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Closing Open Tabs

The downside to incorporating Google Reader and many, many RSS feeds into my life is that I have developed a habit of keeping too many tabs open in Firefox. I used to have to clear them out or leave my computer on in order to make use of them, prompting me to do some regular file keeping, but with a nifty browser extension that allows me to save my tab state, I don’t even do that with regularity. Here are some of the links I thought were interesting enough to pop open into a new link but not quite enough to add to my 135-deep draft queue for my blog.

The downside to incorporating Google Reader and many, many RSS feeds into my life is that I have developed a habit of keeping too many tabs open in Firefox. I used to have to clear them out or leave my computer on in order to make use of them, prompting me to do some regular file keeping, but with a nifty browser extension that allows me to save my tab state, I don’t even do that with regularity.

Here are some of the links I thought were interesting enough to pop open into a new link but not quite enough to add to my 135-deep draft queue for my blog:

  • Frog design on Identity and Meaning—some links to interesting articles, particularly one on Parenting 2.0
  • Let’s Talk America—this would have been a blog post by now, if the site had been working when I was first tipped to it. It fits very well with my ideas for a politic exchange to create a new dynamic of political conversation.
  • Structured Evidential Argumentation System and use cycles—Mark B (no, the other one) gave me some links to ways to structure discourse and support collaborative analysis
  • Listen search engine—AltSearchEngines looks at musical search
  • Refactor my Code—Paul looks at a very cool communal (exponential pair programming?) site to help debug and improve code by showing it to others
  • BeFunky—a review of a cartoonizer web site
  • Teleworker myths—Web Worker Daily looks at why telecommuting is a business and workflow plus
  • Learning retention myth—Full Circle Online helps challenge some commonly dropped stats.
  • Face-to-Face as urban legend—Virtual Handshake examines the assumption that face-to-face communication is inherently better than the computer-mediated variety
  • Who is viewing your personal brand?—Another WWD article, this one on the importance of being vigilant about who is accessing and using your online identity
  • Top 100 user-centered blogs—Virtual Hosting included our own David Roedl in the mix … and helped add about 35 new blogs to my OPML file.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.