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• Random Act of Kindness day is Saturday, Sept 1st
  (tags: rak)

• Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years « Scobleizer
  OK, I guess I better watch Scobles videos given the reaction he’s got.
  (tags: facebook google social web search)

The ski season finally kicked in the past weekend…two days of perfect weather and acceptable snow conditions, nice time. More snow’s coming too, so hopefully it’ll get even better, albeit late in the season.

Jennifer and Flynn drove down to the mountain on Thursday night and I followed Friday after work. With 4 hours driving by myself each way, and prompted by their sponsorship of Leo Laporte’s Twit network, I thought I would give Audible.com a crack and try an eBook for the journey.

Getting set up was a bit of a nightmare…partly because I was in a hurry Friday afternoon and didn’t bother with the instructions, so I struggled to configure the Audible software and special iPod download manager…I don’t know why I needed to download two pieces of software so maybe I am still doing something wrong. In any event, I managed to download Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (read by Gladwell himself).

Set up hassles aside I am totally sold on eBooks. Didn’t get through the whole thing over the weekend, but just finished it this morning which means I managed to knock it off in about 1/100th the time if I was just reading a few pages a night. Blink is a thoroughly good read listen too (implicit association testing is fascinating). Now I’m combing through the catalogue looking for everything else I’ve been meaning to read for ages.

Suggest you give it a try and if you go to www.audible.com/twit you get your first ebook free. Nice.

• BoardRideTv.com – Share your action sport videos!!
  (tags: boardriding)

• YouTube – Content-Aware Image Sizing [EN]
  holy crap that is some clever image manipulation
  (tags: images photography)
• Improve conversions & customer experience – LeftClick, New Zealand.
  I like the idea of a consultancy focussed on conversions
  (tags: business)

• Dodging Google sheriff
  The Age on SEO. It’s funny when MSM try to report on this stuff…Not a brilliant article, but it could be a lot worse.
  (tags: seo msm google business)

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• WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin § Blog Archive § Lincoln Loop | Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  wordpress plugin for word
  (tags: wordpress)
• Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph
  must read
  (tags: social graph network)

• CodeBlacks win!!
  Well done team New Zealand.
  (tags: fullcodepress)

• Link Rolling – Social Bookmarking Gone Wild
  Yet another social bookmarking site, yet to be launched. Stumbled on this whilst looking for a domain for another idea (not a bookmarking site).
  (tags: social bookmarking)
• What do Yododo, mipang, tuniu and cn0km.com have in common?
  Chinese travel sites
  (tags: china travel)

• 30+ Tools For Working With WordPress Posts
  (tags: wordpress)
• Joey! – Mozilla’s mobile web browser plugin thingymabob
  this looks kinda interesting
  (tags: mobile mozilla)
• Automatically download new TV shows over BitTorrent with ted – Lifehacker
  via Dazzle
  (tags: bittorrent)

• New Zealand Online Media Blog
  pity they havn’t maintained momentum on this blog after this first great post
  (tags: blogs netconcepts online media business advertising)