• Ruminations » Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
  Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet (PDF)
  (tags: testing heuristics QA TDD development)
• SEOmoz | 24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers
  General SEO Tips
  (tags: SEO Search marketing webdesign)
• The digital darkroom revealed « Jon Udell
  the audio editing techniques used by the NPR pros make conversations sound clear and intelligible.
  (tags: Podcast Audio)
• Camera Stabilizing Bag Stabilizes, Transports
  “Yank out the camera, fill up the bag with rocks/sand/etc to keep it weighed down and plop the camera on it.”
  (tags: photography accessories)
• SaaS 2.0 is About Business, not Technology
  In sum, SaaS 2.0 goes well beyond today’s SaaS business drivers, which have focused on cost-effective software delivery. Instead SaaS 2.0 is about helping users transform their business workflow and processes, and the way they do business.
  (tags: SaaS ondemand Enterprise2.0 architecture statistics Research Technology)

• xFruits - Compose your information system
  Mashup RSS feeds
  (tags: RSS mashup feeds aggregator Blogs OPML Mobile XML)
• socialmeter
  Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage’s social popularity. Currently we scan Bloglines, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google, Rojo, Shadows,Technorati and Yahoo My Web.
  (tags: Search SEO socialsoftware blog bookmarks statistics)
• » Sorry, Bit Torrent-these legit content deals of yours are like farts in a blizzard | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com
  “The new site represents a big gamble that BitTorrent’s core users — males between 16 and 34 — will accept the restrictions of a legal marketplace,” Elise writes. “While BitTorrent boasts that 135 million people have installed its file-sharing softwar
  (tags: BitTorrent media Business Movies Software Games Music ondemand)
• InfoQ: Struts 2 Goes GA
  “The Apache Struts Team has announced that version 2.0.6 will be released as General Availability (GA). This is an important milestone since GA is the project’s highest quality grade. This also marks the first GA release with the integrated WebWork 2 code
  (tags: Java framework struts opensource Software development)
• Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator Video
  It’s a beer launching mini-fridge so you don’t have to get up off the couch!
  (tags: Beer geek Humor Video robots Technology)
• Can Google crack $74 billion TV ad market? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com
  Google is ramping up its television advertising efforts and recruiting sales staff for “Google Television.
  (tags: Google Advertising Business tv media)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: SaaS adoption set to explode
  “61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan to adopt one or more SaaS applications over the next year, a dramatic increase from the 38% who were planning to install SaaS apps in 2005″
  (tags: ondemand SaaS enterprise software research statistics architecture trends)
• Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
  3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
  (tags: web3.0 Commerce community Search Business trends media)

• Research report: YouTube.com users prefer homemade videos
  “Hitwise further claimed that during the week of February third, online traffic to YouTube was greater than that to all television network websites combined!”
  (tags: media TV Video youtube Google statistics Report)

• Strobist: Round Up: The “Starving Student” Off-Camera Light Kit
  “The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck - with a nod toward extreme portability.”
  (tags: Camera DIY Flash Hacks HOWTO lighting photo Photography recommendations)
• Google Apps APIs
  “Google Apps and its APIs open up a wide variety of new opportunities to integrate and extend Google’s communication and collaboration services. Domain adminstrators can use the APIs to migrate from and integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Applicati
  (tags: Google API sso webservices web2.0 development)

• Susan Mernit’s Blog: Hey, Hearst, remember Zinio and CueCat?
  “the care this branch of the Hearst team is taking to preserve a print experience is, well, irritating–and most likely based on a fairly narrow idea of what kinds of advertisers they can attract and what kinds of ads they’ll pay to place.”
  (tags: publishing Print Advertising Business media)
• Ning | Blog - What is a Platform?
  “a software program that makes services available to other software programs through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).”
  (tags: software platform blog Books API development)
• Preoccupations: Last.fm stats
  15 million unique users a month
  (tags: Attention Music socialsoftware)
• Getting Real (book)
  “Want to build a successful web app? Then it’s time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software.”
  (tags: Agile applications Books Business Enterprise2.0 development programming software web Collaboration)

• LinkedInABox: Unleash Your LinkedIn Profile
  “LinkedInABox is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.”
  (tags: blogging widgets API network b identity Linkedin)
• Netvibes introduces Universal Widget API
  “build your module once, deploy everywhere”
  (tags: API gadgets Widgets Service Web webservices)
• Joost fires up its engines with Viacom deal, Mac beta | Webware : Cool web apps for everyone
  “…just weeks after asking YouTube to pull any of its copyrighted content, media giant Viacom has opted to license its content to Joost.” … and a new Mac beta too.
  (tags: P2P video tv media Business content)
• Streamburst Offers Innovative Non-DRM
  “The first is that every film begins with a 5 second display of the name of the person who purchased it appears on their credit card. The second step is that Streamburst strips out an undetectable but unique series of bits from each copy of a file downloa
  (tags: DRM video media Business)
• Nintendo Wii beats up on the competition in power savings - Engadget
  the 360 and PS3 in “idle” mode consume about ten times the watts of the Wii.
  (tags: Games energy conservation green)
• Podcasting News » Podtrac Announces First Online Media Planning Service for Podcasts and Serial Video Clips
  “Podtrac today announced the Podtrac Media Planner, a new online service designed to demystify advertising in podcasts and serial video clips by helping advertisers learn about audio and video podcasts, view demographics and reach, and sample more than 40
  (tags: Podcasting media Business statistics video)
• Bamboo - Continuous Integration and Build Server
  “Atlassian released Bamboo 1.0, our server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. By automating the software build process and providing instant notification of problems with the software’s cod
  (tags: development build integration programming server software svn tools testing QA)
• Mashery: Power Your API
  Mashery provides everything you need to get your API up and running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that it will scale. API security, usage/access management, tracking, metrics, commerce, performance and developer/community tools all come
  (tags: API Amazon Business community development Dev webservices web2.0 mashup programming s3)
• Fractals of Change: Television on The Internet – How much Bandwidth is Needed? Where?
  “If you switch to delivering the content over the internet, you no longer need to deliver all 200 channels all the time, but can simply deliver the content more “on demand.” That decreases the bandwidth needed towards the end of the network.”
  (tags: Bandwidth internet tv video media ondemand)
• Wheel of Food
  “Wheel of Food: The most fun way to pick a restaurant near you. Enter your zip, enter a cuisine, and let the Wheel of Food determine where to eat today.”
  (tags: API Food fun mashup NYC online Visualization Yahoo)
• Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority | Reuters
  “It is going to roll out very soon … It is not far away.”
  (tags: Google video youtube piracy copyright)

The act of maintaining ones weblog via proxy or more specifically, using an API feature from a remote service, such as the one from del.icio.us, to automatically post to your blog.

I’ve been using the daily blog posting feature of del.icio.us for a few years. It started out sparse, but admittedly the daily link dump has dominated my blogging activities (as you can see from the archives).

I’m sure my wife and friends can attest to how many times I’ve stated, “I need to blog more”, but the quick “select text”, right-click, “post to del.icio.us” is just too damn easy. Perhaps if I state my ambition more publicly it would inspire me to post more “manual”.

After maintaining this blog for over seven years I owe it to myself.

Nah… Lazy Blogging rules! I’ll do both.

• Adobe Tour Tracker - 2007 Amgen Tour of California
  Well done Flash/Flex-based UI for the Tour of California
  (tags: Cycling Maps GPS tourofcalifornia)
• XM, Sirius to merge - Feb. 19, 2007
  Rivals XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio announced Monday they would enter into a merger of equals, creating a satellite radio giant.
  (tags: Business radio Satellite Music merger)
• AOL and 63 Million OpenIDs | dev.aol.com
  AOL announced support for OpenID: “There are now 63 million AOL/AIM OpenIDs.”
  (tags: OpenID identity AOL privacy Security Service)

• InfoQ: Predictions: The Changing World of IT Work
  The IT Professional Outlook: Where Will We Go From Here?
  (tags: IT Career Business management)
• Google to Start Reporting Subscriber Numbers
  “Google announced today that it will begin reporting the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader’
  (tags: Google statistics syndication RSS)
• Podcasting News: Most Americans Think Citizen Media Is Vital To Future Of Journalism
  “A majority of Americans (55%) said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to a new We Media - Zogby Interactive poll.”
  (tags: media Journalism UGC Business)
• Sonny Rollins - Podcasts
  Awesome! “The Sonny Rollins Podcast, a new monthly video series, focuses on tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins and his music.”
  (tags: Podcast Video Jazz Music)

• jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
  Query is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.
  (tags: JavaScript AJAX Code Dev development library JSON)