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R.I.P. Google Reader
Powering Down Google Reader: Well, this is unfortunate: Google is killing Reader. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience. I can think of [...]
The “Next” Bookmark in Google Reader
I’ve recently switched to Google Reader from Bloglines. There’s a lot of nice functionality, but here’s something I think is really neat: the “Next” bookmark. This is a bookmark I have in my sidebar. When I click it, I get the permalink of the next item in my feeds. So, if I click it now, [...]
Drinking From a Fire Hose
Are there RSS feeds you can’t keep up with? I have a few that I just can’t stay on top of due to posting volume. A friend of mine called it “drinking from a fire hose.” They are: DZone (yes, I know I love it, but I just can’t keep up) Slashdot Lifehacker (yes, I’ve [...]
Time Management for Geeks
Fraser Speirs on “Time Management for System Administrators”: You know time management is in short supply when O’Reilly is writing books about it. Thomas A. Limoncelli’s book Time Management for System Administrators is perhaps the first example I’ve seen of a book which advocates a GTD-style workflow with some modifications specific to the system administration [...]
dzone
dzone.com – fresh links for developers: I do not add RSS feeds easily to my aggregator. The last one I added was Solution Watch, several months ago. I added dzone again last week. This is like Digg, but just for developers. Now, I know, Digg-ish sites are a dime a dozen these days. But… All [...]
Greasemonkey Script Library
Userscripts.org – Universal Repository: Here’s a site full of Greasemonkey scripts for about everything you could ever imagine. I like this one, that automatically switches all Amazon affiliate links in the page you’re viewing to your own affiliate ID. Sneaky. This one for Blogines continually checks your feeds in the background via the API, and [...]
Solution Watch
Solution Watch: This is just a great blog. It’s full of in-depth reviews of really cool new Web tools and services. Solution Watch surveys the bleeding-edge of the productivity world, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best services all day and every day. The posting volume is low — perhaps three or four a [...]
The Lost Screencap Analysis
About four months ago, I asked you all to send me a screencap of the Gadgetopia home page sitting in your browser window. I promised to do some analysis of the results, and I kept meaning to get to it, but never got to it. Tonight, I finally sat down and analyzed what people had [...]
Post #5,000
Uh, well, here we are, I guess. Five thousand posts. Huh. This has been my goal since that first post 1,291 days ago. I posted about The Gutenberg Project back then, back when the site was deanebarker.net. Since then, we’ve managed to post just under four items a day, every single day. I hope that [...]
What Free Services Would You Pay For?
There are a lot of free services on the Web — we all use one. But which ones would you pay for? Of the free services you use, let’s say they all decided to charge $30 per year. Which ones would you go without and which would you shell out the money for? (Note that [...]