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An application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on Mac OS X. With Feeder you don’t need to understand RSS to create feeds and publish them to the web.
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Feeder now works with podcasting feeds that use the iTunes RSS extensions.

(via Jots)

Blog link tracking has come along way since Technorati and Daypop where at the top of the list. New sites have come along and bloggers have never had it so good in terms of choice.

The Blog Herald provides an overview of 6 blog link tracking sites.

“Germany is still a developing country when it comes to blogs,” said Markus Beckedahl, who blogs at netzpolitik.org. “The awareness of blogs as a means of political communication needs to be raised in Germany.”

You said it, Markus.

“Maybe one day the realization will come through that the Internet can lead to a new form of communication between politicians and voters,” Politik Digital’s Dowe said. “That is a long way off in Germany…

No kidding! Maybe one day…

(via Schockwellenreiter)

“At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: ‘Just tell me it’s not Google,'’ Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. ‘At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office,’ Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. ‘I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.’

Terrific!

Go, Google, Go!

Go, Slashdot! LOL!

As the guy who coined the term ‘weblog’, I wanna propose that this
Flash app makes mp3-blogging practical for the first time. The basic
features are identical to the archetypal weblog: you link your good
finds in reverse order, and people who like your taste check in
regularly to hear what you’ve found, checking them in order, skipping
ones they already know, and when they hear something they want to
investigate further, jumping to this page for a link.

Must look into this.

An open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.

Caveat:

Seashore is still undergoing development and may contain bugs so please make sure only to work on copies of important images…

Still, good value!

(via digg/apple)

Said blobby things then appear to exist within the dimensions of the room.

Not sure what the implications or application might be, but it sure is impressive!

(via digg/software)

… when we put all the numbers together, we can estimate that there are a minimum of 30 billion Windows system crashes a year.

(via digg/links)

An on-demand publishing tool for books, e-books, music, images, movies and calendars.
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There is no set-up fee and no minimum order to publish and sell on Lulu.

Not an entirely new idea, but one I think is bound to be replicated in various forms by many others, soon.

(via Jots)

As the blogosphere becomes more flat, the so-called “A-list” won’t matter anymore. There will be A-lists in virtually every sector. The geeks will continue to read Scoble and Winer in droves, but other kings will be crowned in domains like autos, movies, baseball, etc.

…the latest Zotob attacks prove, the time to exploit an unpatched flaw has narrowed significantly since the launch of Windows 95 10 years ago.

(via MacSurfer)

Apple has beaten its PC rivals by a country mile in the latest PC Magazine awards. And the voters were the paying public, not the (non-paying) editors.

The Reader’s Choice awards saw Apple poll “far and away the highest for all vendors,” the magazine says. Apple received a score of 9.2 for its desktops and notebooks. Among portables, only IBM and Fujitsu were anywhere near Apple, both with a score of 8.4.

MacWorld UK adds

The report observes that Mac users are martial in favour of their platform, but nevertheless states: “There’s solid evidence that Macs may be worthy of devotion.”

No kidding. The proof is in the pudding!

(via MacSurfer)

Jon Udell’s podcasts are finally available for subscription in iTunes.

A definite must!

…both old and new. Old in its mission to help people who make websites see farther and jump higher. New in its design, structure, publishing system, and brand extensions.

(via kottke.org)