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.

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

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.

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, shopping, tips, 1583 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [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.
  • (amazon, shopping, tips, 440 saves, 39 inbound links, 703 diggs)
• [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.”
  • (programming, blogging, techcrunch, codinghorror, 11 saves)
• [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, business, 90 saves, 100 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [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.”
  • (blogging, media, 4 saves, 4 inbound links)
• [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…
  • (english, funny, programming, 8 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [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
  • (code, 2 saves)
• [COPYRIGHT] Free your mind, stevenpoole.net, via:codinghorror.com
  • Copyright should be renamed to RightToEat.
  • (copyright, writing, economics, 87 saves, 50 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [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.
  • (facebook, search, 24 saves, 29 inbound links)
• [FLICKR] The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications, flickrbits.com
  • Huge list of tools for working with Flickr
  • (flickr, 1354 saves, 17 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
  • And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
  • (gta, games, parody, 11 saves, 19 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [GEEK] stackoverflow, stackoverflow.com
  • New podcast by Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood and Joel Spolsky FTW
  • (podcast, codinghorror, joelonsoftware, 53 saves, 100 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [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.
  • (php, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, 25 saves, 12 inbound links)
• [SCREENSCRAPING] Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration, urbanhonking.com
  • Controlling Firefox using Ruby with the JSSH extension for screen scraping Javascript.
  • (firefox, javascript, automation, jssh, ruby, 133 saves, 23 inbound links)
• [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.
  • (twitter, yelp)
• [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.
  • (information, overload, 22 saves, 30 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [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.
  • (webdesign, 100 inbound links)
• [WINDOWS] Tray It, teamcti.com
  • Great little free windows application that lets you minimize ANY software in the system tray.
  • (windows, software, freeware, utilities, 400 saves, 69 inbound links, diggs)
• [WINDOWS] Upgrading from Vista to Windows XP: A Review, dotnet.org.za
  • Worth reading :)
  • (windows, microsoft, humor, 475 saves, diggs)
• [ZUNE] 5 reasons my Zune is dead to me, crave.cnet.com, via:raganwald.com
  • Remember the Zune? Me neither.
  • (zune, ipod, 7 saves, 22 inbound links, 3 diggs)

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, 31 saves, 29 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [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.
  • (socialmedia, blogging, 44 saves, 7 inbound links, 15 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] the thorny issue of blog comment ownership, nbrightside.com
  • Who owns a comment?
  • (blogging, comments)
• [CODE] Google REST Search API, blogoscoped.com
  • This could be useful for web apps.
  • (google, rest, 19 saves, 7 inbound links)
• [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.
  • (data, opensource, innovation, 222 saves, 79 inbound links)
• [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.”
  • (firefox, marketing, 71 saves, 62 inbound links, 20 diggs)
• [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.
  • (cats, 3 saves, 2 inbound links, 33 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours, problogger.net
  • Switching to Gmail to become more productive with email.
  • (lifehacks, workhacks, gmail, email, 22 saves, 14 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Just say NO to crap!, squawkfox.com, via:skelliewag.org
  • The ultimate decluttering tip is not to consume.
  • (lifehacks, declutter, 2 saves, 11 inbound links)
• [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.”
  • (web2.0, business, vc, 116 saves, 99 inbound links)
• [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.”
  • (startup, entrepreneurship, blogging, 17 saves, 18 inbound links)
• [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, 26 saves, 18 inbound links)
• [TWITTER] Twubble, crazybob.org
  • Twitter friend of a friend finder.
  • (twitter, tools, mashup, 513 saves, 100 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [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 :(
  • (appengine, google, 5 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [WEB2.0] Google App Engine, code.google.com
  • Google releases blogspot for web applications.
  • (google, python, hosting, 2148 saves, 100 inbound links, 26 diggs)
• [WEB2.0] Mulling On Google App Engine, al3x.net
  • Alex Payne (of Twitter)’s thoughts on the new appengine
  • (google, hosting, web2.0, 4 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [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, themes, 3 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS] The Great WordPress Attack, psionmark.com
  • If you aren’t running WP 2.5, your site is probably hacked.
  • (wordpress, 5 saves, 6 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] The Case Against Overtime, caffeinatedcoder.com
  • Compelling arguments as to why you shouldn’t work overtime as a programmer.
  • (career, balance, programming, 6 saves, 3 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [WPDESIGN] Raising Personal Standard for Paid WordPress Themes, wpdesigner.com
  • What a WordPress theme should include.
  • (wordpress, themes, 6 saves, 10 inbound links)

Delicious Links – 20 links – friendfeed, blogging, javascript, psychology, startup

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can see me add them in real time on Friend Feed.

• [BITTORRENT] Protect Your Privacy When Downloading, lifehacker.com
  • Two tips for not being caught as the nasty pirate that you are.
  • (bittorrent, torrents, 31 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider, problogger.net
  • Great examples of how to use the WordPress page feature. I wish I didn’t have so many damn problems with it on WordPress.com (can’t remove it from my theme head, trackback prob).
  • (blogging, wordpress, tips, 581 saves, 46 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 7 Blogging Statistics Rules – There is Life After Page Views, hanselman.com, via:raganwald.com
  • From the article: ” If you post a Gallery or a List or anything post with a Prime Number and the word “Rules” in the title, you’ll get traffic. You post smart, compelling content, you need to be wicked smart before folks take note.”
  • (blogging, statistics, 16 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] A Caffeine Inspired Interview with Jeff Atwood from CodingHorror.com, caffeinatedcoder.com
  • “The only difference between good and great blogs is that the good bloggers kept writing until they became great bloggers.” — Jeff Atwood
  • (blogging, writing, tips, codinghorror, 3 saves, 6 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Group Interview: What Do Online Advertisers Look For in a Website?, dailyblogtips.com
  • Daniel gets the skinny on how to sell ads on your website.
  • (advertising, blogging, 20 saves, 8 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [FRIENDFEED] A Few FriendFeed Treats Out There, jeffisageek.net
  • A list of the cool little hacks people have made for FF so far.
  • (friendfeed, 5 saves, 5 diggs)
• [FRIENDFEED] Friendfeed 2018, blogoscoped.com, via:winextra.com
  • The future of Friend Feed.
  • (friendfeed, humour, web2.0, 5 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] Share that link on FriendFeed using FeedDemon, winextra.com
  • Share items on FF using Feed Demon.
  • (rss, friendfeed)
• [FRIENDFEE] The FriendFeed Playground, ffapps.com
  • Avi put together a FF apps site for pointing to the cool apps people are building around FF.
  • (friendfeed)
• [GEEK] Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground, wired.com, via:reddit.com
  • Which geek are you? I’m 1-5 but thankfully not 6.
  • (geek, 2 saves, 3 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [GREASEMONKEY] How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey, joanpiedra.com
  • Tips on accessing jQuery inside your Greasemonkey scripts.
  • (greasemonkey, jquery, javascript, programming, 46 saves, 15 inbound links)
• [JAVASCRIPT] Great JavaScript presentation by John Resig, lazycoder.com
  • I started using jQuery a lot this week and its friggin awesome. I must watch this video.
  • (jquery, javascript, 2 saves)
• [MARKETING] Polarize Me, fastcompany.com, via:37signals.com
  • The ‘Made to Stick’ guys talk about how in order to have people love you, you have to decide who will hate you. No walking the middle line.
  • (marketing, branding, 43 saves, 36 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Why I will never get another date, jennifer-mccarthy.blogspot.com
  • The truth of social web apps exposed.
  • (socialsoftware, humor)
• [STARTUPS] How To Use Perks and Rewards in Startups to Get The Best Talent, instigatorblog.com
  • Anywhere could hire me away if they offered me the best-of-breed source control, chat, backup and allowed me to attend conferences.
  • (startup, hiring, 6 saves, 7 inbound links, 37 diggs)
• [STARTUPS] The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6, blog.pmarca.com
  • Long read, but the section on incentives/disincentives are particularly interesting and applicable to all aspects of your life.
  • (entrepreneurship, psychology, startup, 304 saves, 54 inbound links, 13 diggs)
• [WORDPRESS] FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin, blog.slaven.net.au
  • Display the Friend Feed discussion on your WordPress blog.
  • (friendfeed, wordpress, 9 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [WORKHACKS] The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities, uie.com, via:labnotes.org
  • The KJ-Technique is a method for getting the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ as fast as possible without getting bogged down by borderline cases.
  • (workhacks, psychology, 234 saves, 23 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [XBOX360] REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data, duncanmackenzie.net
  • Public rest API for Xbox Gamertag. Gives you an XML file.
  • (xbox360, rest, 7 saves, 5 inbound links)

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• [BLOGGING] The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere, readwriteweb.com, via:friendfeed.com
  • Examples for bloggers on where to find and how to manage all the conversations that are happening OUTSIDE of your blog about your blog content.
  • (blogging, 90 saves, 71 inbound links, 26 diggs)
• [CODE] Google Code University, code.google.com, via:lazycoder.com
  • Google is putting together tutorials about programming subjects for university level. Good refreshers.
  • (programming, google, code, tutorials, 2628 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [DIGG] 12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users, doshdosh.com
  • This is a *KILLER* list. The extensions I’ve already tried on the list are must haves, and the rest look even better.
  • (digg, tools, 72 saves, 28 inbound links, diggs)
• [EMAIL] Do Not Reply, donotreply.com, via:codinghorror.com
  • Many companies use @donotreply.com for their automatic emails. What they don’t realize is that donotreply.com is a real web address and he’s posting the contents of the emails! IT security at its worst.
  • (email, 138 saves, 82 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [FRIENDFEED] FriendFeed is for Lurkers too, oracleappslab.com
  • How FriendFeed is becoming a user generated content repository for the parts of the web that people are actively creating.
  • (friendfeed, 2 saves)
• [FRIENDFEED] Friendfeed Grid, blogoscoped.com, via:louisgray.com
  • A random look at the people on Friend Feed.
  • (friendfeed, visualization, 30 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] Hack to Get an RSS Feed from FriendFeed Search Results, lifestreamblog.com, via:techcrunch.com
  • FriendFeed is a lifestreaming aggregator. Here’s some tips for getting RSS feeds from it.
  • (friendfeed, 4 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] How FriendFeed Became Internet Famous, runningwithfoxes.com, via:friendfeed.com
  • An analysis about how FF became the “IT” webapp of 2008.
  • (friendfeed, 4 saves)
• [INTERNET] George Clooney, esquire.com
  • Esquire sits down with Clooney and goes through a Google search of his life. Interesting from the geeky POV of all the information that is out there, and how accurate is it, really?
  • (interview, humor, via, 120 saves, 72 inbound links, 25 diggs)
• [JAVASCRIPT] EJS – JavaScript Templates, embeddedjs.com, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • I might be able to use this with rss2html to work with Yahoo Pipes formatted data
  • (javascript, programming, erb, 36 saves, 8 inbound links, 20 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] 5 Tools to Track How Much Time you Waste while Online, makeuseof.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • I recommend RescueTime out of the list they have. The best suggestion might be “unplug your internet connection when you’re trying to get work done”
  • (lifehacks, timetracking, 223 saves, 26 inbound links, 959 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs, collegedegree.com, via:readwriteweb.com
  • Huge list of lifehack blogs organized by topic.
  • (lifehacks, 596 saves, 71 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Wisdom from the way-out edge, theage.com.au, via:chipsquips.com
  • From the article: ” Reward risk, risk is good. Trust crazy people. Believe in yourself, everyone else is faking it. Find the real problem to solve.”
  • (innovation, technology, software, lifehacks, 7 saves)
• [MARKETING] Nomadic Growth: Moving to Greener Pastures, skelliewag.org
  • In order to keep expanding your audience you have to keep reaching out to new plateaus.
  • (marketing, blogging, 6 saves, 2 inbound links, 16 diggs)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Relationships are complicated, factoryjoe.com
  • What works better: asking users to explicitly list their relationship with people, or viewing how they interact with people and deducing the relationships from there?
  • (socialsoftware, relationships, 2 saves, 6 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] How To Use Perks and Rewards in Startups to Get The Best Talent, instigatorblog.com
  • Anywhere could hire me away if they offered me the best-of-breed source control, chat, backup and allowed me to attend conferences.
  • (startup, hiring, 4 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [TWITTER] favotter, favotter.matope.com
  • It’s like twitter.com/popular — a list of tweets that have been favorited a lot. Pretty entertaining.
  • (twitter, mashup, socialnetworking, 43 saves, 17 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site, insidecrm.com
  • If you run a website then there’s some gems in here you haven’t thought of in a while. In depth advice on each item is available.
  • (webdesign, 1378 saves, 86 inbound links, 1749 diggs)
• [WORDPRESS] 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5, technosailor.com, via:andybeard.eu
  • I can’t wait until we get some of this stuff on WordPress.com
  • (wordpress, blogging, 60 saves, 46 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [WORDPRESS] More WordPress Theme Viewer Screenshots, winextra.com
  • Preview screenshots of the new WordPress theme viewer
  • (wordpress, themes, 4 inbound links)
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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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•   [DELICIOUS/STUMBLEUPON] Delicious Stumbles v2.0
  StumbleUpon upgraded their interface last nice so that means you get a new version of Delicious Stumbles.

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• Installing ruby-prof as a plugin on Rails 1.2
• rails/mysql: Load your production database on to your development server
• How not to replace WEBrick with Thin

Tags: blogging, code, design, gamers, links, programming, tools, twitter, workhacks

Delicious Links – 17 links – programming, stumbleupon, blogging, windows, copyright

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• [BLOGGING] Bloggers Beware: Nigerian Fraud Has Evolved Into Display and Text Link Ad Solicitations, deepjiveinterests.com
  • Those people who want to pay you money might be scamming you to GET your money.
  • (blogging, spam, 12 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging, codinghorror.com
  • When good blogs become silenced we all lose.
  • (blogging, 26 saves, 21 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [BOOKS] Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The nature of free, journal.neilgaiman.com
  • From the article: ” the problem isn’t that books are given away or that people read books they haven’t paid for. The problem is that the majority of people don’t read for pleasure.”
  • (books, copyright, 18 saves, 49 inbound links)
• [CODE] Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry?, caffeinatedcoder.com, via:raganwald.com
  • From the article: ” The comments that drove this home was the one said my opinion should be discounted because I break the programming languages world into –languages by Microsoft– and –other languages–.”
  • (.net, programming, code, 5 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [CODE] What Does It Take To Become A Grandmaster Developer?, moserware.com
  • From the article: ” The way to the top is filled with things getting harder. There are no shortcuts. Sorry.”
  • (programming, learning, career, 216 saves, 20 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [CREEPY] CUBOCC, cubo.cc, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • The web is a weird, weird place.
  • (design, flash, interactive, animation, 403 saves, 100 inbound links, 40 diggs)
• [DELICIOUS] Welcome to del.ishli.st!, del.ishli.st, via:lifehacker.com
  • Use delicious bookmarks to build a wishlist.
  • (del.icio.us, wishlist, shopping, 470 saves, 61 inbound links)
• [FREELANCING] 1000 True Fans, kk.org, via:codinghorror.com
  • Great take on being successful. 1000 people spending $100 on you a year is a $100,000 salary. Second amazing article I’ve seen from this blog, gonna have to subscribe.
  • (freemium, freelancing, success, 937 saves, 100 inbound links, 12 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Messy Productivity: Why Perfection Will Slow You Down, anywired.com
  • Getting things done means letting go of being perfect
  • (psychology, gtd, lifehacks, 2 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [PERL] Strawberry Perl, strawberryperl.com
  • Perl 5.10.0 for Windows
  • (perl, windows, programming, 173 saves, 31 inbound links)
• [RUBY] Monkey Patching Ruby, just like in The Matrix – Whoa!, blog.semanticart.com, via:ruby.reddit.com
  • Metaprogramming with Keanu Reeves
  • (programming, ruby, tutorial, fun, 8 saves)
• [SOCIALMEDIA] IM Etiquette: 8 Tips from Top Social Media Users, reemabeidoh.com, via:doshdosh.com
  • How to promote your website without making an ass of yourself.
  • (socialnetworking, digg, etiquette, 7 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] The Second Order Network Effect, avc.blogs.com
  • One Facebook app developer is building its own network of Facebook apps and click-sharing WITHIN Facebook. Looks like how blog networks happened, but within Facebook.
  • (facebook, socialsoftware, gaming, 17 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] Startups Must Hire The Right People And Watch Every Penny. Or Fail., techcrunch.com
  • Some good advice on what is needed for startup success.
  • (startup, business, hiring, 140 saves, 80 inbound links, 15 diggs)
• [STUMBLEUPON] My StumbleUpon Favorites, linklusion.com, via:techipedia.com
  • Tool for taking your bookmarks out of StumbleUpon and making them into bookmarks for your local computer.
  • (stumbleupon, 41 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [STUMBLEUPON] StumbleUpon Alerter, blog.adamant.com.au, via:doshdosh.com
  • Little app for your system tray that monitors your “discoveries” to see how popular they get.
  • (stumbleupon, tools, 28 saves, 10 inbound links, 100 diggs)
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• Searching for the Perfect Inline Code Documentation Tool
  • I have an intense love automatic documentation generation. Nothing makes me more tickled pink than seeing code and documentation living side by side in perfect harmony. I hate seeing documentation put on the company intranet only to diverge from the code it’s supposed to explain as the days go…
• Mashing Your MP3 Music Collection with Last.FM
  • One geek itch I’ve been wanting to scratch is to be able to listen to my MP3 collection using the recommendations from Last.FM. I’ve you’ve never heard of Last.FM, it is a music service that lets you listen music as a radio station over the internet. I’ve been using it for a year and…
• Delicious Links – 19 links – tips, google, music, code, blogging

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IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

• [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
  • Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner . Based off of a pipe by romzombie . IDT Labs is a blog for news announcements about software, tools or blog themes created by InternetDuctTape.com .…
• [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
  • There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…

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Delicious Links – 19 links – tips, google, music, code, blogging

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• [BLOGGING] The Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal, doshdosh.com
  • Brilliant tip and way to keep mindful of your goals.
  • (blogging, 7 saves, 20 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] What’s it Like to Run a Popular Blog?, skelliewag.org
  • Skelliewag talks about her meteoric success and what’s different about having 3500 readers vs the 100 or so she had just a few short months ago.
  • (blogging, success, tips, 7 saves, 9 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [BOOKS] Inside Google Book Search: Your library, my library, booksearch.blogspot.com
  • You can keep track of the books you’ve read with Google library, and limit your book searches to only the books you’ve already read.
  • (google, library, books, 2 saves, 13 inbound links)
• [CODE] Programmers At Work, programmersatwork.wordpress.com
  • New website about the 1980’s book.
  • (code, 26 saves, 11 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Rampant Plagiarism, mightygodking.com, via:io9.com
  • The rampant plagiarism of the comics industry is revealed!
  • (comics, photoshop, 12 saves, 22 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] 10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed, blogoscoped.com
  • Some quick tips for the new service that everyone’s blogging about.
  • (friendfeed, tips, socialnetworking, 35 saves, 19 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [GMAIL] Gmail Tips and Tricks – 35 Cool Gmail Hacks, botw.org, via:doshdosh.com
  • Yes, we’ve seen a lot of them before. But a good collection.
  • (gmail, tips, lifehacks, 368 saves, 15 inbound links, 67 diggs)
• [GOOGLE] The Real Story: Why ComScore’s Google Clicks are Flat, seoblackhat.com
  • Google Adsense changes are why adclicks are down. Buy Google stock because the market is full of idiots.
  • (google, 11 saves, 26 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [HUMOR] Mobile Desktop, improveverywhere.com, via:codinghorror.com
  • Improv Everywhere brings their desktop computers to Starbucks.
  • (humor, geek, 130 saves, 100 inbound links, 3059 diggs)
• [HUMOR] Stuff White People Like, stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • Recursion at its best. White people like Stuff White People Like.
  • (funny, humour, 2364 saves, 100 inbound links, 104 diggs)
• [LASTFM] Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience, build.last.fm, via:del.icio.us
  • Last.FM is promoting community created tools that use the service.
  • (last.fm, music, tools, mashup, 386 saves, 82 inbound links, 17 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble, secretgeek.net
  • No solutions, but a discussion of the information overload we’re all experiencing.
  • (productivity, overload, 12 saves, 10 inbound links)
• [MUSIC] The Filter Releases New Version of Music Recommendation Software, readwriteweb.com
  • Playlist generator from your iTunes library
  • (itunes, LastFM, music, mp3, 17 saves, 3 inbound links, 27 diggs)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] FriendFeed Changelog, changelog.friendfeed.com
  • wth? A web app that publishes its new features via it’s version control changelog.Brilliant.
  • (friendfeed, transparency, code, socialsoftware, 16 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize, wired.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Interview with the guy who is building a better recommendation engine using psychology instead of math.
  • (psychology, algorithm, netflix, datamining, 71 saves, 35 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [SOFTWARE] Rethinking Recommendation Engines, readwriteweb.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Damn good point in this one. The human psychology behind recommendations is what makes recommendations fail. Instead of telling use what we like, just remove what we’re NOT going to like.
  • (recommendations, personalization, 135 saves, 35 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [TWITTER] Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls, russellbeattie.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • From the article: ” Twitter, however, has almost a million members, a thriving community, lots of discussions and yet doesn’t have spam or troll issues. If you step back for a second and think about it, that’s pretty amazing.”
  • (twitter, community, spam, 80 saves, 51 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS] Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP, geeksaresexy.blogspot.com
  • I don’t know why I never did this before.
  • (wordpress, windows, 361 saves, 92 inbound links, 7 diggs)
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• How to Explain RSS to Normal People – 2008 Edition
  • As a geek who enjoys spending too much time on the internet, I like RSS almost as much as delicious toast. As a blogger, RSS is the shiznitz because it lets you consume a lot more information and it makes it easier for other people to read your blog without having to drop by every few days to see if…
• I Can Has Ruby?
  • I have a new tumblelog for ruby stuff.
• How to delete your Tumblr tumblelog with TumblrCleanr
  • There’s one feature missing on Tumblr: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every individual…
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IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

• [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
  • Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
• [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
  • There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…

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• Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out
  • http://pastie.caboo.se/159372  Rake::RDocTask.new(:rdoc) do |rd| # rd.external # run the rdoc process as an external shell # rd.main = “name” # ‘name’ will be the initial page displayed # rd.rdoc_dir = “html” # set the output directory # rd.rdoc_file = [] # List of files…
• Rake: Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file
  • There’s probably an easier way to do this. http://pastie.caboo.se/159362  # Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file def local_requires(source) results = [] File.open(source,’r’).each_line do |line| if line =~ /require [‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”]/…
• I Can Has RSS?I’ve switched to FeedBurner for RSS support . And set up full feeds, thanks to Alex . (I had no idea that they were turned off!)
• Bulk updating Gem sourcegem install allison Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org I swear to god that rubyforge is actually a humongous peer to peer network made up from stealing our bandwidth when we do a gem install.
• Rake Tip: force tasks to run based on operating systemhttp://pastie.caboo.se/158812 task :windows_only do raise “Must be run from Windows, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin/ end task :linux_only do raise “Must be run from Linux, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/ end
• Rake TipBAD: s.gsub(/.rb$/,’.exe’) GOOD:  File.basename(s).ext(‘exe’)
• Rails: how to delete ActiveRecords to a recycling bin
  • The contenders: acts_as_paranoid – 2005-09-17  Creates a delete_at column and overrides finders to ignore columns with deleted_at set. Last release was 2005-12-20, about 1600 downloads. Around ~100 blog mentions. This guy is using it instead of acts_as_trashable   Reported not working on…
• validates_presence_of and validates_length_of
  • Pick one : validates_presence_of :snausages validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3 OR validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3, :allow_nil => true I broke my app because of not including allow_nil grep validates_length_of app/models/*.rb | grep -v allow_nil // engtech  …

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Delicious Links – 20 links – blogging, programming, ruby, photography, copyright

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• [BLOGGING] Feel Free to Steal My Content, zenhabits.net
  • ZenHabits goes open source
  • (copyright, opensource, blogging, 63 saves, 54 inbound links, 212 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] My next book: the story of blogs, wordyard.com
  • Scott Rosenberg’s next book is the history of blogs
  • (blogging, books, history, 10 saves, 7 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] What Are Your Anti-Memes?, smoothspan.wordpress.com
  • Some thoughts on the type of articles one of my fav tech bloggers usually skips over.
  • (blogging, reader)
• [CODE] Let The System Design Itself, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • From the article: ” 1) runs all the tests, 2) contains no duplication, 3) expresses every idea you want to express, 4) minimal number of classes and methods. When you work with these rules, you pay attention only to micro-design matters.”
  • (programming, development, 6 saves)
• [CODE] Rich Programmer Food, steve-yegge.blogspot.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Why programmers need to know how to write a compiler. I really enjoyed reading this one.
  • (programming, compiler, 125 saves, 100 inbound links)
• [CODE] Valued Lessons: Garlic Programmers for Silver Code?, valuedlessons.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • How can you measure programmer productivity when the biggest factor is the code base they are working on?
  • (maintenance, productivity, programming, 8 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [COMMENTS] Reading Apptitude Questions rather than Captcha, lemurcatta.org
  • Interesting idea: prove that the reader read the article before posting a comment.
  • (spam, captcha, 3 saves)
• [GAMERS] 18 Undiscovered Websites Every Gamer Should Know, dailybits.com
  • Some cool stuff in there, like the indie game awards
  • (games, gamers, 684 saves, 40 inbound links, 2227 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Let Me Save You $40: Here’s How to Be Happy, enfranchisedmind.com, via:codinghorror.com
  • 7 things you can change about your outlook to life that will greatly improve your enjoyment of it.
  • (lifehacks, happiness, 13 saves, 6 inbound links)
• [LIFEHACKS] New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Actually Helps Rescue your Time, blog.rescuetime.com
  • RescueTime now has goal tracking so you can limit yourself to checking feeds for only three hours a week, for example.
  • (rescuetime)
• [LIFEHACKS] The Five Browser Shortcuts Everyone Should Know, codinghorror.com
  • Have a better experience surfing the web with these shortcuts. There were a few I didn’t know.we
  • (shortcuts, keyboard, lifehacks, productivity, 55 saves, 25 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [MEDIA] What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media, avc.blogs.com
  • A look at how children consume mass media
  • (media, trends, 194 saves, 69 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [PHOTOS] A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging, powazek.com
  • Cool trick to add copyright notices to your photos without having to worry about people seeing them unless they’re trying to copy them.
  • (copyright, photography, css, 146 saves, 27 inbound links, 15 diggs)
• [PHOTOS] Namexif (Rename EXIF Photos), digicamsoft.com, via:noheat.com
  • Rename your photos by date. Uses the info from your camera rather than the file date.
  • (photography, software, freeware, photo, rename, 414 saves, 78 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [RAILS] 10 Alternative Ruby Web Frameworks, rbazinet.wordpress.com, via:lazycoder.com
  • (ruby, framework, webdev, rubyonrails, 55 saves, 6 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [RAILS] How to ruin a Rails project, dataconstellation.com, via:labnotes.org
  • How many of these have you done?
  • (ruby, rails, RubyOnRails, 86 saves, 11 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [RAILS] Ruby on Rails Handbook, railshandbook.com, via:virtualhosting.com
  • Tons of cheatsheets and tutorials
  • (rubyonrails, 872 saves, 57 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [RUBY] TreeTop, treetop.rubyforge.org, via:blog.zenspider.com
  • ruby extension to make it easy to create new expression grammars
  • (ruby, parser, treetop, dsl, 214 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS] WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me!, blahblahtech.com, via:dailyblogtips.com
  • When people come to your blog via a social bookmarking site, it will welcome them and prompt them to add you as a friend.
  • (wordpress, plugins, blogging, stumbleupon, 204 saves, 72 inbound links, 564 diggs)
• [WRITING] That to This, randsinrepose.com
  • 10 tips Rands learned that made him a better writer
  • (writing, tips, blogging, rands, 26 saves, 10 inbound links)
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This Week at Internet Duct Tape

Internet Duct Tape is my blog where I talk about software, technology, blogging and other geeky subjects.

• Year in Review – Most Popular Posts of 2007
  • Year in Review
• My Favorite Albums of 2007
  • New Year’s Resolutions for 2008: release my “Best of” lists in the beginning of January, not at the end of January.
• Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
  • Popular social bookmarking site Reddit has announced a great new feature: users can create their own sub-reddit. What does this mean in English? Users and communities can create their own social bookmarking sites around specific topics: blogging, wordpress, specific programming languages, etc but…
• How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
  • I’ve been slumming through the support forums at answers.yahoo.com lately and this is a question I see come up often: how do I download a video and put it on my electronic device? More and more consumer electronics devices that can play videos, but that means we have to learn more about the big,…
• Delicious Links – 20 links – writing, programming, javascript, jquery, testing
  • Tags: javascript, jquery, programming, writing

This Week at IDT Labs

IDT Labs is where I announce new software I’m working on.

• [PIPES] Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions
  My Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions pipe works again. It can give you an RSS feed of the latest blogs that links to your blog.
• [GREASEMONKEY] Userscripts.org Popular Scripts v0.2
  Updated my script for identifying the most popular Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org

Tags: blogging, copyright, lifehacks, photography, productivity, programming, ruby, rubyonrails

Best of Feeds – 19 links – blogging, inspiration, writing, design, apple

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).

• [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

Best of Feeds – 20 links – geek, movies, blogging, programming, xbox360

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).

• [CODE] DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
  • High geek alert on this one. Not for non-programmers.
  • (programming, dna, science, algorithms)
  • (ds9a.nl, 479 saves, 33 inbound links, 11 diggs)
• [XBOX360] TVersity
  • Another program for streaming divx to xbox360
  • (streaming, media, server, xbox360)
  • (tversity.com, 429 saves, 100 inbound links, 16 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
  • might be a good idea to give one of these a try when the blog well is dry
  • (blogging, writing, tips, inspiration)
  • (problogger.net, 289 saves, 8 diggs)
• [CODE] Choosing a Distributed Version Control System
  • And here I am wishing we could move to subversion of cvs/rcs
  • (versioncontrol, subversion, git, svn, programming, mercurial)
  • (dribin.org, 226 saves)
• [CODE] The Cults of Programming
  • where do you fit in?
  • (programming, culture, funny, development, code)
  • (mikeash.com, 57 saves, 3 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [BROWSER] How to make an Internet Explorer voodoo doll
  • so you can stick pins in it when IE drives you crazy
  • (IE, geek, humor, craft)
  • (chigarden.com, 47 saves, 1 diggs)
• [XBOX360] Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player
  • Streaming DivX to XBOX360
  • (xbox360)
  • (paininthetech.com, 45 saves, 3 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [PRESENTATIONS] HTML Slidy
  • Framework for doing presentations in HTML instead of powerpoint.
  • (presentation, slide, webdesign)
  • (w3.org, 42 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [FATBLOGGING] Weight Loss: New Year’s weight loss hacks
  • A few tips from lifehacker
  • (health, diet, lifehacker)
  • (lifehacker.com, 33 saves, 40 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [MOVIES] Chart Shows Most Post-Apocalyptic Movie Of All Time
  • The most post-apocalyptic movie award goes to…
  • (movies, scifi, apocalypse)
  • (io9.com, 15 saves)
• [WORDS] The trashing of zen: a rant
  • On the dilution of the word Zen
  • (zen, language)
  • (scottberkun.com, 7 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [BLOG] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees!
  • I’ve used that title before. Print reporter on switching to online publishing only.
  • (media, journalism, blogging)
  • (kara.allthingsd.com, 7 saves, 27 inbound links)
• [MOVIES] 15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
  • More geek movies to look forward to in 2008
  • (geek, movies)
  • (io9.com, 6 saves, 6 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [RSS] New Year’s Resolution: Keeping Head Above Water With RSS Feeds
  • Tips for managing too many RSS feeds
  • (rss, feeds)
  • (smoothspan.wordpress.com, 4 saves)
• [BLOGGING] Why It Is Better To Network With Non Probloggers
  • You can build a bigger relationship with “smaller” bloggers
  • (blogging, relationships)
  • (bloggingmix.com, 2 saves, 3 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Making Social Software for Real People
  • quote: The reward must be in the using of the thing.
  • (delicious, jonudell, socialsoftware)
  • (web1979.com, 2 saves)
• [RAILS] TechCrunch Comments About Zed Shaw
  • Such a great followup to Zed Shaw’s rant
  • (zedshaw, rails)
  • (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
• [GAMERS] The first and last Portal craft of ’08: Custom Companion Cube tissue box cover
  • Companion cube, I love you.
  • (portal, gamers)
  • (destructoid.com)
• [MOVIES] Ten Most Anticipated Geek Films of 2008
  • To look forward to
  • (geek, movies)
  • (bigtmac68.wordpress.com, 7 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
  • Anecdote by David Pogue on how the latest generation sees nothing wrong with copying
  • (copyright, law, ethics, morality)
  • (nytimes.com, 41 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

• Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
  • The thesis behind the book is simple: if you look at the popular media culture over time it is becoming more and more complex. There have always been avant garde examples that wove complex stories but over time the same techniques are used in mainstream pop culture. IE: It is becoming common place…
• Fat Blogging 101 – Weight Loss Tips
  • 21 tips for losing weight in the New Year
• Best of Feeds – 14 links – security, gmail, google, testing, dns
  • gmail, google, security

This Week at IDT Labs

• [WORDPRESS] Category Resizer v1.0
  • WordPress Category Resizer 2008/01/02 – v1.0 – BUGFIX: newer versions of WordPress.com broke this script – BUGFIX: will run on any WordPress install, not just WordPress.com – BUGFIX: now works when you have less than three categories – added automatic update check – Tested with WordPress.com…
• [WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja v0.5
  • Comment Ninja v0.5 2008/01/02 – 0.5 don’t display comment ninja in mass-edit mode, since it doesn’t work on that mode wordpress.com added avatars to the comment display and they were being sent in emails on multi-author blogs it grays out the comments you can’t edit IDT Labs is a…

Tags: blogging, geek, media, movies, programming, xbox360

Best of Feeds – 11 links – facebook, blogging, google, reader, stupidity

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).

• [SEO] The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
  • (seo, blogging, marketing, tips, blogs, google)
  • (seobook.com, 1152 saves, 100 inbound links, 100 diggs)
• [IDEAS] The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
  • (creativity, ideas, writing, blogging)
  • (skelliewag.org, 635 saves, 67 inbound links, 902 diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript
  • Technical look at Facebook Beacon aka “how the hell did my Xmas gifts for Timmy show up in my Facebook news feed?!”
  • (facebook, beacon, privacy)
  • (radiantcore.com, 236 saves, 80 inbound links, 59 diggs)
• [RSS] Sink or Swim: Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups
  • Google Reader tip
  • (rss, productivity, feeds, reader)
  • (43folders.com, 100 saves, 35 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [MUSIC] thesixtyone – a music adventure
  • an online game where you increase in levels by picking out music that will become popular
  • (music, mp3, mmo)
  • (thesixtyone.com, 51 saves, 9 inbound links, 187 diggs)
• [STARTUPS] Ruthless enough for a startup?
  • Interesting look that a lot of startups that are now common names did some shady stuff in the beginning to get users.
  • (business, startup, startups)
  • (glinden.blogspot.com, 45 saves, 32 inbound links)
• [CODE] PHP in contrast to Perl
  • Completely trashes PHP
  • (php, perl, programming, comparison)
  • (tnx.nl, 40 saves, 31 inbound links, diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Facebook, you owe me one Christmas Present.
  • Because of asinine privacy settings, buying christmas presents for other people on sites completely unrelated to facebook can be broadcast to all your friends — including the intended recipients.
  • (facebook, socialsoftware, stupidity)
  • (weblog.muledesign.com, 27 saves, 18 inbound links)
• [CATS] Social Marketing Intern
  • I Can Has Cheezburger is hiring an intern
  • (jobs, lolcats, intern)
  • (centernetworks.com, 18 saves, 26 inbound links, 1674 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Twitter and the Twits
  • People reveal the truth with status updates
  • (twitter, communication)
  • (ricksegal.typepad.com, 12 saves, 9 inbound links)
• [MOVIES] Movie Sequels We Need
  • I found it funny.
  • (humor, movies, funny)
  • (wilshipley.com, 6 saves, 4 inbound links, 2 diggs)

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

Getting Started With Ruby on Rails – Week 2

I’ve fallen for the hype and started using Ruby on Rails for building database driven web applications. You can follow along with my weekly experience discovering gotchas with Ruby on Rails.

Book Review: Ruby on Rails for Dummies

I don’t have anything against the for Dummies series (one of my friends is an author), but they’re only good when you want a very general understanding of a concept. I wouldn’t recommend the series for technical books. But my local library happened to have a copy of Ruby on Rails for…

Tags: blogging, facebook

Best of Feeds – 12 links – blogging, blogs, google, mashup, comments

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).

• [IMAGES] VectorMagic | The Online Tool for Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion
  • Transform GIF/PNG/JPG to vector images that are suitable for resizing and printing big.
  • (vector, graphics, tools, converter)
  • (vectormagic.stanford.edu, 11455 saves, 100 inbound links, 2995 diggs)
• [DESIGN] How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
  • Minimalist vs grunge
  • (webdesign, inspiration, web2.0, howto)
  • (snap2objects.com, 506 saves, 25 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [TORRENTS] PickyPirate – A Metacritic-Bittorrent mashup
  • Interesting concept.
  • (bittorrent, torrent, p2p, mashup)
  • (pickypirate.com, 465 saves, 51 inbound links)
• [HUMOR] What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
  • Putting gmail through the Microsoft filter.
  • (microsoft, google, gmail, humor, design)
  • (blogoscoped.com, 351 saves, 100 inbound links, 156 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Cascades Project
  • University paper on blog ranking
  • (blogs, research, algorithms, blogging)
  • (blogcascades.org, 62 saves, 1 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Haiku Blogging
  • Less is more. Use constraints to focus yourself on the blogging activities that will net your goals.
  • (blogging, writing)
  • (problogger.net, 33 saves, 18 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [BUSINESS] 7 Ways to Guarantee Customers Never Buy From You Again
  • How to piss off customers with by trying to sell to strongly
  • (customer, marketing, customers, business)
  • (instigatorblog.com, 24 saves, 2 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [RUBY] Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn’t)
  • Ruby was designed to make you happy.
  • (rubyonrails, ruby)
  • (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com, 21 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [GEEK] 10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now?
  • History lesson for geeks
  • (history, computers, internet, technology)
  • (pcworld.com, 9 saves, 3 inbound links, 547 diggs)
• [WORDPRESS] WordCamp Israel WordPress Tips Talk
  • Long list of tips for getting started with WordPress. Auntie Spam and Comment Ninja are mentioned.
  • (blogging, tips, wordpress)
  • (lorelle.wordpress.com, 7 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS.COM] Making money with Adsense – without annoying your users: WordPress.com
  • How ads work on WordPress.com
  • (blogs, wordpress.com, hosting)
  • (pascal.vanhecke.info, 4 saves, 6 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] comparison of coComment, co.comments and commentful
  • Which comment tracking service works best?
  • (blogging, comments)
  • (nbrightside.com, 2 saves)

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

• Getting Started With Ruby on Rails – Week 1
  • Rails is a framework for building web applications: stuff like blog software, instant messaging, to-do lists, web magazines, and your favorite web comic. Word on the street is that ROR is a resource hog but the resource consumption is balanced out by how much more productive it is to develop with.…
• Best of Feeds – 13 links – geek, marketing, blogging, software
  • tags: geek, marketing, blogging, software, joyent

Tags: blogging, blogs

Best of Feeds – 13 links – geek, marketing, blogging, software

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).

• [COFFEE] Coffee Drinks Illustrated
  • Infographic showing how fancy coffees are made.
  • (coffee, illustration, visualization, design)
  • (lokeshdhakar.com, 1449 saves, 100 inbound links, 1266 diggs)
• [GEEK] The Nerd Handbook
  • Rands is so on point with this one.
  • (geek, nerd, psychology, relationships, funny)
  • (randsinrepose.com, 1385 saves, 100 inbound links, 2756 diggs)
• [GEEK] Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd’s Stick Figures
  • Wired article on XKCD
  • (xkcd, comics, wired, geek, webcomic)
  • (wired.com, 178 saves, 56 inbound links, diggs)
• [CODE] How to demo software
  • Joel Spolsky gives tips he learned from the Fogbugz world demos.
  • (presentation, software, demo, marketing, howto)
  • (joelonsoftware.com, 177 saves, 26 inbound links)
• [MYSPACE] Adults Impersonate Teen on MySpace and Leads to Tragedy
  • Horrifying story.
  • (family, crime, socialsoftware)
  • (stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com, 120 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [INTERNET] How to become famous on the Internet
  • (marketing, socialmedia)
  • (online.wsj.com, 35 saves, 8 inbound links, 638 diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Joyent: Facebook Developer Program
  • Free web hosting for Facebook application development
  • (facebook, hosting, joyent, free)
  • (joyent.com, 19 saves, 28 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 25 Headline Formulas That Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0
  • The secret is in the titles, and this is a good cheatsheet to common title formulas.
  • (blog, blogging, copywriting, headlines, titles)
  • (skelliewag.org, 11 saves, 5 inbound links, 17 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] What Causes Subscribers to Read Your Blog’s Feed?
  • It’s one thing to get them to subscribe, an entirely different battle to get them to read.
  • (blogging, feeds)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 9 saves, 8 inbound links, 37 diggs)
• [TSHIRTS] Lists: 65 T-shirt Blogs
  • That’s a lot o’ blogs.
  • (t-shirts, blogs)
  • (hideyourarms.com, 6 saves, 4 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Hit Scrapers Where It Hurts: Adsense
  • People stealing your content? Get their AdSense account revoked.
  • (spam, scraper, copyright)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 4 saves, 9 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [WEIGHTLOSS] 101 thoughts on losing 100 pounds
  • some good advice in there
  • (weightloss, fatblogging)
  • (bripblap.com)
• [TECH] Cloud Computing in Someone Else’s Cloud: The Future
  • The future of servers will be all web apps running on Amazon/IBM/Sun data centers.
  • (web2.0, saas, software)
  • (smoothspan.wordpress.com)

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

• People Are Computers Too – How Improving Applications Can Improve Your Life
  • This week I’ve been talking about code profiling and how if you want to analyze the performance of your application you need to work with large sets of data. Application efficiency isn’t free, it requires measurement, analysis and change. Unsurprisingly, performance analysis for a software…
• Programming Best Practices: Profiling
  • In programming, profiling means to measure your code and find out which parts are using the most time and the most memory. Profiling gives you performance analysis measurements so that you can optimize your program for speed and/or memory.
• How to Profile Greasemonkey Scripts with Firebug
  • Running performance analysis on Greasemonkey scripts can be a pain in the butt. They aren’t part of a webpage so standard tools for analyzing web sites don’t work… or do they?
• Best of Feeds – 19 links – blogging, tips, google, opensocial, community
  • Tags: blog, blogging, community, google, opensocial, tips

This Week at IDT Labs

• [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.09
  • I’m done. I swear. Not going to touch it for a month. Promise. 2007/11/15 version 2.09 – bug fix: vanilla WordPress and WordPress.com return spam results a little differently 2007/11/15 version 2.08 – bug fix: fixed a stupid debug statement that was breaking 2.07 – added menu option for…
• [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.07
  • Because why shouldn’t a new release happen within hours of the last one? 2007/11/15 version 2.07 – bug fix: improved slowness of displaying hidden comments – added menu option for checking for updates right now – added menu option for configuring how much spam to download at a time for modem…
• [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.06
  • Our favorite Auntie has a new version. 2007/11/15 version 2.06 – optimized, optimized, optimized – only displays 5000 comments per page to avoid stressing slower computers – will work for any language (not just english anymore) – any additional slowness is because of a bug on the WordPress end that…
• [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…

Tags: blogging, geek, marketing, software

Best of Feeds – 19 links – blogging, tips, google, opensocial, community

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.
  • (design, photography, images, inspiration, photo)
  • (ffffound.com, 3510 saves, 100 inbound links, 229 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  • How to link properly.
  • (usability, webdesign, links)
  • (codinghorror.com, 390 saves, 98 inbound links, 15 diggs)
• [TUMBLR] Third time’s a charm
  • tumlbr v3 announcement, thanks AndyC
  • (tumblr, blogging, software)
  • (blog.davidville.com, 145 saves, 100 inbound links, 523 diggs)
• [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.”
  • (writing, tips)
  • (valleywag.com, 82 saves, 36 inbound links, 11 diggs)
• [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”
  • (google, facebook, opensocial, advertising)
  • (scripting.com, 57 saves, 68 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [COMMUNITY] I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy
  • Reward systems encourage community building… or do they?
  • (community, SocialSoftware, points, SocialNetworking)
  • (benbrown.com, 46 saves, 22 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [EMAIL] 10 Tips for Managing Email Effectively
  • Good tips.
  • (email, productivity, internet)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 34 saves, 12 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [WEB2.0] Five Simple Sobriety Steps for Web 2.0 Kool Aid Boozers
  • Applies to any meme or fad.
  • (web2.0, trends, fads)
  • (micropersuasion.com, 26 saves, 9 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [OPENSOCIAL] Social Hacking
  • Blog dedicated to finding security problems with Google’s Open Social API.
  • (opensocial, hacking, socialnetworking, google)
  • (theharmonyguy.com, 26 saves, 19 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] Resources
  • A list of resources for blogging at Daily Blog Tips.
  • (blog, blogging, tips, resources, lists)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 14 saves, 24 inbound links)
• [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.”
  • (donereading, copyright, corydoctorow, interview)
  • (inclusive.wordpress.com, 9 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] BloggingZoom
  • digg for blogs
  • (blogtools, blog, socialsoftware)
  • (bloggingzoom.com, 8 saves, 100 inbound links)
• [TECHNORATI] Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old
  • Heaven forbid you’d want to search by authority over large periods of time.
  • (technorati)
  • (techcrunch.com, 7 saves, 58 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [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”
  • (information, overload)
  • (webworkerdaily.com, 6 saves, 3 inbound links, 18 diggs)
• [CODE] Requirements specification for writing a requirements specification (excerpt)
  • because even the process needs process
  • (agile, humor, programming, tips, funny)
  • (chipsquips.com, 5 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] Trust and Confidence
  • You’re judged by how you respect the confidence of others.
  • (raganwald, career, blogging)
  • (weblog.raganwald.com, 5 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS.COM] WordPress Guide to Livelihood Without Central Marketplace Dependency
  • Why the wordpress.com premium theme marketplace is a load of smelly poo.
  • (wordpress.com, wordpress)
  • (wpdesigner.com, 20 inbound links, 22 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Goodbye BlogRush – Simplehelp
  • Why Blog Rush isn’t worth the widget space
  • (blogrush, widget, blogging)
  • (simplehelp.net, 2 inbound links)
• [COMMUNITY] The Secret to Building a Popular Blog and Getting Tons of Readers
  • You need a supportive community of influencers.
  • (community, blogging, networking, tips)
  • (doshdosh.com, 31 inbound links, 10 diggs)

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

• Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes
  • When bloggers like Gina Trapani, Mark Frauenfelder, Chris Anderson, and Phillip Lennsen are honored to be collected in New York Times’ bestselling author Michael A. Banks’ new book, Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers I can’t even begin to describe how…
• How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds with Google Reader and Internet Explorer
  • 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…
• Avoid Prime Real Estate for Live.com Email Address Landrush
  • 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…
• Digest for October 2007

This Week at IDT Labs

• [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…

Tags: blog, blogging, community, google, opensocial, tips

Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes

When bloggers like Gina Trapani, Mark Frauenfelder, Chris Anderson, and Phillip Lennsen are honored to be collected in New York Times’ bestselling author Michael A. Banks’ new book, Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers I can’t even begin to describe how exciting it is to be included in the list. “Someone must be making a mistake,” went through my head several times.

From the cover of the book you can see a list of a many of my blogging heroes: Frank Warren (PostSecret), Gina Trapani (LifeHacker), Merlin Mann (43folders), Peter Rojas (EnGadget), Chris Anderson (Wired), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel

Several other sites are posting previews from their chapters in the book, so I will as well: Blogging Heroes Preview Chapter – Internet Duct Tape

Preview the Book

Here’s a list of some of the other free chapters that are available online:

• Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder
• Wired’s Chris Anderson (author of the Long Tail)
• Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani
• TechDirt’s Mike Masnick

If you spot any other chapters in the wild, drop me a comment on this blog post and I’ll add them to the list.

On Writing Blogging Heroes

Michael Banks is talking about the experience of writing Blogging Heroes.

1. Getting Started
2. Contacting the Interviewees

Pick Up Your Copy

Amazon: Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers

Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, google, tips, agile, facebook

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).

• [MOVIES] Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
  • about 8 on there I haven’t seen yet
  • (movies, film, dystopia, scifi)
  • (snarkerati.com, 1227 saves, 100 inbound links, 2012 diggs)
• [CODE] The Future of Software Development
  • Very fluffy discussion of waterfall vs agile with the hypothesis that small teams are the future.
  • (development, software, agile)
  • (readwriteweb.com, 617 saves, 54 inbound links, 734 diggs)
• [DESIGN] Top 100 User-Centered Blogs
  • centered around the user experience
  • (design, blogs, usability, resources, webdesign)
  • (virtualhosting.com, 558 saves, 72 inbound links, 45 diggs)
• [HIRING] 100 Resources to Attract, Retain and Utilize Rock Star Programmers
  • Great list of resources for hiring programmers
  • (programming, career, hiring, jobs)
  • (hrworld.com, 343 saves, 16 inbound links, 109 diggs)
• [RUBY] 10 Reasons to Learn Ruby
  • I’m drinking the koolaid.
  • (ruby, programming, rails)
  • (cyberarmy.net, 342 saves, 17 inbound links, 1028 diggs)
• [RAILS] Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months
  • Experience getting started with a Rails app.
  • (rails, rubyonrails, programming)
  • (hackd.wordpress.com, 301 saves, 17 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime
  • Guest posting and building relationships are the top two ways.
  • (blogging, marketing, tips, promotion, traffic)
  • (jonathanfields.com, 269 saves, 27 inbound links, 708 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] NOSO
  • Online web app that is focused on getting people off of their computers and interacting in meatspace.
  • (socialnetworking, Web2.0, noso)
  • (nosoproject.com, 227 saves, 100 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [GTD] Top 10 Distraction Stoppers
  • They included my “distraction free gtd” web app pack
  • (productivity, lifehacks, gtd, attention)
  • (lifehacker.com, 100 saves, 20 inbound links, 22 diggs)
• [GAMERS] I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)
  • From the article: ” Who watches the watchers? The gnome does. He watches everyone, unblinkingly.”
  • (games, halflife2, hl2, gnome, amelie)
  • (kfj.f2s.com, 83 saves, 35 inbound links, 2946 diggs)
• [CODE] Free Programming Tips are Worth Every Penny.
  • I think I’m developing a blog crush.
  • (programming, tips, code)
  • (wilshipley.com, 66 saves, 19 inbound links, 24 diggs)
• [DESIGN] What about research, interviews, and documentation?
  • Throw it at the wall and see what sticks. Good advice.
  • (research, prototyping, webapps, agile, 37signals)
  • (37signals.com, 33 saves, 3 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] Remember, This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun
  • Work should be something that you enjoy.
  • (career, inspiration, programming, fun, work)
  • (codinghorror.com, 28 saves, 15 inbound links, 15 diggs)
• [SEO] What if Google had to design for Google?
  • What the Google homepage would look like if they had to design for SEO.
  • (google, humor, seo, webdesign, funny, usability)
  • (meangene.com, 24 saves, 28 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] ‘Un-sexy is good business,’ and other rules from Scott Rafer
  • MyBlogLog founder on how to survive the market bust that’s coming in 5 months.
  • (web2.0, business, startup)
  • (foundread.com, 23 saves, 9 inbound links)
• [HALLOWEEN] Animal Halloween Costumes
  • Impressive number of Star Wars costumes.
  • (animals, funny, photos, halloween)
  • (nynerd.com, 11 saves, 6 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] The First Month: Building Something From Nothing
  • Skellie’s building traffic from nothing guide. Great tips in there, must read for beginner/intermediates.
  • (blogging, community, marketing, traffic)
  • (skelliewag.org, 8 saves, 3 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [SMO] Targeting StumbleUpon Users
  • How to build a stumbleupon community
  • (stumbleupon, socialsoftware, socialmedia, socialbookmarking)
  • (dailyblogtips.com, 7 saves, 7 inbound links)
• [IPHONE] Video Game Ideas: iPhone SDK edition
  • A ton of ideas for iPhone games. Really cool stuff.
  • (iphone, games, ideas)
  • (wilshipley.com, 7 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Missing!
  • The disappearance of Calvin and Hobbs
  • (comics, calvinandhobbs)
  • (clevescene.com, 5 saves, 4 inbound links)
• [OCD] On Being Crazy
  • From the article: ” Then I’ll have a week so dark that simply taking mail out of the mailbox seems like an epic struggle. And I remember, oh yes, right, you aren’t going away. Because you’re my brain. You’re my chemistry. You’re me.”
  • (depression, genius, programming, ocd)
  • (wilshipley.com, 2 saves, 7 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] The Wheels on the Bus
  • Why buying a bus ticket and hanging out with REAL PEOPLE might be the best thing for your startup idea. And it’s true — normal people don’t have nearly the same problems I try to fix in my own life.
  • (startups, ideas)
  • (ricksegal.typepad.com, 2 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [FACEBOOK] Inner Circle App
  • Facebook application that lets you build custom groups of friends.
  • (facebook, friends)
  • (facebook.com, 2 saves)
• [GOOGLE] Ad Blindness? How About Ad Repulsion?
  • Interesting.. make the real content look like AdSense and it becomes immediately repulsive.
  • (adsense, google)
  • (franticindustries.com, 2 inbound links)
• [OPENID] Automattic,Gravatar, and the Elusive Unified Identity
  • Automattic is making a move to providing single-sign-on using your wordpress.com IDs. Good business idea, but still scary considering I managed to lock myself out of sites using because of my wordpress.com openID.
  • (openid, gavatar, automattic, mullenwag)
  • (neomeme.net)
• [FACEBOOK] Google scared of Facebook? Puh-leeze
  • Matt skewers business 2.0 :)
  • (google, facebook)
  • (mathewingram.com)
• [PATENTS] Amazon patent foiled by lone gunman
  • That’s awesome.
  • (amazon, patent)
  • (mathewingram.com)
• [MICROSOFT] Ballmer to Web 2.0 Execs: You Have a Pulse? We’ll Give You At Least $50 Million For It.
  • developers, developers, developers. Ballmer is such an idiot.
  • (microsoft, startups)
  • (parislemon.com)
• [REDDIT] the reddit toolbar: taking social news one step closer
  • Hidden setting on reddit that puts a toolbar on outgoing links… very useful for voting without using the bookmarklet.
  • (reddit, tips)
  • (muhammadsaleem.com)
• [GEEK] Star Trek Cast
  • (geek, startrek)
  • (blog.logtar.com)

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

• How I Use Google Reader
  • “How I Use” is a new series I’m starting about the software I use on a day-to-day basis. I want share tips and tricks and to learn tips and tricks from readers sharing with me in the comments. Google Reader is a web-based RSS reader. Because it’s web-based I can access my Google…
• The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
  • Last night I finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross. Like many of the books I read these days, I heard about it from another blogger. It feels like a spiritual sequel to Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, John Brunner’s the Shockwave Rider and Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan. It is…
• Blog Action Day: Save Paper when Readers Print Your Blog
  • Today is Blog Action Day with a focus on the environment and I’m going to teach a quick CSS trick for how to save paper by reducing what gets printed when someone prints an article from your blog.
• Coworkers Considered Harmful
  • I hit a realization this weekend that I’ve hit many times before. There’s an inordinate number of times when I’m in the office late not because of my own time management failures but because of the people I work with.
• Best of Feeds – 26 links – programming, webdesign, javascript, design, tips
  • Tags: blogging, design, fun, javascript, lifehacks, programming, rails, tips, usability, web2.0, webdesign, writing

This Week at IDT Labs

• [WORDPRESS] Extract Comments or Trackbacks only from the Comments Feed
  • I’ve created two Yahoo Pipes for building filters of the comments feed on your WordPress blog so that you can see comments only or trackbacks only.
• [RSS] Tagosphere
  • Tagosphere is an example I created for Jon Udell that builds an RSS feed around a specific tag using delicious, flickr, technorati, and wordpress.com.

Tags: agile, blogging, career, facebook, funny, games, google, ideas, marketing, programming, rails, startups, tips, traffic, usability, webdesign