// 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).

• [MUSIC] David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
  • The history and future of the recording industry
  • (music, distribution, wired)
  • (wired.com, 489 saves, 32 inbound links, 17 diggs)
• [GMAIL] Creating a Backup for Your Google Account
  • How to create a second gmail account with full access to all your Google services
  • (google, backup, gmail, howto)
  • (googlesystem.blogspot.com, 298 saves, 8 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [GMAIL] WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged
  • Hacker found a backdoor and used it to take over David Airey’s website.
  • (security, google, gmail, hack, email)
  • (davidairey.co.uk, 120 saves, 9 inbound links, 3917 diggs)
• [BUSINESS] Joel Spolsky’s Travel Survival Guide – Business Travel – Software Demo’ing
  • How to give good demo
  • (travel, tips, presentation)
  • (inc.com, 116 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [SPAM] Blacklists Don’t Work
  • It’s guerrilla warfare and the spammers have more troops
  • (security, windows, antivirus, virus, blacklist)
  • (codinghorror.com, 39 saves, 92 diggs)
• [CODE] 8-year-olds should test my code
  • (programming, testing, debugging)
  • (cs.nyu.edu, 31 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [MEME] Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure
  • Possibly the best headline of 2007
  • (chucknorris, humor)
  • (news.yahoo.com, 25 saves, 2179 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] 51 Favorite StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Twitter & Facebook Posts of 2007
  • Top posts of 2007 on social media
  • (seo, marketing, sphinn, facebook, twitter, socialmedia, stumbleupon)
  • (socialdesire.com, 20 saves, 2 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Social Networks: Stop Designing Out The Fun
  • (socialnetworking, design, trends, web)
  • (mechanicalrobotfish.com, 19 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [LIBRARY] Threatened by the Internet? Music Biz Should Rock Like Librarians
  • So true, I use the library at least twice a month.
  • (books, internet, library)
  • (readwriteweb.com, 12 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [GAMERS] Portal… in lego
  • (lego, portal, valve)
  • (brickshelf.com, 8 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [GMAIL] Collective effort restores David Airey.com
  • More of David Airey’s loss of control over his domain name.
  • (domain, dns, gmail)
  • (davidairey.co.uk, 4 saves)
• [PIRACY] Disasters of Commerce: HDCP
  • The HD-DVD / Blu-ray copyright protection schemes can break your hardware permanently
  • (applications, security, hdcp, hdtv)
  • (fishsupreme.livejournal.com, 3 saves)
• [LEARNING] Get Educated.
  • links to several online learning resources
  • (learning)
  • (web1979.com, 2 saves, 2 inbound links)

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

• 7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Gaming — Playing The Witcher on Minimum System Requirements
  • One of the lures of the holiday season is to be able to hopefully squeeze in some time between eggnog, family and friends to exercise your vices. No, not heroin, but that other life consuming addiction: gaming. PC gaming is quickly going the way of the dodo, with console gaming taking over because…
• Windows XP – Disable dumpprep when programs crash
  • One tip for improve Windows XP that I absolutely love is turning off that annoying “do you want to send an error report” message when programs crash. The sad truth is that those error reports rarely reach anyone who could fix the problem, so it’s a colossal waste of time — especially…

Tags: gmail, google, security