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Mea Culpa

July 13th

In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.” Mea – me, and culpa – culpable. In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. You can probably guess the reason why.

Scribkin is Now a Book!

July 9th

I found a great little service called Feedbooks. I have them convert my site feed into a PDF and e-book free of charge!

Su Reviews Idee’s TinEye

July 9th

If you assume that the Tin Man has eidetic memory and a talent for finding pictures that look like each other, you’d be getting close to what TinEye does.

New Flickr Features?

July 7th

Did Flickr just add a few new features?

Toluu Refines UI; Adds Features

June 30th

Last week, Toluu rolled out some big features. Today, we are seeing a couple of more subtle but no less welcome improvements to our favorite feed subscription-matching service.

Instant Social Media – Just Add People

June 26th

You may ask yourself, this sounds like a grind, what’s the point? Why should I keep doing this on one service after another? And the answer is: There is no good reason to do it.

ReadBurner Feeds the NewsGator

June 24th

ReadBurner unveils support for sharing articles with the NewsGator family of products, and super-fancy site enhancements!

RSSmeme Learns to Speak Social Bookmarking

June 23rd

Utilizing the friendfeed API and his brand of Django programming wizardry, Benjamin Golub has taught his shared-story app to leverage even more services to get a better buzz count on current articles. Essentially, RSSmeme will now look at all the social bookmarking services that friendfeed supports and allow those shares to contribute to an article’s popularity!

Last.fm Has an Annoying Fault

June 22nd

I have fun with the last.fm radio station widget.

Trackback This

June 18th

Good Morning scribkin readership!
If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you.  I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use.
Next time you post, please include a link to this article (no need to [...]

Quick News from Around the Net

June 17th

News on Swurl, Feedly, Disqus trackbacks, Louis Gray and Firefox 3

Maybe I Will Stick With My Day Job

June 16th

I have to admit that this past week, with its focus on the seedy underbelly of the shiny blog beast, has rather tempered my enthusiasm to dive into the blogging business full-time.

My ISP is a DNS Sellout!

June 13th

This has been brought up in the past, but recently I’ve noticed that my Internet Service Provider, Road Runner from Time Warner Cable, has decided that when I typo on the location bar, it’s perfectly acceptable to send me to a not-so-helpful search result page.

RSSmeme Leverages the FriendFeed API

June 13th

I just caught a post by Benjamin Golub, the developer of RSSmeme, in which he reveals some upcoming changes to his popular service:
RSSmeme is about to be faster than ever at finding the hot news of the day. Everyone knows that FriendFeed is fast; and I’m not talking about the speed at which the site [...]

YackTrack FeedFlare

June 6th

Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with the goal of creating my first FeedBurner FeedFlare. I wasn’t sure just how hard it would be, so I was ready for a grind. As it turns out, creating a working FeedFlare was not that difficult.

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