For Kent: My Swivel Feeds

Kent has asked me to contribute five feeds to his swivel feeds experiment (I'm honored, by the way). I was going to include Engadget, Scoble, TechCrunch and Dave Winer as jokes, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity so here's my contribution:

curiousgirl's playground - I discovered Jing's blog after the Penn link love that went around a few months ago. She writes about tech, business, web 2.0 and the like and her posts never cease to impress me.

Daring Fireball - I was hoping to include less known blogs in my list, but I couldn't pass up a link to DF. John Gruber is the ultimate Apple fanboy, except with an added touch of class and objectiveness, that make him the go-to guy for big-picture Apple commentary.

Information Arbitrage - Roger writes about finance and technology, two of my biggest interests, and that's what keeps me coming back. I really can't name any other blog that tackles these two areas in a way that strikes me as well as IA.

Marginal Revolution - Marginal Revolution is like Freakonomics taken to the next level. Alex and Tyler have their share of fun and quirky econ stories, but they're balanced well by more serious and/or theoretical pieces. Favorite recurring themes include "Markets in everything" and "Claims my Russian wife laughs at".

Signal vs Noise - Another popular one, but I love the simplicity that surrounds everything 37 Signals does. I can't say I'm a big user of their products, but I love their design and (by extension) their software development philosophies.

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A Sentence

I saw this on Kent Newsome's blog. I'll take any excuse to get distracted from studying…

Here are the instructions:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Turn to page 161.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post it with these instructions.
  5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Here's mine:
Finally, a fluctuating price may impose excessive risk on one or the other party.

From Krugman/Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory & Policy. Exciting, huh?

What's yours say?

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Megiterrific

I noticed a bunch of referrer links coming in from several Personal Megite pages, no doubt due to my comment on Scoble's latest Origami post.

While I do appreciate the page hits, and I probably shouldn't complain, I have yet to post the word "origami" anywhere on this site and so that means Megite is broken. From what I can tell from Megite's confusing font-size-based hierarchical layout, only about half the links under "Related Items" are actually about Origami and the rest are simply links to the blogs people "claimed" on Robert's post's comments. There's even a link to Myspace in there. It seems even Rupert Murdoch is trying to figure out what lies and what doesn't lie in Origami's path of death and destruction.

Of course if that didn't get me on Megite for Origami, ranting about a link on Megite relating to Origami sure will.

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