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I subscribe to hundreds of feeds, and read about a thousand items every day. I clip and share the most interesting ones here. Allow me to be your filter - I read so you don't have to.

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November 20 2008

06:31

Rick Turoczy shared an item on Google Reader

How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a

3 hours ago - Comment - Like

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Great tips from Josh Bancroft (especially considering they caused me to link to and talk about his stuff). - Rick Turoczy

Whoa. That stuff DOES work! ;-) - Josh Bancroft

05:01

James Kendrick posted an entry on jkOnTheRun

jkOnTheRun review- Blackberry Storm, yes it can cut and paste

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01:00

l0ckergn0me posted a message

“http://letmegooglethatforyou.c... - try it, then remember it next time someone asks a question that Google could find an answer for.”

2 hours ago - Comment - Like

Eric Geller, Nate Pilling, Josh Bancroft and 2 other people liked this

There's also http://www.justfuckinggoogleit... - Darren VanBuren

November 19 2008

21:52

Good Idea!: Man Submits Drawing Of Spider Instead Of Payment For Overdue Account - Geekologie

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17:43

How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk

Josh Bancroft's TinyScreenfuls.com

I’m writing this up to help bloggers and other people who create stuff online (videos, etc.) get their “stuff” more visibility, by getting more sites to link to it and talk about it. Specifically, I’m trying to help people in my group at work, Intel Software Network, by sharing some of my experience and ideas, since I’ve been blogging for over 5 years. I’m by no means an expert, just sharing...

13:54

Six Apart Gives Journalists Free Blogs

ReadWriteWeb

San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their jobs as well as those who fear the axe is coming. Cleverly dubbed the "Journalist Bailout Program," the service includes one free blog, a place in the Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion ...

12:01

Dave Winer posted a link

A Sea of Unwanted Imports - NYTimes.com

7 hours ago - Comment - Like

Mike Reynolds, J.D. Deutschendorf, Andrew Leyden and 20 other people liked this

"Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier. Ordinarily the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times." - Dave Winer

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Everything costs money to build, I'm not arguing that. I fail to see why the American taxpayer should pay to bail out a bunch of corporations who are obviously not doing a good job innovating. Rewarding bad behavior only encourages more bad behavior. - Bjorn Stromberg

Of course. bjorn. If The big Three built small, fuel efficent cars with some nice sleek designs, we wouldn't be in this position in the first place becase our reliance on foreign oil wouldnt be as high, and people would be buying american instead of japanse and korean. On the otherhand The Big Three do employ a boatload of people that we'd rather have stay in work. Then again, Chapter 11 does have credible reasons for its use as a force for change as opposed to a bailout. - Roberto Bonini

November 18 2008

23:46

Vocito (Voe-kee-toe)*

Google Mac Blog

By Dave MacLachlan, Google Mac Team

For those of you who are lucky enough to be be part of the GrandCentral Beta Program, there's a new toy on the Google Mac Playground. Vocito* is a quick dialer that lets you dial your phone directly from your desktop.

Vocito is also integrated into Address Book, QuickSilver, and Automator, and is fully AppleScriptable.

The AppleScript connection makes it easy...

13:43

Deconstructing Google Mobile's Voice Search on the iPhone

Waxy.org

I've experimented with audio transcription lately, but always with big, clumsy humans. I'd happily use ~~cyborgs~~ speech recognition software, but even today, automatic conversion of voice-to-text is still flawed. Naturally, I was intrigued when Google announced they were adding voice searching to their Google Mobile iPhone app.

Google's flirted with voice-to-text conversion in the past, with

02:50

★ iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results

Daring Fireball

On the desktop version of Safari, when you use the built-in Google search field, you get pretty much the same results page as when you go to google.com and enter your query the old-fashioned way. The toolbar search field is just a more convenient way to get the same results.

But that’s not the case on the iPhone. On the iPhone, when you use the toolbar search field (the one you get by tapping...

01:48

Just say it! Searching by voice with the new Google Mobile App for iPhone

Google Mac Blog

Posted by Bill Byrne, Mobile UI Witch, Google

Call me lazy, but sometimes I just don't have the time or the patience to type a search query on my iPhone. Well, no more excuses. With the new release of the Google Mobile App for iPhone, I can just hold the phone to my ear, wait for the tone and say stuff like "Indian restaurants." And just like that, I'm looking at a bunch of places that will...

November 17 2008

04:48

Ignite Portland 4 - Sponsor Videos

Legion of Tech

Not only did the sponsors of Ignite Portland 4 help make the event possible, they also participated in proceedings by creating these amazing videos to tell the audience about themselves. Thank you all!