// 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. 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.

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• [LIFEHACKS] Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 - Lifehack.org
  • (lifehacks, productivity, resources)
  • (lifehack.org, 832 saves, 50 inbound links, 20 diggs)
• [DESIGN] The Great Website Design Gallery Roundup by CSS-Tricks
  • Created a blog theme? here’s some places to submit it
  • (css, webdesign, gallery)
  • (css-tricks.com, 623 saves, 38 inbound links, 11 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] RulesofThumb.org - Homepage
  • Wisdom voting site
  • (reference, rulesofthumb, diy, wisdom)
  • (rulesofthumb.org, 517 saves, 100 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] So I Quit My Day Job - Holy Cow! I Took the Plunge
  • Becoming an independent self-publisher
  • (blogging, inspiration, job)
  • (zenhabits.net, 184 saves, 42 inbound links, 1005 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Top 7 Geek Panties (for girls)
  • seen a few of these before
  • (gamers)
  • (gamegirl.com, 45 saves, 56 inbound links, 2470 diggs)
• [WRITING] 11 Essential Tips to Writing the Ultimate Tutorial
  • This is an essential skill for anyone. At some point in your career you will have to document how to do something using a computer.
  • (writing, tutorial, tips)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 36 saves, 11 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger
  • 31 small tips that can lead to great improvments
  • (blogging, tips)
  • (northxeast.com, 32 saves, 11 inbound links, 86 diggs)
• [DESIGN] How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]
  • the decisions you’ll face when overhauling your blog theme
  • (design, blogging)
  • (problogger.net, 25 saves, 6 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [HUMOR] BREAKINGOMFG: Apple Introduces Manila Case–The World’s Thinnest Notebook Case
  • notebook cases are always overpriced.
  • (apple, humor, design)
  • (gizmodo.com, 24 saves, 49 inbound links, diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab
  • Tips for dealing with people stealing your content.
  • (blogging, scrapers)
  • (problogger.net, 23 saves, 11 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] A Guide to Breaking Into the Technorati Top 100
  • (technorati, blogging)
  • (skelliewag.org, 19 saves, 7 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 52 Post Ideas to Help You Stay Inspired Throughout The Year
  • natch
  • (blogging, inspiration)
  • (northxeast.com, 19 saves, 6 inbound links, 34 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] How to Get 1,100 Subscribers in Five Days
  • impressive
  • (blogging, rss, reader)
  • (skelliewag.org, 11 saves, 9 inbound links, 9 diggs)
• [CREATIVITY] The Content Crossroads: Supernatural Success at the Intersection of Ideas
  • Seeing the intersections between different subjects can lead to creativity
  • (creativity, blogging, writing, inspiration)
  • (copyblogger.com, 10 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [GEEK] MacBook Air? Think Different - Buy a Bigger Envelope
  • surprise surprise, life is just fine without the latest tech
  • (advice, apple, macbookair)
  • (putthingsoff.com, 3 saves, 1 diggs)
• [HD] Blu-ray Pretty Much Wins Format War
  • All the major movie studios are on blu-ray now.
  • (bluray, hddvd, trends)
  • (paulstamatiou.com, 3 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [MUSIC] Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Reznor offer
  • Trent Reznor notes that without the music labels you have to run every aspect of the business… and that sucks.
  • (music)
  • (crave.cnet.com, 2 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] Blog Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike
  • It’s so true. It’s hard to be motivated once you’ve hit a high that you’ll never hit again.
  • (blogging, traffic)
  • (lorelle.wordpress.com, 5 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [GAMERS]The “Sex-Box” Race for President::By Kevin McCullough
  • This is a must read if you ever played Mass Effect. He gets it soooo wrong.
  • (culture, gaming, stupid)
  • (townhall.com, 62 inbound links)

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

• Rules of Thumb for Writing
  • Rules of thumb when writing
• Shameless Self-promotion
  • The Canadian Blog Awards are on again. You can also vote for Internet Duct Tape in the Sci/Tech category. Thanks to WinExtra for letting me know about the competition.

Tags: apple, blogging, design, inspiration, tips, writing