you post.”
- (valleywag.com 82 36 11)
- [OPENSOCIAL] Why Google launched OpenSocial
- From the article: ” Google’s OpenSocial announcement was just a lot of noise meant to distract people from what Facebook was doing in advertising”
- (scripting.com 57 68 2)
- [COMMUNITY] I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy
- Reward systems encourage community building… or do they?
- (benbrown.com 46 22 1)
- [EMAIL] 10 Tips for Managing Email Effectively
- Good tips.
- (dailyblogtips.com 34 12 8)
- [WEB2.0] Five Simple Sobriety Steps for Web 2.0 Kool Aid Boozers
- Applies to any meme or fad.
- (micropersuasion.com 26 9 3)
- [OPENSOCIAL] Social Hacking
- Blog dedicated to finding security problems with Google’s Open Social API.
- (theharmonyguy.com 26 19)
- [BLOGGING] Resources
- A list of resources for blogging at Daily Blog Tips.
- (dailyblogtips.com 14 24)
- [COPYRIGHT] Cory Doctorow Interview on Nottke.org
- From the article: ” It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to copy than this year; there’s not going to be a day in which it’s harder to copy than this day; from now on.”
- (inclusive.wordpress.com 9 8)
- [BLOGGING] BloggingZoom
- digg for blogs
- (bloggingzoom.com 8 100)
- [TECHNORATI] Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old
- Heaven forbid you’d want to search by authority over large periods of time.
- (techcrunch.com 7 58 2)
- [INFORMATION OVERLOAD] Sound and Fury: Slow Down and Focus on the Message, Not Messaging
- From the article: ” the focus these days seems to be too much on finding new ways to communicate … and not enough on finding important things to say”
- (webworkerdaily.com 6 3 18)
- [CODE] Requirements specification for writing a requirements specification (excerpt)
- because even the process needs process
- (chipsquips.com 5 2)
- [BLOGGING] Trust and Confidence
- You’re judged by how you respect the confidence of others.
- (weblog.raganwald.com 5 2)
- [WORDPRESS.COM] WordPress Guide to Livelihood Without Central Marketplace Dependency
- Why the wordpress.com premium theme marketplace is a load of smelly poo.
- (wpdesigner.com 20 22)
- [BLOGGING] Goodbye BlogRush - Simplehelp
- Why Blog Rush isn’t worth the widget space
- (simplehelp.net 2)
- [COMMUNITY] The Secret to Building a Popular Blog and Getting Tons of Readers
- You need a supportive community of influencers.
- (doshdosh.com 31 10)
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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- In August I was being the dutiful son and trying to get my father hooked on RSS feeds. (It’s like the Ring — if you get someone hooked on RSS you no longer have 700 unread items in Google Reader) I hit a snag: his browser of choice is Internet Explorer and there wasn’t a simple way to…
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- Microsoft’s live.com is offering email addresses, and the usual land grab rush is on to “secure” your identity on the service. What most people don’t realize is that securing a “prime real estate” email address is probably the LAST thing you want to do. An obvious email…
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- [YAHOO PIPES] Yahoo Pipe Cleaner v1.1
- Yahoo Pipes changed their website on me and I’ve fixed Yahoo Pipe Cleaner so that it works with the new site. Now it also removes image thumbnails that were popping up. It might not run on all Yahoo Pipes because some pipes now have custom URLs — let me know if you are having any problems using…

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