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Pacing Your Feeds

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted some good advice about how to keep up with all of the RSS feeds in your reader. Boiled down to the essence:
1) You need an efficient reading mechanism (I use and recommend Google Reader.)
2) You need to keep your feeds organized so they make sense to you
3) You need to keep [...]

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Tags: Feeds · How-To

Secure your Google Toolbar’s Gmail button

August 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Defcon 2007 was a great demonstration that HTTPS logins give everybody a false sense of security. The hacker convention revealed that dozens of people unknowingly gave up their GMail account info through a cookie exploit. Many people also used Gmail in the clear (HTTP) rather than encrypted (HTTPS). The resulting privacy breaches [...]

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Digg Begging: Tacky or Savvy?

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Getting on Digg is really quite easy for the common blogger. Here’s how in one easy step:

Get a job writing for Engadget, Gizmodo, Arstechnica, Mashable, or TechCrunch.

What, did that sound cynical? Check the latest top stories on Digg and where they came from. That’s where you need to be to easily [...]

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