// Internet Duct Tape

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.

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• [BITTORRENT] Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations, torrentfreak.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
  • Pretty cool. Then when from 20 servers and 4 days to update clients to 2 servers and 4 hours to update clients.
  • (bittorrent, 15 saves, 22 inbound links, diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You, informationweek.com, via:doshdosh.com
  • This should be titled “WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS”. Mandatory reading for understanding linking. It gets bonus points because the article doesn’t follow its own rules.
  • (blogging, tips, Linkbait, links, 54 inbound links)
• [CODE] insomnia and productivity, sob.apotheon.org
  • hack mode
  • (code, programming, 2 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves, louisgray.com
  • List of tech bloggers who are on friendfeed
  • (friendfeed, blogging, lifestreaming, 15 saves, 50 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Animal Crossing Is Tragic, animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com
  • Sad little tale of a gamer who shared Animal Crossing with his/her dying mother.
  • (animalcrossing, gamers, 15 saves, diggs)
• [GAMERS] The Co-op Gaming Bill of Rights, ozymandias.com
  • Co-op gaming can be a ghetto on a lot of platforms. I’d love for more games to adopt these.
  • (gamers, xbox360, 2 saves, 12 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Warlords Online, warlords-online.com, via:lazycoder.com
  • Online MPORG based on Puzzle Quest
  • (gamers, puzzlequest, 15 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [LINKS] Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things, readwriteweb.com, via:twitter.com
  • Some suggestions for ‘best of the weird web’
  • (links, fun, 15 saves, 20 inbound links, 649 diggs)
• [OPENID] Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?, drnicwilliams.com
  • How to use OpenID certificates so that you NEVER have to log in to any site that supports OpenID.
  • (openid, authentication, certificates, firefox, 15 saves, 47 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [TECH] The real reason I left my career in tech, backinskinnyjeans.com
  • What women have to deal with being in the hightech workplace
  • (tech, women, 8 saves, 10 inbound links, 34 diggs)
• [TWITTER] 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe, flowingdata.com
  • Some cool examples of visualizing data
  • (twitter, visualization, tools, 15 saves, 94 inbound links, 12 diggs)
• [TWITTER] Need help managing your Twitter Karma?, dossy.org, via:experiencecurve.com
  • Something I’ve been complaining about. A better Twitter followers manager. Needs more info about the followees though.
  • (twitter, mashup, 15 saves, 10 inbound links, 185 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] 20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer, sixrevisions.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • List of webdesign related websites. Most are familiar.
  • (webdesign, development, design, 15 saves, 65 inbound links, 3621 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] Administrative Debris, tomayko.com
  • Content is everything… then why do we display so much stuff that isn’t content?
  • (design, tufte, usability, 15 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [WEBDESIGN] IE App Compat VHD, microsoft.com
  • Virtual machine images of different versions of Internet Explorer so that you can test a website on multiple versions of the same web browser.
  • (windows, virtualization, testing, 3 saves, 100 inbound links)
• [WEBHACKS] Down for everyone or just me?, downforeveryoneorjustme.com
  • Find out if a website is unreachable for the entire net or just your machine
  • (tools, internet, network, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [WEBSAVVY] the Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight, awesomehighlighter.com
  • note to my parents: please use this all the time so I have some clue why you sent me that web page in an email.
  • (tools, highlighter, web2.0, sharing, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 29 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity, matthewpaulmoore.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Good advice, even if none of is groundbreaking.
  • (advice, workhacks, code, programming, 15 saves, 28 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] 9 Simple Strategies to Getting Things Done At Work, lyved.com
  • Tricks for being more productive in the office
  • (productivity, lifehacks, workhacks, 15 saves, 12 inbound links, 679 diggs)
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