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• Gnomz.com - comic creator - comics creator :: Create your own geeky comics
• del.icious tag: s5present :: Post links to presentations using the S5 presentation system instead of powerpoint
• StigmergicWeb » Presentation - DIY eLearning systems :: Use an OPML web editor and a bit of XSL magic to create S5 presentations. Adios, PowerPoint!
• ELearning Processes Using Small Technologies Loosely Joined :: Dump the monolithic Learning Management System (LMS) for something simple that just works
• Magazine Cover :: Turn any flickr photo into a magazine cover.
• BlogSieve.com: Advanced Feed Processing for Atom, RDF and RSS. Create new feeds by filtering, merging and sorting existing feeds. :: filter, sort, merge, strip up to five different RSS, Atom, and RDF feeds. This space is heating up!
• apophenia: feeds and social bookmarks :: Should we be feed mixing? Danah doesn’t think so. I’m not so sure unless/until more readers are at her level of web understanding…
• Wikiwyg Home :: Add WYSIWYG editing to wikis and other text editing web applications. Could be very handy…

flickrTagFight lets you duke it out the tagging way. For example, Mac vs. Windows.

[Ruminate flickr]

FeedLounge is looking really good, and judging from discussions on the forums it seems to work well too. Are we finally seeing some real competition for Bloglines for high-volume RSS consumers? There are a number of other pretty interfaces out there, but most seem designed for people that don’t keep up with more than a few dozen feeds, and for whom feed reading is more about passive surfing than information consumption.

Maybe my bitching about the lack of progress in this arena was premature?

Of course, I can’t know until some kind soul hooks me up with an Alpha or Beta invite…

[ruminate feedlounge bloglines rss webfeeds]

• Overheard in New York :: Fascinating bits of real conversations
• IceRocket blog search :: Another blog/rss/atom search engine…

• Welcome to NK News :: NK News is a searchable database of North Korean propaganda. This site contains nearly every article published on the KCNA’s website, in English and Spanish, since Dec 2, 1996–over 50 MB of hard-core Stalinist propaganda! And a random insult generator…

• Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet - John Resig :: quickly post a page to delicious in the url field: ‘d tag1 tag2′ — picks up selection for extended entry. Cool!

• Gobby :: Free, cross-platform, collaborative text editor

NextAction is a To-Do list tracking tool that uses the Getting Things Done methodology. Like the TiddlyWiki software I mentioned in an earlier post, NextAction is a self-contained Javascript/AJAX tool that can run locally from your computer or flash drive. Paired with TiddlyWiki, this might be the ultimate in low-overheard, portable productivity…

[Ruminate GTD]

• About Feeds and Terms of Use :: Google News and News Search feeds (atom and RSS)
• Academic Commons :: a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education

Google now has feeds for News and News Searches in both Atom and RSS formats (that’s a bit surprising). Will regular searches be far behind?

[Ruminate google rss search]