Weekend Reader - friendfeed, startup, web2.0, xbox360, search
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] Tacky, bigcontrarian.com
- Rant against the blogging about blogging industry
- [CODE] The fallacy of choice, linuxhaters.blogspot.com
- Why open source software sucks — too many choices
- [EMAIL] On Peanut Shells and Email Archiving, 43folders.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Never organize what you can simply discard; and if you can’t discard it, throw it onto one big pile.
- [EXERCISE] one hundred push ups, hundredpushups.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Train to do 100 pushups in 6 weeks
- [FRIENDFEED] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, user21.com, via:deepjiveinterests.com
- I’m on there as #132
- [FRIENDFEED] Frienderati, frienderati.alltop.com
- Neat, I’m one of the Frienderati on alltop.com
- [ITUNES] TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes Your iTunes Metadata, lifehacker.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Fixes metadata in 50 iTunes songs per month, $20 for unlimited usage or $12 annually
- [JOBHUNT] How to Hack a Technical Job Interview, lifehacker.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Using NPL and psychology to do well in job interviews.
- [LIBRARY] 7 Ways Your Public Library Can Help You During A Bad Economy, consumerist.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Reasons to develop a library habit
- [RUBY] 7/11 & 7/25 ShoesFests with Why The Lucky Stiff, ihack.us
- Shoes hack fest for creating tiny GUI apps with the Ruby toolkit
- [SEARCH] facesaerch - find people with this one-click face search, facesaerch.com
- Interesting UI for a search engine — looks like iTunes coverflow
- [STARTUPS] Tips, mmakai.com
- Collection of tips for starting a new company
- [STARTUPS] Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund, ycombinator.com
- Some interesting ideas that could become companies
- [TECH] Bug Shooting, bugshooting.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Screenshot tool for bug reports
- [WORDPRESS] Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress, blog-well.com, via:wank.wordpress.com
- Linked of things to know when leaving WordPress.com
- [XBOX360] Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player, lifehacker.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Stream Netflix to your computer and then to your Xbox 360 if you have Windows Vista
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Weekend Reader - programming, drm, api, google, copyright
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [CODE] Neal Stephenson on programming, lambda-the-ultimate.org
- What programming and writing have in common
- [CODE] Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All, wilshipley.com
- This is what programming is like.
- [CODE] Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems, codinghorror.com
- No, not really. Some brief reasons why you should use regexs.
- [CODE] The Ultimate Code Kata, codinghorror.com
- Practice makes perfect, and the only way to improve is to push yourself to the edge of your limits.
- [COPYRIGHT] “Canadian DMCA” brings “balanced” copyright to Canada, arstechnica.com
- You can get sued $20,000 for posting an mp3 on the internet.
- [FIREFOX] Firefox 3: Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3, lifehacker.com
- Lifehacker has the skinny on what’s new.
- [GADGETS] Roku: $100 gadget for watching Netflix movies on your TV, boingboing.net
- This looks awesome.. Netflix’s movies on demand for $100 plus $8.99 a month.
- [GAMES] Get Spore, spore.com
- Spore character creator trial is available
- [GOOGLE] Google vs Geosign, canadait.com
- Google dismantles a 160 million venture capital deal in Canada in mere weeks
- [HUMOR] Thank you, Adobe Reader 9!, blog.micropledge.com
- Adobe Reader, giving us all time to drink our coffee
- [IPHONE] 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G, fsf.org
- The Free Software Foundation lists what’s wrong with the iPhone developer model
- [PRIVACY] Big Brother is not watching, guardian.co.uk, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- The problem of too much data - if you collect everything, it’s hard to catch the correct things.
- [SLEEPHACKS] How to nap, boston.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Awesome graphic on why napping is good for you, and when to schedule it
- [WEB2.0] Two Cardinal Sins of REST API Design: Lessons you can Learn from the NewsGator REST API, 25hoursaday.com
- Interesting points, I realize that I usually make the mistake he’s outlining.
- [WEBDESIGN] 37Better Project: Better thinking, design and usability leads to better online experiences, 37signals.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Some old school redesigns from 37signals with a focus on usability
- [WORDPRESS] posting to wordpress via ruby and atompub, jmettraux.wordpress.com
- small script for piping text into wordpress blog posts
Tags: api, drm, programming
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Weekend Reader - friendfeed, blogging, technology, programming, wordpress
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential, nytimes.com
- From the article: ” I kept coming back to the idea that I had a right to say whatever I wanted. I don’t think I understood then that I could be right about being free to express myself but wrong about my right to make that self-expression public in a permanent way.”
- [BLOGGING] Stop asking, start filtering, a.wholelottanothing.org
- Filter out the PR companies, for they are dumb and don’t let us unsubscribe.
- [BLOGGING] Video Comments? Blow Me., expertidiot.com
- Video comments are the stupidest feature ever and this sums up my opinion of them.
- [CODE] Blogging Horror, girtby.net
- Has Coding Horror jumped the shark? Jeff responds in the comments.
- [DIGITAL CULTURE] Gilligan’s web, roughtype.com
- Counter argument to Clay Shirky’s pro-internet piece from last week.
- [FRIENDFEED] FriendFeed Friday Tips #1: Five Ways To Use the Hide Function, louisgray.com
- How to use hide as your information filter
- [FRIENDFEED] FriendFeed Friday Tips #2: Using the Bookmarklet, louisgray.com
- More ff tips from lg
- [FRIENDFEED] Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks, webomatica.com
- Why Jason things Friend Feed is one of the social apps to watch for 2008
- [FRIENDFEED] On FriendFeed, We’re All TV Channels, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Great analogy. I wouldn’t worry too much about your ‘channel’ — just be yourself and they people who find that interesting you probably share interests with.
- [INFORMATION OVERLOAD] Too Many Choices, Too Much Content, readwriteweb.com
- Dear Internet, give us a better way to filter information than “turn off the computer”.
- [LIFEHACKS] Grocery List Templates For Healthy People, smarterfitter.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Great little Excel template for those often shopped for items
- [PIRACY] Understanding Anti-Piracy Enforcement, torrentfreak.com
- An attempt to clear up some of the FUD.
- [SOCIALMEDIA] Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- Are social media sites useful for anything other than sucking up your time?
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle, bokardo.com
- Your users are at different stages in adopting your software, make sure you target each stage in your messages.
- [STARTUPS] How to be authentically fake, ricksegal.typepad.com
- Don’t use stock photography and claim its team shots of your employees. This is the future of visual search engines.
- [TECH] Early Adopters Are Useless, technosailor.com
- Needs more meat, but has some good links.
- [TECH] Looking back at mesh 2008, mathewingram.com
- Collected links to the Mesh 2008 conference
- [WEB2.0] How to Build a Social Web App, simon.incutio.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- These are the most amazingly concise notes I’ve seen of social web app best practices by the guy who made delicious.
- [WORDPRESS] 13 of the best WordPress plugins, davidairey.com
- Plugins for Self-hosted
- [WORDPRESS] How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades, themeshaper.com
- I didn’t know that you can essentially derive a new theme off of an existing WordPress theme.
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Weekend Reader - blogging, twitter, marketing, funny, lifehacks
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] Its about respect, winextra.com
- When do you link to someone? When you’re talking about them and want to discuss their viewpoint.
- [BLOGGING] Ten FriendFeed Visitors Beats 1,000 StumbleUpons Any Day, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Why Friend Feed is a better source of traffic than Digg and StumbleUpon
- [CODE] Business of Software Forum FAQ, discuss.joelonsoftware.com
- Good info for MicroISV developers.
- [CODE] Why I’m a better software developer than you, ytechie.com
- Hey, that describes me to a tee. :)
- [CULTURE] Shift Happens, slideshare.net
- Excellent slide show showing how the world is changing and the new culture that is emerging.
- [FACEBOOK] FaceBook In Reality, youtube.com, via:codinghorror.com
- Funny video from BBC comedy group
- [GOOGLE] Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere., googlereader.blogspot.com
- Google Reader Shares might have just become the delicious killer for me.
- [ITUNES] harmony, thirteen23.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Automatic cover art downloader for Windows
- [LIFEHACKS] Life Hack Misnomer, thegrowinglife.com
- From the article: ” Repurposing your shoe holder to organize your gadgets isn’t hacking life, it’s hacking a shoe holder. Likewise, utilities used to synchronize files don’t upgrade your life, they upgrade your computer.”
- [MARKETING] 5 Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Wrong, weburbanist.com
- Except, has the guerrilla marketing gone wrong if people are still talking about it?
- [PRODUCTIVITY] The Joy of Freeing Up Mental RAM, caffeinatedcoder.com
- Intro to Getting To Done
- [SOCIALMEDIA] Are we building Universities or Amphitheaters?, weblog.raganwald.com
- Because getting your attention is more valuable than giving your life value.
- [SOFTWARE] MoMB | The Museum of Modern Betas, momb.socio-kybernetics.net
- Looking for new stuff to try out? This has a comprehensive list of betas that are available.
- [STARTUPS] From Messes To Successes, avc.blogs.com
- Applies very well to the perception people have of Twitter
- [STARTUPS] The Coolest Business Plan Ever, ricksegal.typepad.com
- Microsoft Office metadata strikes again
- [TECH] What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman, webomatica.com
- How to figure out if tech is mainstream.
- [TWITTER] Using Twitter to track your FedEx, UPS or DHL Shipments, technofriends.in
- Neat trick, twitter @trackthis supports FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL tracking codes to send you direct messages whenever your packages change languages.
- [TWITTER] Who Should I Follow? | Twitter Friend Recommendations, whoshouldifollow.com
- REALLY excellent tool for suggesting people to follow
- [WEB2.0] Web 2.point.Mac: Developing software on Apple computers, compsci.ca
- Many of the web2.0 companies out there are using Macs as a developer platform.
- [WORDPRESS] 13 of the best WordPress plugins, davidairey.com
- Plugins for Self-hosted
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Weekend Reader - programming, lifehacks, code, blogging, funny
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 70 Simple Power Tao Secret Hacks to Writing the Perfect Productivity Article, Plus a Guide & System for Doing It, thegrowinglife.com
- The ultimate guide to writing lifehack posts. :)
- [BLOGGING] A Secret to Blogging Success - Build Upon What You Build, problogger.net
- Good advice for anything, really. Always leverage what strengths you already have.
- [BLOGGING] Thurday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST), 3.rdrail.net
- When is the best time to post a story that will get noticed?
- [CODE] Git forking for fun and profit, blog.labnotes.org
- Really good explanation of distributed version control and GIT and why you should git it.
- [CODE] Invitation to try out open source code review tool, mail.python.org
- Google’s Mondrian code review tool is going open source.
- [CODE] Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should, codinghorror.com
- Reading one programming book a year makes you a better programmer than the average.
- [COMMUNITY] Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard, continuations.wenger.us
- Some tips on how to make the most out of customer feedback.
- [CROSSLOOP] The Crossloop Community, winextra.com
- I’ve been unhappy with the social aspect of Crossloop before (namely, takes to long to get someone to install the software), but the “helper” marketplace can be a great thing.
- [DIGG] The StatBot pits Digg vs Digg, thestatbot.com
- Digg 2007 vs Digg 2008 for keywords
- [GEEK] J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz, linearpublishing.com
- Harry Potter author misuses copyright to sue related work by fan she once gave an award to.
- [GEEK] Nomophobia and The Curse of The Mobile Phone, putthingsoff.com
- What kind of mobile phone user are you?
- [IPHONE] iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later, mathewingram.com
- The iPhone is coming to Canada, but will this mean data plans open up? My guess, big no. Rogers has too much of a track record when it comes to sucking.
- [LASTFM] soundamus - new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to, soundamus.net
- Website that gives you an RSS feed to alert you when your favs on Last.FM release new music.
- [LIFEHACKS] The Battle for Our Minds, thegrowinglife.com
- Using our minds at work all day is making us stupid.
- [SLEEPHACKS] Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor, 37signals.com
- From the article: ” If you encounter someone who’s acting like an ass, there’s a good chance they’re suffering from sleep deprivation.”
- [SOCIALMEDIA] Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict, readwriteweb.com
- Scripts for Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Delicious, Facebook, and Flickr. Several of them by yours truly.
- [TECH] Early adopter angst, scobleizer.com
- Arguments why earlier adopters do matter.
- [TECH] What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman — Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest, webomatica.com
- How to figure out if tech is mainstream.
- [TWITTER] TwitterSnooze! v0.13, twittersnooze.com
- Stop following someone for a few days.
- [WORKHACKS] Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis, thedailywtf.com
- Embrace change, and quit your job when you start to stagnate.
Weekend Reader - twitter, blogging, usability, webdesign, bsg
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 10 things you MUST know before you register a domain name with anyone, domainwarning.com
- Tips for picking out where to host your domain names.
- [BLOGGING] Google Analytics for Blogs, googlesystem.blogspot.com
- Google Analytics will report daily readers, incoming links, popular posts, comments added.
- [BLOGGING] Warning Labels for Bloggers, geekculture.com
- hahah… so on point.
- [CODE] The Perfect Job Interview Question, noop.nl
- How to interview programmers: “what do you not like about other people’s code?”
- [CREATIVITY] 17 Obscure Creativity-Sparking Websites, lifedev.net
- List of interesting websites that stand out from the crowd.
- [CULTURE] Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, herecomeseverybody.org
- From the article: ” However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it’s worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.”
- [FRIENDFEED] Proposal to Clean Up the FriendFeed Clutter, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Some great ideas on making FriendFeed more useful.
- [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
- And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
- [GEEK] Battlestar Galactica Backstory in 8 Minutes, io9.com
- Spoilers, of course.
- [JAVASCRIPT] Guarding in JavaScript, thoughtworker.in, via:lazycoder.com
- Very brief look at using && and || to simplify your code.
- [LIFEHACKS] 5 Productivity Nutjobs Explained, thegrowinglife.com, via:doshdosh.com
- This made me laugh. :)
- [LINUX] The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment, contentconsumer.wordpress.com
- How hard is it to switch from Windows to Linux?
- [MEDIA] The Wire as Simpson Characters, periscopestudio.com, via:kottke.org
- artist renditions of scenes from the Wire as Simpsons characters
- [PERL] Ten things I hate about Perl, pozorvlak.livejournal.com
- I absolutely hate Perl’s OO, all the referencing, and the ugliness of embedded POD. It’s hard to go back to Perl 5 after Ruby.
- [STARTUPS] Why I love working with family people, 37signals.com
- If people have the constraint of “having a life outside of work” it makes it harder to hide poor management.
- [TWITTER] The Twitter Blacklist, twitterblacklist.com
- Tool with API for identifying Twitter spammers. It works by analyzing the ratio of followers to friends with some manual intervention.
- [TWITTER] Twitter Less, Blog More!, dailyblogtips.com
- From the article: ” Why? Because your blog is your property. It should be the single most important location for you on the Internet. It should be the place where people go to when they think about you. Your blog, not Twitter”
- [TWITTER] TwitterSnooze! v0.13, twittersnooze.com
- Stop following someone for a few days.
- [WEBDESIGN] Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design, smashingmagazine.com
- [WEBDESIGN] Khoi Vinh, nytimes.com
- Interview with one of my favorite web designers.
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Delicious Links - 20 links - blogging, windows, codinghorror, amazon, shopping
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [AMAZON] Amazon Discounts: Secret Amazon Discount Finder, deallocker.com
- Cool tool for finding discounted items at Amazon. Works in Canada. Also has a coupon blog.
- [AMAZON] Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools, lifehacker.com
- If you’ve ever shopped on the Internet, then you’ve used Amazon. Here are ten tips to help you use amazon from building wishlists to finding discounts/free shipping/coupons to getting refunds for items you’ve bought.
- [BLOGGER] Jerry Springer For Programmers: Only A Matter Of Time, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- From the article: ” It’s awesome to get a free burrito every 11,429 times somebody decides to read your blog. But that awesomeness doesn’t translate well to full-time careers.”
- [BLOGGING] More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant., techcrunch.com
- Arrlington on the business of blogging. Very honest.
- [BLOGGING] The Art Of Heresy (Or How To Thrive Under The Benevolent Rulership Of King Gabe Rivera), chartreuse.wordpress.com
- From the article: ” If your audience can view you anytime, anywhere then you have to be good all the time.”
- [CODE] Forced To Write English Syntax Code - Simplicity or Burden?, codesqueeze.com
- How being forced to write code in English makes things simpler for non-North Americans. You almost have to appreciate the strength of his opinion about the French…
- [CODE] The Programming Style that Saved my Marriage, ourdoings.com
- Programmers get grumpy when interrupted. Functional programming is a style that handles interruptions better than procedural programming
- [COPYRIGHT] Free your mind, stevenpoole.net, via:codinghorror.com
- Copyright should be renamed to RightToEat.
- [FACEBOOK] Facebook knows who you are, and that’s worth more than you think, paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
- If you don’t think Facebook is going to be a profitable company, then you’re underestimating the value of identity.
- [FLICKR] The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications, flickrbits.com
- Huge list of tools for working with Flickr
- [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
- And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
- [GEEK] stackoverflow, stackoverflow.com
- New podcast by Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood and Joel Spolsky FTW
- [PHP] Rails for PHP Developers, railsforphp.com
- Great idea - it looks like the PHP reference, but it shows you how to do the same task in Ruby.
- [SCREENSCRAPING] Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration, urbanhonking.com
- Controlling Firefox using Ruby with the JSSH extension for screen scraping Javascript.
- [TWITTER] Shout about the best of Houston at PlaceShout, blogs.chron.com
- Interesting, like Twitter but for location. A bit rough around the edges, needs to support non-US zip codes.
- [WEB2.0] The noise in Web 2.0 is mainly a Tech Elite problem, vanelsas.wordpress.com
- Real people don’t suffer from information overload because they can walk away from the computer.
- [WEBDEV] Web pages have ‘come alive and started breeding’, telegraph.co.uk, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- Interesting idea: the design of the web page evolves based on how people interact with it.
- [WINDOWS] Tray It, teamcti.com
- Great little free windows application that lets you minimize ANY software in the system tray.
- [WINDOWS] Upgrading from Vista to Windows XP: A Review, dotnet.org.za
- Worth reading :)
- [ZUNE] 5 reasons my Zune is dead to me, crave.cnet.com, via:raganwald.com
- Remember the Zune? Me neither.
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Delicious Links - 20 links - blogging, google, webdev, marketing, lifehacks
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less, problogger.net
- good tips for when you’re blog is in the dumps
- [BLOGGING] 27 Thoughts On Blogging For The Artist, problogger.net
- From the article: ” Though tempting, you’ll never crush your own mediocrity working only four hours a week.”
- [BLOGGING] Content Is Becoming a Commodity, readwriteweb.com
- Lower barrier of entry causes flood of information causes devaluation
- [BLOGGING] The Readers Point of View: The Irritating Side of Blogs, northxeast.com
- Why your blog sucks.
- [BLOGGING] The Top 5 Ways to Generate Traffic With Less Work, skelliewag.org
- Simple tips for bloggers
- [CODE] Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source, codinghorror.com
- That’s pretty awesome. Still donating $5k to open source even though you’ve quit your day job to be a full time blogger.
- [FACEBOOK] Facebook Is Not Really That Special, mattmaroon.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- From the article: ” It’s a glorified Classmates.com. For all the hype about the –social graph– that’s the most it will ever amount to because there’s nothing social about the internet. The internet is the most anti-social invention of all time.”
- [FIREBUG] Firebug 1.2 Excitement, railsjedi.com
- Firebug is hands down the best way to work with/develop web applications using javascript, HTML and CSS. If you aren’t using it then you’re effectively handicapping yourself.
- [FIREBUG] Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, microsoft.com, via:solotech.com
- Firebug equivalent for Internet Explorer
- [FIREFOX] Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college, sethgodin.typepad.com, via:avc.blogs.com
- From the article: ” In the lingo of Nancy Reagan, Firefox is a gateway drug.”
- [GEEK] stackoverflow, stackoverflow.com
- New podcast by Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood and Joel Spolsky FTW
- [GOOGLE] Play Googolopoly, the internet board game from Box.net, blog.box.net
- Google is the new Monopoly
- [LIFEHACKS] 11 Odd but Simple Ways to Improve Your Health, dumblittleman.com
- I can vouch for neti pots. I learned that one on Six Feet Under. :)
- [LIFEHACKS] 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School, positivityblog.com
- Lots of common productivity tips, but still a good read.
- [RSS] ReadBurner Fired Back Up With Revamped GUI, Reader Integration, louisgray.com
- ReadBurner looks like some nice sugar on top of Google Reader to make RSS more of a social activity.
- [SCREENCAST] Wink, debugmode.com
- Free screencast authoring tool
- [TWITTER] Twitter: The Web’s Playground, blowski.wordpress.com
- The most concise explanation of the tech blogging scene on Twitter that I’ve ever read.
- [WEBDESIGN] Should Redesign? Cast Your Vote Now!, shouldredesign.com
- Vote on web designs. Very addictive.
- [WEBDEV] inursite, inursite.com, via:morethanseven.net
- Spider for automatically checking your site for validation once a day.
- [WORKHACKS] The Business, randsinrepose.com
- How to negotiate your salary before accepting the job offer.
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Delicious Links - 20 links - google, blogging, wordpress, twitter, lifehacks
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers, copyblogger.com
- Are you down with the B.L.O.G.? Yeah, you know me!
- [BLOGGING] How to Target the Right Social Media Sites, problogger.net
- Howto guide for bloggers on using sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon to generate traffic.
- [BLOGGING] the thorny issue of blog comment ownership, nbrightside.com
- Who owns a comment?
- [CODE] Google REST Search API, blogoscoped.com
- This could be useful for web apps.
- [CODE] We need a Wikipedia for data, bret.appspot.com
- Where is the open source database for map info, whitepages, movie times, music info, etc.
- [FIREFOX] Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college, sethgodin.typepad.com, via:avc.blogs.com
- From the article: ” In the lingo of Nancy Reagan, Firefox is a gateway drug.”
- [GEEK] My Cat Bubba Posts Videos and Twitters using an EeePC and Ubuntu, fsckin.com, via:webomatica.com
- It’s a pretty static video of the cat eating, but nice hack.
- [LIFEHACKS] From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours, problogger.net
- Switching to Gmail to become more productive with email.
- [LIFEHACKS] Just say NO to crap!, squawkfox.com, via:skelliewag.org
- The ultimate decluttering tip is not to consume.
- [STARTUPS] We Need A New Path To Liquidity, avc.blogs.com
- From the article: ” what happens when a company gets purchased: The service languishes. The team leaves. It stops getting better. And often gets worse.”
- [STARTUPS] What the New York Times “death by blogging” story got right., calacanis.com
- From the article: ” In some ways I think I’ve realized that life is just a big video game and if one game doesn’t work out you put another quarter in and try again.”
- [TWITTER] Improving Twitter, kungfugrippe.com
- Merlin Mann’s ideas for how to improve twitter. He’s one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter
- [TWITTER] Twubble, crazybob.org
- Twitter friend of a friend finder.
- [WEB2.0] AppEngine World: your one-stop resource for Google App Engine, appengineworld.com, via:marshallk.com
- AppEngine news aggregator. I wish I had an AppEngine account :(
- [WEB2.0] Google App Engine, code.google.com
- Google releases blogspot for web applications.
- [WEB2.0] Mulling On Google App Engine, al3x.net
- Alex Payne (of Twitter)’s thoughts on the new appengine
- [WORDPRESS] Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point, themeshaper.com
- Ian is releasing his Sandbox-plus-plus theme with some stuff from BluePrint CSS. I’ve been waiting 9 months for this. :)
- [WORDPRESS] The Great WordPress Attack, psionmark.com
- If you aren’t running WP 2.5, your site is probably hacked.
- [WORKHACKS] The Case Against Overtime, caffeinatedcoder.com
- Compelling arguments as to why you shouldn’t work overtime as a programmer.
- [WPDESIGN] Raising Personal Standard for Paid WordPress Themes, wpdesigner.com
- What a WordPress theme should include.
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This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 7 Reasons Why your Website Won’t Last Without Analytics, makeuseof.com
- This is in my “top 5 beefs with wordpress.com”. Blogging without Google Analytics sucks because you’re never able to self correct.
- [BLOGGING] How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline That Truly Works, copyblogger.com
- Create your tagline by thinking about the problems you solve.
- [CSS] 960 Grid System, 960.gs, via:technospot.net
- Looks like Blueprint CSS, with more polish.
- [GREASEMONKEY] Google Gears + Greasemonkey to take Wikipedia offline, code.google.com
- Proof of concept on how to use Greasemonkey with Google Gears. I want to try this out, I think the combination of Gears, jQuery and Greasemonkey could lead to some awesome scripts.
- [LIFEHACKS] 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work, lifedev.net
- Look at the productivity tips of some of histories greatest figures.
- [LIFEHACKS] 12 Rules for Getting a Grip on Massive Email, problogger.net
- How to manage too much email.
- [MEMES] I Can Has Rezearch Papar?, cylegage.com
- Long article discussion internet culture, memes and anonymity.
- [MYBLOGLOG] FOAFster — Mashable FOAF, from MyBlogLog, kentbrewster.com
- Ok, this might be the mashup that gets me using MyBlogLog again.
- [PYTHON] Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python, python.net, via:benjamingolub.com
- Python style guide by the maker of Docutils.
- [RUBY] Announcing Ninja-Patching!, avdi.org
- How to patch code so that it will randomly kill other code.
- [SCIFI] Brasyl, Halting State, The Last Colony and Rollback: The 2008 Hugo Voters Electronic Editions, scalzi.com
- How to obtain electronic copies of this years Hugo award nominees.
- [SEO] I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO, seomoz.org
- Most web startups are dumb about getting direct search referrals.
- [TWITTER] I’m Over Twitter, threeminds.organic.com
- From the article: ” With Twitter, each of us shouts into the void to the community at large, rather than taking the risk of speaking directly to one another.”
- [WORDPRESS] A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress, themeshaper.com
- Make the footer easily customizable.
- [WORDPRESS] WordPress 2.5 usability review, noscope.com, via:archgfx.net
- Discussion of what the WP2.5 admin panel does wrong.
- [WORKHACKS] Meetronome, meetronome.com
- Online meeting minute generator that also calculates the average cost of the meeting