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(Anti) Social-Lists – 7/27/08

Here is the weekly installment of my favorite reads of the week.

  • mygazines – read full magazines for free online. found via ghacks
  • Life Laundry Day – Zen Habits discusses how taking stock of your financial, career and personal affairs is a great way to stay organized and remove mental clutter.
  • Ready to Surrender My Gun – After reviewing E3 coverage, Brainy Gamer discusses why he is getting really tired of the shooter genre. I couldn’t agree more.
  • In Defense of Ass Kicking – Chris Guillebeau discusses how we frequently learn more through failure than success. I’m starting to wonder if this list is going to include an article by Chris every week.
  • How to Be a Great Mom – a guest post on Zen Habits by Vered of MomGrind that reminds mothers that taking time for themselves will make them better at parenting.
  • Coffee Makes You Gullible – Jonathan Fields takes a look at a study that states that coffee drinkers may be more susceptible to persuasion. Hmmm … I’m addicted to coffee and am not very agreeable.
  • How to Play Playstation Games on Your PC – makeuseof.com provides detailed step by step instructions on how to play PS1 games on your PC. Make sure you actually own a PS1 before setting this up.

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Fav Thumbs – Visualize Your Delicious Bookmarks

Note: This no longer works with delicious bookmarks. It seems that that the tool is now being used by ebay.

Fav Thumbs, created by one of the developers of Swurl, Ryan Sit, provides a graphical representation of your del.icio.us bookmarks. The idea behind this is that for many of us a picture jogs our memory more than a line of text does. It is also really pretty.

Today, logging in took quite some time. I’m not sure if it’s a the service or if it is because I have so many bookmarks. I don’t remember, however, the login taking so long the first time I looked at this site.

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(Anti) Social-Lists 7/20/08

Here is the weekly installment of my favorite reads/finds of the week.

  • There Was a Class War and the Rich Won It – Ian Welsh of Firedoglake discusses how worker’s wages have stagnated over the last 30 years while productivity has gone up. Basically, we are learning less and working harder to make someone else wealthy.
  • Slogan Train Wrecks – Taste My Nuts – Jonathan Fields encounters a nut stand with a funny slogan but one that is not really going to help sell nuts. An example of bad branding.
  • The Twelve People You Meet on Twitter – Funny because it is true. I definitely started out as The Ghost but now I hope that I am a mix of most of the other types. Which type are you? If you see yourself in one of those types and don’t want to be seen that way, do you plan on making a change?
  • Ever Feel Like Giving Up – all the time Chris, all the time. Chris Guillebeau discusses how traveling can frequently be lonely and confusing. The article easily translates to your own life experience.
  • 11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life – Steve Olson lists ways to create an existence worth living such as being true to yourself and staying out of debt. I hope people read and practice this when young because I spent much of my life learning these lessons the hard way.
  • Bike, Meet the City. City, This is the Bike – A vision of bicycle-centric rather then car-centric city from World Changing. I frequently imagine how enjoyable the city would be if all the cars were suddenly gone.
  • How to Host Your Own Lifestream with Sweetcron – Sarah Perez, of ReadWriteWeb, previews Sweetcron, which will be a self hosted lifestream that stores online activity in a database and will be fully searchable. This may be exactly what I’m looking for in a personal lifestream.
  • Mount A Camera to Your Bicycle – I’m don’t have the talent for a lot of DIY projects but if I had an extra camera, I would definitely do this. Be sure to watch the video of the camera in action.
  • Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog – a short online musical brought to you by Joss Whedon and starring Neil Patrick Harris. Don’t think I need to say any more – go watch it!

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(Anti) Social-Lists 7/13/08

Here is a list of my favorite online reads/finds of the week. Not every article was posted this week but I read it this week. Sample Blogging Workflow – A discussion of the goals, tools and tasks needed to write successfully for your blog. Parts that I found especially useful were using an editorial calendar and commenting on other blogs. I also enjoyed the Picnik plug – I love that online image editor.

  • Patriotism 2.0 – Chris Guillebeau’s perspective on the United State’s 4th of July holiday. Chris travels around the world and is usually not in the country for the holiday, which brings a unique view to America’s flag waving style of patriotism.
  • Social Media and the Crisis in Zimbabwe – David Wescott’s post about the best coverage of the crisis in Zimbabwe currently coming from within the country.
  • Get Your Life Back On Track – Five Slightly Controversial Ways To Enjoy More Free Time – Do you find yourself saying that you don’t have enough time to try something new or simply relax? Here a few suggestions on ways that you can free up some time.
  • Why I Love Empty Job Freelancing – Jody E. works a mindless full time job that gives her the time for her freelancing. She lists the benefits of this and the “golden rules”.
  • Top 20 “That’s What She Said” Moments Found on Twitter – If you love The Office and Twitter, you will find this list very funny. I don’t even want to think about the amount of research it took Zach Hofer-Shall to create this.
  • Exclusive: First Look At Genome, A Next-Gen Social Networking Service – Sarah Perez previews Genome, a social networking service that included contacts, IM, and a portable online identity. I look forward to hearing more about this service.

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    Shared Netvibes Page as Lifestream

    Using Netvibes
    Netvibes has many different uses with the most common being a customized start page and as an RSS reader. I used Netvibes as both for quite some time. I started using it consistently in late 2005 when I started working for my previous employer because it wasn’t blocked by WebSense . Since Netvibes has tabs that can be used to organize information, my first tab was my start page and contained widgets for things like my local weather and my email. I then organized my favorite RSS feeds onto different tabs by topic; tech, linux, books, daily, etc. In the last 6 months, however, I stopped using Netvibes as a feed reader and am now completely using GReader. I don’t really use Netvibes as a start page anymore either – I open up GMail, GReader, Twitter and this website in tabs and am usually ready to get to work.

    Netvibes Start Page

    Why I Stopped Using It

    Now don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t mean that I don’t like Netvibes. I do like it, I like it very much. My work habits, however, have changed making it less useful to me. Since I open the sites I want to start the day with in Firefox tabs, I don’t need a startpage and since discovering GReader’s listview (for some reason I always had it on expanded view and didn’t think it was a useful feed reader) and it’s sharing feature, I have found it the most efficient and most social way to read my rss feeds. The most recent version of Netvibes also has a sharing feature but I have not warmed up to it – the shared items go into the “stream” but are not searchable or easy to scan through. And Netvibes is definitely not an efficient way for me to read my feeds anymore. You can only have a set number for each feed and if you get behind you will lose that information. For example, the Joystiq feed was limited to 40 items. It is not infrequent for Joystiq to have more than 40 posts in one day and if I didn’t get a chance to read the feed I wouldn’t see the articles. GReader on the other hand, stores all of the data – even the data for the feed items that you have already read. As a research and information tool this is indispensable.

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