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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.

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

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.

Did Flickr just add a few new features?

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.

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

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!

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

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 [...]

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

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.