Best of Feeds – 37 links – google, blogging, facebook, wordpress, tips

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. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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• [WEB2.0] What are the best 100 Web 2.0 sites and services? We don’t know. But you do.
  (webware.com, 1707 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
  • The webware award winners.
  • (web2.0, awards, list)
• [BLOG] Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers
  (mashable.com, 840 saves, 100 inbound links, 88 diggs)
  • Huge list of resources for bloggers.
  • (blogging, tools, resources, wordpress)
• [DESIGN] Mojizu – A Contemporary Character Design Community
  (mojizu.com, 774 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
  • Excellent character designs… are any of these CC and free to use?
  • (characters, illustration, art)
• [LIFEHACKS] 62 Little Known Uses Of Vinegar | because you value your body
  (odyb.net, 512 saves, 33 inbound links, 864 diggs)
  • I’m heading to the grocery store right now.
  • (vinegar, tips, household, diy, health)
• [TECH] 69 Tech Blogs That Don’t Suck
  (micahville.com, 490 saves, 36 inbound links, 967 diggs)
  • List of popular tech blogs.
  • (blogs, technology)
• [GOOGLE] Socialstream
  (hcii.cs.cmu.edu, 351 saves, 100 inbound links, 15 diggs)
  • Google’s new social network web app.
  • (google, socialnetworking, social, socialnetworks)
• [MUSIC] 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod
  (simplehelp.net, 211 saves, 41 inbound links, 1074 diggs)
  • iTunes is crap, there are many alternatives.
  • (ipod, Software, tools, itunes)
• [GRAFFITI] Painting with Light
  (colourlovers.com, 185 saves, 59 inbound links, 2292 diggs)
  • From the article: ” Using an exposure of about ten-to-thirty seconds and a tripod for best results, Light Graffiti artists start at the first click.”
  • (photography, graffiti, light)
• [FIREFOX] Firefox 2 Spelling Dictionary Hacks; Make Firefox Inline Spell Checker More Useful
  (labnol.blogspot.com, 169 saves, 36 inbound links, 12 diggs)
  • Two excellent tips here: switch dictionary to Canadian and automatically import computer terms.
  • (firefox, dictionary, tips, spellchecker)
• [LIFEHACK] My War on Clutter: Never –organize– what you can discard
  (43folders.com, 157 saves, 90 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” I’m finally getting my head around the idea that organization is what you do to stuff that you need, want, or love — it’s not what you do to get useless stuff out of sight or to impart make believe meaning.”
  • (organization, productivity, clutter, lifehacks)
• [CODE] From project sluts to strawmen: An interview with Tim Lister
  (blog.businessofsoftware.org, 112 saves, 17 inbound links, 6 diggs)
  • Good interview with one of the authors of PeopleWare on the subject of project management.
  • (management, programming, project, software)
• [FACEBOOK] Why Facebook, why now?
  (scobleizer.com, 37 saves, 48 inbound links, 4 diggs)
  • Robert Scoble’s thoughts on Facebook.
  • (facebook, scoble, socialnetworking)
• [RSS] FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs
  (blogs.feedburner.com, 31 saves, 100 inbound links, 6 diggs)
  • I wish wordpress.com would get on the bandwagon.
  • (feedburner, blogger, rss)
• [COPYRIGHT] Did ya know? It’s Fair Use Day: July 11, 2007
  (arstechnica.com, 9 saves, 40 inbound links, 649 diggs)
  • Instead of stealing music, or copying a DVD, contact a representative and try to get the draconian laws prevented.
  • (copyright, piracy)
• [RSS] A Simple Way to Create Your Own Personal Feedburner Feedflare
  (doshdosh.com, 5 saves, 5 inbound links, 1 diggs)
  • Good ideas for customizing your RSS with FeedBurner.
  • (feedburner, feedflare, blogging, rss)
• [GAMES] Weekend Fun: 15 Tower Defense Games
  (franticindustries.com, 5 saves, 2 inbound links, 7 diggs)
  • List of all of the Desktop Tower Defense games.
  • (games, dtd)
• [PRIVACY] Death by Google Calendar: How I Identified you to rob you
  (dumblittleman.com, 4 saves, 3 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Why do we broadcast so much information online?
  • (google, calendar, privacy)
• [SPAM] Stop Human Comment Spammers
  (blogherald.com, 3 saves, 7 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” The latest uproar in the blogosphere is a new service which will pay bloggers to comment on blogs.”
  • (blogs, comments, spam)
• [FACEBOOK] Facebook Knows What You Did Last Summer. (Facebook Privacy Settings & Facebook App Defaults)
  (500hats.typepad.com, 3 saves, 2 inbound links, 3 diggs)
  • Walkthrough of some of the Facebook privacy defaults you may want to change.
  • (facebook)
• [BLOG] 7 Secret Ways To Send Your Website Stratospheric – Digging Below The Surface Of Zen Habits
  (hamelife.com, 2 saves, 1 diggs)
  • I’ve also been interested in how ZenHabits got started.
  • (blogging, seo)
• [SMO] The Friend Tax on “Social” Media
  (baron.vc, , 5 diggs)
  • The sad truth that social networking/bookmarking sites always penalize having friends, their raison d’etre.
  • (smo, digg, friends, socialsoftware)
• [HUMOR] Web 9.0 — Chip’s Quips
  (chipsquips.com, 4 inbound links)
  • This is the future of captcha
  • (captcha, humor)
• [STARTUP] Zero to Startup: Product Test in a Weekend
  (okdork.com, 2 inbound links)
  • Rapid prototype and get your idea in front of eyeballs to see if it’s worth your time.
  • (startup, development)
• [NEWS] Writing For The Blog Herald
  (webomatica.com, )
  • Webomatica will be writing for the blog herald, another reason to read BH.
  • (blogherald, webomatica)
• [MARKETING] The Art Of The Pitch: Ron Popeil And Steve Jobs
  (webomatica.com, , 24 diggs)
  • How is Steve Jobs like Ron Popeil? Set it, and forget it!
  • (stevejobs, mac, ipod, ronpopeil, marketing)
• [BLOG] out with the old, in with the new
  (nbrightside.com, )
  • User experience of turning on Spam Karma to improve Akismet.
  • (wordpress, akismet, spamkarma, spam, blogging)
• [PRIVACY] Web 2.0 is a government plot!
  (angryaussie.wordpress.com, , 34 diggs)
  • Why wiretap when you can view their Facebook mini-feed?
  • (privacy, web2.0)
• [POPCULTURE] Todd Goldman: Art Thief?
  (thirdproject.net, 27 inbound links)
  • Todd Goldman’s Stupid Factory rips off everything?
  • (goldman, stupidfactory, popculture)
• [WORDPRESS] Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips
  (blogherald.com, 15 inbound links)
  • How to get featured on Lorelle’s weekly WordPress tips.
  • (wordpress, wordpress.com)
• [FACEBOOK] Not A Rumor: Google WANTS To Buy Facebook
  (parislemon.com, 3 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” it’s not just someone quoting an anonymous Google source, it’s Sergey Brin talking openly about his desire for Facebook, and”
  • (facebook, google, acquisition)
• [COMICS] Zuda Comics: Market Research By Committee
  (profy.com, 3 inbound links, 11 diggs)
  • DC Comics is starting a social web site for comics.
  • (comics)
• [ESSAY] It’s not Information Overload – it’s garbage overload
  (winextra.com, 2 inbound links)
  • From the article: ” If you don’t blog you aren’t adding to the conversation, if you don’t have a Facebook entry you don’t exist, if you aren’t on Twitter or Pownce you have no presence, if you aren’t LinkedIn then you have no future.”
  • (tech, future, essay, information, overload)
• [SLEEPHACKS] 15 good practices for getting a good nights sleep
  (justkeepthechange.com, )
  • Insomniacs take note.
  • (sleep, sleephacks, lifehacks)
• [ESSAY] The passing of the tactile generation | WinExtra
  (winextra.com, )
  • From the article: ” In our rush to a digitized nirvana I fear we will lose one of the most important things that make us human.”
  • (tech, future, essay)
• [SEO] John Chow vs. Google – Guess Who’s Winning
  (pronetadvertising.com, 13 inbound links, 2 diggs)
  • John Chow gets punished by Google and Technorati for his link schemes.
  • (johnchow, google, seo, technorati)
• [WRITING] What Is A Tip, Technique, How-To, Advice, Guide, And Only Way To Do It?
  (blogherald.com, 2 inbound links)
  • Semantic differences useful for “how-to bloggers”.
  • (semantics, tips, howto)

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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