// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).

• [IMAGES] VectorMagic | The Online Tool for Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion
  • Transform GIF/PNG/JPG to vector images that are suitable for resizing and printing big.
  • (vector, graphics, tools, converter)
  • (vectormagic.stanford.edu, 11455 saves, 100 inbound links, 2995 diggs)
• [DESIGN] How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
  • Minimalist vs grunge
  • (webdesign, inspiration, web2.0, howto)
  • (snap2objects.com, 506 saves, 25 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [TORRENTS] PickyPirate – A Metacritic-Bittorrent mashup
  • Interesting concept.
  • (bittorrent, torrent, p2p, mashup)
  • (pickypirate.com, 465 saves, 51 inbound links)
• [HUMOR] What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
  • Putting gmail through the Microsoft filter.
  • (microsoft, google, gmail, humor, design)
  • (blogoscoped.com, 351 saves, 100 inbound links, 156 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Cascades Project
  • University paper on blog ranking
  • (blogs, research, algorithms, blogging)
  • (blogcascades.org, 62 saves, 1 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] Haiku Blogging
  • Less is more. Use constraints to focus yourself on the blogging activities that will net your goals.
  • (blogging, writing)
  • (problogger.net, 33 saves, 18 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [BUSINESS] 7 Ways to Guarantee Customers Never Buy From You Again
  • How to piss off customers with by trying to sell to strongly
  • (customer, marketing, customers, business)
  • (instigatorblog.com, 24 saves, 2 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [RUBY] Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn’t)
  • Ruby was designed to make you happy.
  • (rubyonrails, ruby)
  • (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com, 21 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [GEEK] 10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now?
  • History lesson for geeks
  • (history, computers, internet, technology)
  • (pcworld.com, 9 saves, 3 inbound links, 547 diggs)
• [WORDPRESS] WordCamp Israel WordPress Tips Talk
  • Long list of tips for getting started with WordPress. Auntie Spam and Comment Ninja are mentioned.
  • (blogging, tips, wordpress)
  • (lorelle.wordpress.com, 7 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS.COM] Making money with Adsense – without annoying your users: WordPress.com
  • How ads work on WordPress.com
  • (blogs, wordpress.com, hosting)
  • (pascal.vanhecke.info, 4 saves, 6 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] comparison of coComment, co.comments and commentful
  • Which comment tracking service works best?
  • (blogging, comments)
  • (nbrightside.com, 2 saves)

Legend

• saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

This Week at Internet Duct Tape

• Getting Started With Ruby on Rails – Week 1
  • Rails is a framework for building web applications: stuff like blog software, instant messaging, to-do lists, web magazines, and your favorite web comic. Word on the street is that ROR is a resource hog but the resource consumption is balanced out by how much more productive it is to develop with.…
• Best of Feeds – 13 links – geek, marketing, blogging, software
  • tags: geek, marketing, blogging, software, joyent

Tags: blogging, blogs