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Shrook and an Automatic (OPML) Blogroll

I’ve discovered myself relying more and more upon “(extlink)Shrook”:http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/ (my MacOSX RSS Aggregator) to get my daily newsfix. In addition to the standard functionality of allowing me to subscribe to sites, and identifying new posts, Shrook also automatically syncs with “(extlink)Shrook.com”:http://www.shrook.com both keeping track of which stories I’ve read regardless of what computer I’m on ...

New Google Look

New Google Look
Google Testing New Look (Google Weblog) – Christopher Clay reports that Google is testing out a new look. Only a small portion of Google users will see it now, but presumably they’ll roll it out for everyone if it tests well. I like it. [ “(extlink)Googleblog”:http://google.blogspace.com ] I like the new look as well. It ...

Fix MT Bookmarklet in Safari

Fixing the MT bookmarklet for Safari [ “(extlink)The Daily Journey”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/ ] Change: t=d.selection?d.selection.createRange() .text:d.getSelection(); To: t=getSelection(); Much as I’d grown to love Kung-log, with the trackback integration and “(extlink)Omniweb”:http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ or “(extlink)Safari’s”:http://www.apple.com/safari built in spell checking, I’ve found that I actually use the bookmarklet much more when browsing and blogging. The only thing that would be ...

Did Blogs Amplify War-Propoganda

Did the weblog world do anything other than amplify the pre-war Bush propaganda campaign on Iraqi WMD?  Are we in the worst of all worlds when the mainstream media (our former gatekeepers) buys into a completely false propoganda campaign and that same propoganda is supported online by tens of thousands of mini-Limbaughs? [John Robb’s Weblog] Considering much of ...

Kantor on One-time Emails

One-Time-Use E-Mail Addresses – You sign up with a address company (e.g., “NoSpam.com”) that you give your real address to. When you need to provide a valid e-mail address on a site, you click a button and NoSpam would instantly generate an address — maybe “x43gti@akantor.nospam.com.” Ugly? Yeah. But who cares? You could specify how ...