Sounds like Greg Reinacker is brewing up a posting interface for NewsGator via Simon Fell’s IBlogThis interface.

Cool!

I was doing some research about donating a car to charity and I found a good checklist on the NY Better Business Bureau site

“If considering a donation of a vehicle to a charity, follow this checklist:
• Check out the charity. Make sure you are comfortable with its mission, activities and ethics. NYPAS maintains reports on many New York area charities and the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ PAS program has information on national organizations from around the country.
• Inquire what specifically the vehicle will be used for.
• If the vehicle is to be sold, ask the actual dollar amount the charity will receive for your donation. Shop around- some charities receive more for each car donated than others.
• Determine the true value of your donation, by finding out the “blue book” value and/or getting it appraised by an auto professional. Remember to take any damage into account.
• Keep copies of all documentation pertaining to your donation for tax purposes.”

“In the field of customer intelligence, search analytics is poised to become a star. However, some say it remains somewhat limited, much like enterprise search itself” (via CNet)

According to researchers at the University of Washington which was referenced in this NY Times article

“…companies would benefit from encouraging richer social connections,”

The Times article also mentions …

“Google may be great, but people are greater. Paraphrased roughly, that is what researchers at the University of Washington found in a study released last week. People are more likely to seek information from other people than to search the Internet or an intranet, and they are three times more likely to go to people they know than to outside experts…”

Ben Schorr has put together a useful OneNote FAQ

This is pretty neat, as part of the Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack, there’s a blogging plugin for Windows Media Player that will insert the info about the current track playing into you blog post (see below)

Esther Dyson now has a blog and
an RSS feed
thanks to Sam Ruby (of course)

the World as a Blog — “Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world”

Very clever!

Ross Rader calls it, “Googlediving” and he provides a simple HOWTO. (link via Doc)

However, it could probably be automated by paging backward through a search result-set via the Googe API.

What’s next? Cop cars that run on powdered sugar?

From an
article in the NY Times: “He will then start the vehicle on regular
diesel, and after a few minutes, when the vegetable oil becomes more viscous
in the heater, a manual switch will direct it to the diesel engine. From
there, the only detectable difference will be the faint odor of French
fries, and a noticeable lack of diesel stench.” (Thanks for the link John)