Weekend Reader – blogging, twitter, marketing, funny, lifehacks
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] Its about respect, winextra.com
- When do you link to someone? When you’re talking about them and want to discuss their viewpoint.
- [BLOGGING] Ten FriendFeed Visitors Beats 1,000 StumbleUpons Any Day, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Why Friend Feed is a better source of traffic than Digg and StumbleUpon
- [CODE] Business of Software Forum FAQ, discuss.joelonsoftware.com
- Good info for MicroISV developers.
- [CODE] Why I’m a better software developer than you, ytechie.com
- Hey, that describes me to a tee. :)
- [CULTURE] Shift Happens, slideshare.net
- Excellent slide show showing how the world is changing and the new culture that is emerging.
- [FACEBOOK] FaceBook In Reality, youtube.com, via:codinghorror.com
- Funny video from BBC comedy group
- [GOOGLE] Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere., googlereader.blogspot.com
- Google Reader Shares might have just become the delicious killer for me.
- [ITUNES] harmony, thirteen23.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Automatic cover art downloader for Windows
- [LIFEHACKS] Life Hack Misnomer, thegrowinglife.com
- From the article: ” Repurposing your shoe holder to organize your gadgets isn’t hacking life, it’s hacking a shoe holder. Likewise, utilities used to synchronize files don’t upgrade your life, they upgrade your computer.”
- [MARKETING] 5 Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Wrong, weburbanist.com
- Except, has the guerrilla marketing gone wrong if people are still talking about it?
- [PRODUCTIVITY] The Joy of Freeing Up Mental RAM, caffeinatedcoder.com
- Intro to Getting To Done
- [SOCIALMEDIA] Are we building Universities or Amphitheaters?, weblog.raganwald.com
- Because getting your attention is more valuable than giving your life value.
- [SOFTWARE] MoMB | The Museum of Modern Betas, momb.socio-kybernetics.net
- Looking for new stuff to try out? This has a comprehensive list of betas that are available.
- [STARTUPS] From Messes To Successes, avc.blogs.com
- Applies very well to the perception people have of Twitter
- [STARTUPS] The Coolest Business Plan Ever, ricksegal.typepad.com
- Microsoft Office metadata strikes again
- [TECH] What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman, webomatica.com
- How to figure out if tech is mainstream.
- [TWITTER] Using Twitter to track your FedEx, UPS or DHL Shipments, technofriends.in
- Neat trick, twitter @trackthis supports FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL tracking codes to send you direct messages whenever your packages change languages.
- [TWITTER] Who Should I Follow? | Twitter Friend Recommendations, whoshouldifollow.com
- REALLY excellent tool for suggesting people to follow
- [WEB2.0] Web 2.point.Mac: Developing software on Apple computers, compsci.ca
- Many of the web2.0 companies out there are using Macs as a developer platform.
- [WORDPRESS] 13 of the best WordPress plugins, davidairey.com
- Plugins for Self-hosted
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Weekend Reader – twitter, blogging, usability, webdesign, bsg
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 10 things you MUST know before you register a domain name with anyone, domainwarning.com
- Tips for picking out where to host your domain names.
- [BLOGGING] Google Analytics for Blogs, googlesystem.blogspot.com
- Google Analytics will report daily readers, incoming links, popular posts, comments added.
- [BLOGGING] Warning Labels for Bloggers, geekculture.com
- hahah… so on point.
- [CODE] The Perfect Job Interview Question, noop.nl
- How to interview programmers: “what do you not like about other people’s code?”
- [CREATIVITY] 17 Obscure Creativity-Sparking Websites, lifedev.net
- List of interesting websites that stand out from the crowd.
- [CULTURE] Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, herecomeseverybody.org
- From the article: ” However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it’s worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.”
- [FRIENDFEED] Proposal to Clean Up the FriendFeed Clutter, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Some great ideas on making FriendFeed more useful.
- [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
- And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
- [GEEK] Battlestar Galactica Backstory in 8 Minutes, io9.com
- Spoilers, of course.
- [JAVASCRIPT] Guarding in JavaScript, thoughtworker.in, via:lazycoder.com
- Very brief look at using && and || to simplify your code.
- [LIFEHACKS] 5 Productivity Nutjobs Explained, thegrowinglife.com, via:doshdosh.com
- This made me laugh. :)
- [LINUX] The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment, contentconsumer.wordpress.com
- How hard is it to switch from Windows to Linux?
- [MEDIA] The Wire as Simpson Characters, periscopestudio.com, via:kottke.org
- artist renditions of scenes from the Wire as Simpsons characters
- [PERL] Ten things I hate about Perl, pozorvlak.livejournal.com
- I absolutely hate Perl’s OO, all the referencing, and the ugliness of embedded POD. It’s hard to go back to Perl 5 after Ruby.
- [STARTUPS] Why I love working with family people, 37signals.com
- If people have the constraint of “having a life outside of work” it makes it harder to hide poor management.
- [TWITTER] The Twitter Blacklist, twitterblacklist.com
- Tool with API for identifying Twitter spammers. It works by analyzing the ratio of followers to friends with some manual intervention.
- [TWITTER] Twitter Less, Blog More!, dailyblogtips.com
- From the article: ” Why? Because your blog is your property. It should be the single most important location for you on the Internet. It should be the place where people go to when they think about you. Your blog, not Twitter”
- [TWITTER] TwitterSnooze! v0.13, twittersnooze.com
- Stop following someone for a few days.
- [WEBDESIGN] Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design, smashingmagazine.com
- [WEBDESIGN] Khoi Vinh, nytimes.com
- Interview with one of my favorite web designers.
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Delicious Links – 20 links – google, blogging, wordpress, twitter, lifehacks
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] 6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers, copyblogger.com
- Are you down with the B.L.O.G.? Yeah, you know me!
- [BLOGGING] How to Target the Right Social Media Sites, problogger.net
- Howto guide for bloggers on using sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon to generate traffic.
- [BLOGGING] the thorny issue of blog comment ownership, nbrightside.com
- Who owns a comment?
- [CODE] Google REST Search API, blogoscoped.com
- This could be useful for web apps.
- [CODE] We need a Wikipedia for data, bret.appspot.com
- Where is the open source database for map info, whitepages, movie times, music info, etc.
- [FIREFOX] Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college, sethgodin.typepad.com, via:avc.blogs.com
- From the article: ” In the lingo of Nancy Reagan, Firefox is a gateway drug.”
- [GEEK] My Cat Bubba Posts Videos and Twitters using an EeePC and Ubuntu, fsckin.com, via:webomatica.com
- It’s a pretty static video of the cat eating, but nice hack.
- [LIFEHACKS] From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours, problogger.net
- Switching to Gmail to become more productive with email.
- [LIFEHACKS] Just say NO to crap!, squawkfox.com, via:skelliewag.org
- The ultimate decluttering tip is not to consume.
- [STARTUPS] We Need A New Path To Liquidity, avc.blogs.com
- From the article: ” what happens when a company gets purchased: The service languishes. The team leaves. It stops getting better. And often gets worse.”
- [STARTUPS] What the New York Times “death by blogging” story got right., calacanis.com
- From the article: ” In some ways I think I’ve realized that life is just a big video game and if one game doesn’t work out you put another quarter in and try again.”
- [TWITTER] Improving Twitter, kungfugrippe.com
- Merlin Mann’s ideas for how to improve twitter. He’s one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter
- [TWITTER] Twubble, crazybob.org
- Twitter friend of a friend finder.
- [WEB2.0] AppEngine World: your one-stop resource for Google App Engine, appengineworld.com, via:marshallk.com
- AppEngine news aggregator. I wish I had an AppEngine account :(
- [WEB2.0] Google App Engine, code.google.com
- Google releases blogspot for web applications.
- [WEB2.0] Mulling On Google App Engine, al3x.net
- Alex Payne (of Twitter)’s thoughts on the new appengine
- [WORDPRESS] Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point, themeshaper.com
- Ian is releasing his Sandbox-plus-plus theme with some stuff from BluePrint CSS. I’ve been waiting 9 months for this. :)
- [WORDPRESS] The Great WordPress Attack, psionmark.com
- If you aren’t running WP 2.5, your site is probably hacked.
- [WORKHACKS] The Case Against Overtime, caffeinatedcoder.com
- Compelling arguments as to why you shouldn’t work overtime as a programmer.
- [WPDESIGN] Raising Personal Standard for Paid WordPress Themes, wpdesigner.com
- What a WordPress theme should include.
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Delicious Links – 20 links – tools, gamers, workhacks, code, links
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.
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- [BITTORRENT] Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations, torrentfreak.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
- Pretty cool. Then when from 20 servers and 4 days to update clients to 2 servers and 4 hours to update clients.
- [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.
- [CODE] insomnia and productivity, sob.apotheon.org
- hack mode
- [FRIENDFEED] Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves, louisgray.com
- List of tech bloggers who are on friendfeed
- [GAMERS] Animal Crossing Is Tragic, animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com
- Sad little tale of a gamer who shared Animal Crossing with his/her dying mother.
- [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] Warlords Online, warlords-online.com, via:lazycoder.com
- Online MPORG based on Puzzle Quest
- [LINKS] Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things, readwriteweb.com, via:twitter.com
- Some suggestions for ‘best of the weird web’
- [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.
- [TECH] The real reason I left my career in tech, backinskinnyjeans.com
- What women have to deal with being in the hightech workplace
- [TWITTER] 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe, flowingdata.com
- Some cool examples of visualizing data
- [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.
- [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] Administrative Debris, tomayko.com
- Content is everything… then why do we display so much stuff that isn’t content?
- [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.
- [WEBHACKS] Down for everyone or just me?, downforeveryoneorjustme.com
- Find out if a website is unreachable for the entire net or just your machine
- [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.
- [WORKHACKS] 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity, matthewpaulmoore.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Good advice, even if none of is groundbreaking.
- [WORKHACKS] 9 Simple Strategies to Getting Things Done At Work, lyved.com
- Tricks for being more productive in the office
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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.
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
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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
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Delicious Links – 20 links – geek, twitter, sleephacks, design, programming
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.
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- [CODE] The Years of Experience Myth, codinghorror.com
- It’s more important to hire smart people who get things done than masters of the domain
- [COMMUNITY] 4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog, problogger.net
- Reasons against censoring dissenters
- [COPYRIGHT] The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped, portfolio.com, via:techcrunch.com
- An interview with the kid who hacked Media Defender copyright police.
- [GEEK] 10 Breeds of PC User Identified and Explained, anywired.com
- This was great. I’m a bit of 5, 7, and 9 with maybe a dash of 10.
- [GEEK] George Lucas Will Sell Your Dreams For Candy, io9.com
- Star Wars merchandising that never was. High quality artwork.
- [GOOGLE] How 404 pages work in Google Toolbar Beta 5, mattcutts.com
- The new Google Toolbar won’t display your custom 404 page if it’s less than 512 bytes long.
- [HIRING] The Naive Approach to Hiring People, weblog.raganwald.com
- Really excellent read by raganwald on why interviewing candidates is a Bayesian filtering problem instead of a if-then problem.
- [JAVASCRIPT] XPath Overnight, ejohn.org, via:lazycoder.com
- XPath is taking over DOM traversal in javascript libraries.
- [LIFEHACKS] I Was Programmed by Tetris to be a Better Person, io9.com
- The 7 habits of highly effective form tetris players
- [MOVIES] Netflix on the PS3 or Xbox 360 Could Be a Killer App, parislemon.com
- Much agreement that this is too good to be true. If this happened it would kill the movie industry overnight.
- [PIPES] Our one year anniversary, blog.pipes.yahoo.com
- Yahoo Pipes is one year old. They have a list of tutorials
- [PIRACY] Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads, technology.timesonline.co.uk, via:l33t.reddit.com
- The UK is setting up a “three strikes” rule where pirates could be banned from having internet access.
- [SLEEPHACKS] Ask YC : How many hours do you sleep in average ?, news.ycombinator.com
- Good discussion about sleeping
- [SLEEPHACKS] Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep, fourhourworkweek.com
- Some things I haven’t heard before
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] The Complexity of the Web 2.0 World, hq.andrewshuttleworth.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
- A crazy look at what ubiquitous computing really means.
- [TWITTER] Dear LazyWeb, dearlazy.com, via:blog.twitter.com
- A questions and answers interface using Twitter as the backbone
- [TWITTER] Twitter-proxy: Any Interest?, assetbar.wordpress.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
- A look at why Twitter has such scaling issues.
- [URLS] I CAN HAZ dot COM, icanhaz.com, via:lifehacker.com
- new url shortner
- [WEBDESIGN] 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design, smashingmagazine.com
- Well researched look at what makes for effective web design
- [WEBDESIGN] Interface Screencast #1: The WordPress Dashboard, binarybonsai.com, via:wank.wordpress.com
- Screencast of the (old) WordPress dashboard, and why it sucks. A little on the long side at 30min
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- Digest for December 2007 and January 2008
- Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
- If you’re a programmer/gamer geek and looking for a gripping book that you won’t be able to put down then look no further than Halting State.
- The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use
- Don’t reinvent the wheel. It’s one of those things that’s much easier to say then it is to do, particularly when it comes to programming. Programmers suffer from a horrible mental disease called Not Invented Here Syndrome (it’s in the DSM — check if you don’t believe me). We…
- Book Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield
- Adam Greenfield is a designer and one of the guys behind Boxes and Arrows. He’s also the guy who coined the term “moblogging” for blogging from your cellphone. He’s got a knack for inventing terms because “everyware” is such a simpler name than unicomp or “ubiquitous…
- Delicious Links – 20 links – programming, community, development, twitter, lisp
- programming, community, development, twitter, lisp
This Week at IDT Labs
IDT Labs is where I announce new software I’m working on.
- [GREASEMONKEY] The Pirate Bay + Rotten Tomatoes = Crazy Delicious
This script will create links to Rotten Tomatoes while browsing the Pirate Bay.
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Delicious Links – 20 links – programming, community, development, twitter, lisp
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.
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- [BLOGGING] Absolute Guide to Losing Readers, raproject.com
- Things not to do
- [CODE] David Heinemeier Hansson step aside, Paul Graham is next to be voted off the island, weblog.raganwald.com
- The backlash against the new Arc LISP dialect
- [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.”
- [CODE] The Programmer’s Food Pyramid, osteele.com, via:labnotes.org
- Good point. Instead of writing about code, we should be reading code or writing code.
- [CODE] can lisp do what perl does easily?, groups.google.no, via:programming.reddit.com
- Ouch. Stinging roast of Perl.
- [COPYRIGHT] Better Than Free, kk.org, via:blogs.chron.com
- From the article: ” The internet is a copy machine.”
- [DESIGN] 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make, wakeuplater.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- What programmers get wrong when they try their hand at web design. I found myself nodding my head.
- [DESIGN] DOs and DON’Ts – Colour, inspirationbit.com
- advice on choosing colours
- [GAMERS] The Mass Effect, nytimes.com
- From the article: ” –Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,– she added. –But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.–“
- [GEEK] 10 Breeds of PC User Identified and Explained, anywired.com
- This was great. I’m a bit of 5, 7, and 9 with maybe a dash of 10.
- [LIFEHACKS] Applying Unix Philosophy to Personal Productivity, lifehacker.com
- A decent read if only because it’s a good refresher on unix philosophy
- [PHOTOS] 5 Image Resizing Tools to Die For, friedbeef.com
- Includes the resizer tool for GIMP/web that lets you resize only the non-important parts of images. Coolest resizer ever.
- [RSS] Rating Burner, ratingburner.com, via:louisgray.com
- What are the most popular blogs?
- [RUBY] reddit for ruby hackers, reddit.com
- Reddit has a spot just for ruby posts
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago, andybeard.eu
- A look at the Google social tools
- [SOFTWARE] Best Software Tools for the Family Tech Support Guy, killertechtips.com
- Useful tools for debugging Windows PCs
- [TWITTER] Power Twitter by 30 Boxes, 30boxes.com, via:hmmcast.com
- Firefox extension for adding new features to Twitter
- [TWITTER] When Seth Godin isn’t Seth Godin, problogger.net
- Interesting look at branding on social media sites. Someone can pretend to be you with negative consequences
- [WEBDEV] Web Developer’s Field Guide – Your Ultimate Resource, webdevelopersfieldguide.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Ok. That’s a ridiculous list of links. Everything you need to know if you’re doing anything on the web.
- [WORKHACKS] Firing on All Cylinders: Productivity Tips for the Knowledge Worker, baron.vc
- It’s isn’t about getting more done, it’s about distancing yourself from the work so that when it’s time to work you are prepared for it
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- V-Day Alert
- This is your friendly neighbourhood geek reminder that Valentine’s Day is only a week away and that now is the time to make restaurant reservations and/or go gift shopping.
- How to Install the Exception Notifier Plugin with Ruby on Rails
- Exception Notifier is a Rails plugin that will email you when an error occurs in your Rails application with full debugging information. It’s as useful as you can imagine, and running it is the difference between happy users and grumpy users who don’t use your web app because every second…
- Delicious Links – 20 links – blogging, programming, ruby, photography, copyright
- blogging, copyright, lifehacks, photography, productivity, programming, ruby, rubyonrails
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