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--><generator uri="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/16267314425471380645/state/com.google/broadcast</id><title type="text">Sixteen Small Stones - Recommended Links</title><gr:continuation>CM60nqCyrpQC</gr:continuation><author><name>J. Max Wilson</name></author><updated>2008-07-24T16:56:07Z</updated><subtitle type="html">Recommended links from J. Max Wilson</subtitle><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/sixteensmallstones_links" type="application/atom+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">658406</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">http://www.feedburner.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216918567960"><id gr:original-id="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com/?p=403">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c3ad98070161b86a</id><category term="Family-friendly Content" /><category term="Sharing the Gospel" /><category term="Web Sites and Blogs" /><category term="animations" /><category term="kids" /><category term="old testament" /><category term="video" /><title type="html">Animations from the Old Testament, By Kids for Kids</title><published>2008-07-24T15:43:13Z</published><updated>2008-07-24T15:43:13Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LDSWebGuy/~3/344718378/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com/" type="html">A group of members from a Sunday School class in Connecticut have created several video animations of Old Testament stories. The videos include young people telling their versions of Old Testament Stories along with animations. These are very clever, and some are hilarious.  

They invited the...</content><author><name>Larry Richman</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/LDSWebGuy"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/LDSWebGuy</id><title type="html">LDS Media Talk</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216913263581"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20420">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/699bfb121838436a</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="Opposing Views" /><title type="html">Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where Experts Go Head-To-Head</title><published>2008-07-24T07:01:46Z</published><updated>2008-07-24T07:01:46Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/24/opposing-views-launches-as-a-debate-site-where-experts-go-head-to-head/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now. 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Russell Fine is trying to do that with...</content><author><name>Erick Schonfeld</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216829744712"><id gr:original-id="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=20352">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5d52e62a297881e9</id><category term="Company &amp; Product Profiles" /><category term="v-enable" /><title type="html">Mobile Search Trends Show Economic Decline And Rise In Pizza</title><published>2008-07-23T15:00:54Z</published><updated>2008-07-23T15:00:54Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/343654009/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.techcrunch.com/" type="html">V-Enable, a voice-enabled mobile 411 system, conducted a study by taking a random sampling of 20,000 searches in major metropolitan areas from customers of several V-Enable partner carriers including Alltel and MetroPCS.  The findings clearly represent interesting trends caused by the recession. ...</content><author><name>Calley Nye</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch</id><title type="html">TechCrunch</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.techcrunch.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216654340688"><id gr:original-id="">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e73acaab2b5c0c4f</id><title type="html">Their Fair Share</title><published>2008-07-21T15:32:20Z</published><updated>2008-07-21T15:32:20Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121659695380368965.html?mod=djemEditorialPage" type="text/html" /><link rel="related" href="http://online.wsj.com/" title="online.wsj.com" /><content xml:base="http://online.wsj.com/" type="html">Washington is teeing up "the rich" for a big tax hike next year, as a way to make them "pay their fair share." Well, the latest IRS data have arrived on who paid what share of income taxes in 2006, and it's going to be hard for the rich to pay any more than they already do. The data show that the...</content><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link</id><title type="html">online.wsj.com</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://online.wsj.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216481184093"><id gr:original-id="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949808.post-432303163547699480">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/591cfa570c169499</id><title type="html">&amp;quot;The Market Is Open&amp;quot;</title><published>2008-07-19T05:21:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-19T06:00:54Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://rbfrog.blogspot.com/2008/07/market-is-open.html" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://rbfrog.blogspot.com/" type="html">Do you ever play Pit?  Then you've experienced this scenario: You go back and forth between a couple of different commodities until you make a lucky trade and one particular commodity gains prominence.  In this scenario, let's say your hand tips toward soybeans.  After fast and furious trading, you...</content><author><name>Robin</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://rbfrog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rbfrog.blogspot.com/atom.xml</id><title type="html">Abacus Sounding</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://rbfrog.blogspot.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216173633428"><id gr:original-id="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/asoftanswer/~3/336530946/">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f63f5df4017b1dc8</id><title type="html">A Soft Answer: A point that has been a long time coming</title><published>2008-07-15T23:18:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-15T23:18:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/asoftanswer/~3/336530946/" type="text/html" /><author><name>David H. Sundwall</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.nothingwavering.org/lds-blogs"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.nothingwavering.org/lds-blogs</id><title type="html">NothingWavering.org - LDS Blogs</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.NothingWavering.org" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Geoff B. makes a point that has been a long time coming.

There is an incredible amount of hypocrisy in the old “the blogger is claiming I’m not righteous” complaint that we see all over the Bloggernacle these days. I have seen literally hundreds of posts and comments in the last five years...</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216166101142"><id gr:original-id="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0715kd.html">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0e7ddfde1eefb94a</id><title type="html">Schools Down Under</title><published>2008-07-15T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-15T00:00:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0715kd.html" type="text/html" /><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://www.city-journal.org/cjeon.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://www.city-journal.org/cjeon.xml</id><title type="html">City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.city-journal.org" type="text/html" /></source><content type="html">Australian education-policy questions should sound familiar to Americans.</content></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1216092771150"><id gr:original-id="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10861780.post-57422283881361375">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/347eaef22361b372</id><title type="html">&amp;quot;In their own words&amp;quot;: political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology</title><published>2008-07-14T23:32:00Z</published><updated>2008-07-14T23:34:28Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/335547922/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/" type="html">Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product Managers

In this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms?

Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier for people to track...</content><author><name>A Googler</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml</id><title type="html">The Official Google Blog</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1215815829543"><id gr:original-id="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com/?p=382">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/82cc36748e3314a5</id><category term="Sharing the Gospel" /><category term="Web Sites and Blogs" /><category term="encyclopedia of mormonism" /><title type="html">Encyclopedia of Mormonism Online in Searchable Text</title><published>2008-07-11T18:10:27Z</published><updated>2008-07-11T18:10:27Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LDSWebGuy/~3/332889995/" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com/" type="html">In September 2007, we announced that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism was available online at BYU.edu in PDF format. We’re now happy to announce that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism is available in text format that is fully searchable. Each entry also has a link back to a PDF scan of the page from the...</content><author><name>Larry Richman</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/LDSWebGuy"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/LDSWebGuy</id><title type="html">LDS Media Talk</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.ldsmediatalk.com" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1215727392138"><id gr:original-id="">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/83bca6d8bca54aa6</id><title type="html">The Phantom Gay Past</title><published>2008-07-10T22:03:12Z</published><updated>2008-07-10T22:03:12Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.gaysdefendmarriage.com/phantom-past/" type="text/html" /><link rel="related" href="http://www.gaysdefendmarriage.com/" title="www.gaysdefendmarriage.com" /><content xml:base="http://www.gaysdefendmarriage.com/" type="html">Perhaps a good analogy is to computers: being gay or straight is the software and even the operating system of many people’s lives in today’s highly sexualized culture, but it’s not in anybody’s hardware.... Clearly, all the research taken as a whole suggests that being gay or straight arises out...</content><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link</id><title type="html">www.gaysdefendmarriage.com</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.gaysdefendmarriage.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1215725346546"><id gr:original-id="http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/would_obama_tax_my_profits_if_i.html">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/19a1550d089ece3d</id><title type="html">Would Obama tax my profits if I sell my home? Would he tax my IRA? 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That is what Shopflick is trying to become, but with an edgier feel targeted at younger Internet shoppers.  The LA-based startup has raised $7 million in a series A financing, led by Panorama Capital and Venrock.  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At Google, our mission is organizing all of the world's information. We use literally thousands of different data formats to represent networked messages between servers, index records in repositories, geospatial datasets, and more. Most of these formats...</content><author><name>Leslie Hawthorn</name></author><source gr:stream-id="feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleOpenSourceBlog"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleOpenSourceBlog</id><title type="html">Google Open Source Blog</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1215468746274"><id gr:original-id="">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f07b6a1384b04ad8</id><title type="html">The Credit Crisis Is Going to Get Worse</title><published>2008-07-07T22:12:26Z</published><updated>2008-07-07T22:12:26Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121521029377229405.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop" type="text/html" /><link rel="related" href="http://online.wsj.com/" title="online.wsj.com" /><content xml:base="http://online.wsj.com/" type="html">"We are in a credit crisis the likes of which I've never seen in my lifetime," Mr. Forstmann warns. He adds: "The credit problems in this country are considerably worse than people have said or know. I didn't even know subprime mortgages existed and I was worried about the credit crisis."</content><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link</id><title type="html">online.wsj.com</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://online.wsj.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1215468236600"><id gr:original-id="">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d5488aa3790d176b</id><title type="html">The true test of Obama&amp;#39;s Iraq shift</title><published>2008-07-07T22:03:56Z</published><updated>2008-07-07T22:03:56Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/The_true_test_of_Obamas_Iraq_shift.html#" type="text/html" /><link rel="related" href="http://www.politico.com/" title="www.politico.com" /><content xml:base="http://www.politico.com/" type="html">“If current trends continue and we’re in a position where we continue to see reductions in violence and stabilizations and continue to see some improvements on the part of the Iraqi army and Iraqi police, then you know my hope would be that we could draw down in a deliberate fashion in consultation...</content><author gr:unknown-author="true"><name>(author unknown)</name></author><source gr:stream-id="user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link"><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/16267314425471380645/source/com.google/link</id><title type="html">www.politico.com</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.politico.com/" type="text/html" /></source></entry></feed>
