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Kindling

Kindle It lets you send articles you find on the web to your Kindle or other e-reader for easy reading. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote independent, non-corporate media.

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Kindle It works by processing web pages in roughly the following way:

Article extraction using our Full-Text RSS tool

HTML cleanup

Conversion to Mobipocket (the Kindle format)

Email to user's Kindle address

via fivefilters.org

This is damn' handy if you have a kindle and you encounter a web page or blog article (pretty much anything really) which you would like to read, but it's too long, or you're too busy at work. You think I must remember to read this when I get home tonight and promptly forget about it, or where it was.

With this free browser add-on, you can - instead of forgetting - take instant action in your browser as soon as that 'I'd like to read this at home tonight' thought occurs to you. Just click on the kindle icon, or use one of those there deft keystrokes (here, it's Control-Shift-K) and a window pops up with the article in it (so you can have a quick look to see if what you want is all there - it usually is). If you've set up your kindle to allow emails from this service address ([email protected]) then just click the button and your kindle will pick it up for you the next time you refresh it.

The text is well laid out - not too surprising since you're generally starting from html and not pdf - and you'll probably find all of the relevant images (if - say - there were any photos in a blog article) have arrived too.

This is why they invented computers (and why you should maybe pay the guy the suggested five dollars).

#add-on #browsers #kindle #blogging #time-shifting #instant gratification

It's been only a week or so since they took it from version 3.1.3 to 3.1.4, so why the haste and why the step up in the minor version number from 1 to 2?

The differences they mention (just click on the url) include a new dashboard, with a clutter-free post-composing area, and this year's new default theme. That doesn't strike this author as a change major enough to warrant the 1 to 2, but maybe the other - infrastructural - changes they mention are the explanation. Weeding out the support for older versions of PHP and MySQL perhaps?

It's a relief to know that - even in the digital (or post digital) milieu - the principles of optics haven't changed. It's still the case that 1/do + 1/di = 1/f.

But the practice of recording them has. We also have holography. And now this light field imaging from Lytro. The 'shoot now, focus later' magic.

We don't like jumping to conclusions - it's the tagline of this here blogling, after all - so we'll assume that the folk at zoomzum really do mean 'meenu' and 'developmet' as slightly arch (or is it twee, or quaint, or whimsical) spellings on their site.

But - to the business of business cards. Always pretty easy to get designed and done, but these days it's madly so. And you don't have to pay a lot for small runs. Just a few quid (try Moo, for example, and do it all yourself - except the printing bit - online).

So how do you feel when given an undoubtedly gorgeous, eyecatching, memorable business card - but it's not rectangular? Does it matter to you that it won't fit with the others you've collected? Are non-electronic business cards still useful?

The DEA won't die

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Not one of the biggest stories, but perhaps one of the more important ones? The denial of the appeal against the Digital Economy Act. When a player as big as BT is chased out of court ...

It will cost you tens of thousands of dollars to 'own a word' on the intertubes. If you think you can make it back by selling land on it, have a go! Buy - say - 'instruments' and you could offer booseyandhawkes, dolmetsch, eavestaff, steinway, ... to the respective companies. And that's just musical instruments. But what if Steinway bought the word 'pianos'? Tricky chaps, words.

If you're not doing numbers then you're not doing science. But that doesn't necessarily mean that if you are doing numbers then you must be doing science. Statistics is very much 'doing numbers' but is it real science? Is it just observation sans explanation? Is its predictive power, if any, just an illusion or is it so useful that you don't need to give a toss?

Conducive Leads Weekly is out! http://bit.ly/mMroMJ ▸ Top stories today via @insight_uk @tynesidecinema @reuters_science

Here's an article (by Samir Balwani from Search Engine Watch) about how to configure google analytics to set yourself goals and sort out what's going on - with emphasis on the social traffic sources. There's more to google analytics than just plonking it in and hoping it'll tell you something useful out of the box.

#seo #analytics #configuration #social

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