Abundant Earth Environmental SuperStore Marshall Kirkpatrick » 10 ways to make remembering to read your After building a rockin’ good OPML file for a client last month a classic problem has come up that I want to write about here: how do you stay motivated to read your feeds regularly? I subscribe to far more feeds than most people (3,000+) and am able to stay on top of them well enough. Here are some ways I do it, as well as some thoughts from some friends. Some of these are pretty standard but I hope that at least some are new to you. Please leave a comment if you can suggest other methods – I’d really like to be able to articulate ways we can prevent the all-too-common “info overload” backlash that’s leading many people to lose out on a lot of the potential offered by new web tools. Organize by priority I have two folders in my feedreader, one for high priority feeds that I try to scan at least once a day and one bulk folder for feeds that I get to when and if I can. Use a river of news Scan for things to read RSS is not email. Use other methods for “can’t miss news” Fear falling behind
Marshall Kirkpatrick » A post about some of my favorite tools: G My friend Justin Kistner has started a blog carnival of sorts that he’s calling Advanced Operators, all about working with new tools online. He’s had smart people contribute posts on all kinds of topics on their blogs and I thought I’d participate in this round. The topic this week is “my favorite tools.” Gmail RSS Did you know that you can get the contents of your Gmail inbox or just items with a particular filter or tag delivered via RSS? Just add a URL like this to your feed reader: where the word label is replaced with your label in GMail. Why would you want to do this? The other circomstance in which I’ve done this is to create a special section of my startpage to remind me of certain emails. FeedYes Speaking of feed creation, if you’ve got a webpage you want a feed from FeedYes is a great way to scrape one. What FeedYes does is ask you to provide a webpage’s URL, then it lists all the links on that page. FeedDigest
Findory Findory was a personalized news site. The site launched in January 2004 and shut down November 2007. A reader first coming to Findory would see a normal front page of news, the popular and important news stories of the day. Below is a screenshot of an example personalized Findory home page. [Clicking on the screenshot will bring up a full-sized version] Findory's personalization used a type of hybrid collaborative filtering algorithm that recommended articles based on a combination of similarity of content and articles that tended to interested other Findory users with similar tastes. One way to think of this is that, when a person found and read an interesting article on Findory, that article would be shared with any other Findory readers who likely would be interested. Findory's primary product was in news, but the broader goal of Findory was to personalize information. Video, podcast, and feed recommendations worked much like the news recommendations.
Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace Where there's water, life is possible. True, it may be very difficult and very hard to live, depending, but anyone who's driven, hiked, or camped in the American South West will have noticed that cities and ranches crop up where there's surface water or where there's been a well dug. Within the state of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, there are deserts, mesas, mountains, and forests where normally people never or rarely visit; not-so-secret places where there's water, access to a road within a day's hike, and where a fairly rugged individual may hide while remaining basically healthy, marginally well fed, and reasonably sane. In this section I'll look at two such environments, neither of which I would recommend, but one of which I'd suggest is a reasonable way to live in basic health while either on the run, hiding out from the law, old girl friends, the draft for an illegal war, putative wives and such. Where exactly? How I Would Do It Some Other Areas
Nikon MicroscopyU: Small World Gallery - 1977 Contest Winners Small World Image Gallery The Nikon Small World Gallery gives you a glimpse into a remarkable world that most have never seen. It is a window into a universe that can only be seen through the lens of a microscope. 2013 Small World Competition Winners Images of specimens entered in the 2013 Small World contest included marine diatoms, Hippocampal neuron, dinosaur bones, retina cells, mineral thin sections, Annelid larva, desmids, nerve and muscle thin sections, and human brain tissue. View Gallery 2012 Small World Competition Winners Images of specimens entered in the 2012 Small World contest included zebrafish embryo, lynx spiderlings, bone cells, retina cells, mineral thin sections, flower pistil, desmids, diatoms, and vitamin C. View Gallery 2011 Small World Competition Winners Images of specimens entered into the 2011 Small World contest included insects, microchips, desmids, cultured cells, dinosaur bones, sand, graphite, and coral. View Gallery 2010 Small World Competition Winners
Secret Worlds: Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Once the tutorial has completely downloaded, a set of the arrows will appear that allow the user to increase or decrease the view magnitude in Manual mode. Click on the Auto button to return to the Automatic mode. Notice how each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it. Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters) Contributing Authors David A. Questions or comments?
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news - HealthWorld Online NewsTarget/Truth Publishing, Sept 5, 2007 Straight to the Source The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. American products poisoning American children American products, you see, are often given blanket immunity by the U.S. press. Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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