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My Web Travels for July 14th 2007 through July 27th 2007

These are my web travels for July 14th 2007 through July 27th 2007:

• Neomeme » Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia – Great additional ways to use Wikipedia
• urlgreyhot | michael angeles – Nice Drupal powered site I came across
• 70+ Tools For Job Hunting 2.0 – These may come in handy as I’m currently on the market.
• TR’s July 2007 system guide – Powered by Newegg – The Tech Report – Page 1 – Good reference for determining components for my next computer purchase
• Internet Archive: Audio Archive – I’ve used archive.org for historical cached versions of web pages but wasn’t aware of their great library of audio and music until my friend pointed it out.
• Lorem Ipsum – All the facts – Lipsum generator – Very useful Lorem Ipsum generator that also provides the history behind this common dummy text used everywhere
• Compete – An interesting looking web analytics service
• Lijit | Home – This is a service that allows you to create a custom search engine. It allows the addition of the source data to roll your own engine and supports the ability to add content from all your profiles across Lifestream services. I will review this soon.
• NewTeeVee Five Free Services for Broadcasting Yourself Live « – Here’s a roundup of the up and coming live streaming services out there. This may be a good source to consider adding to a Lifestream if they allow saving of clips and providing rss feeds of them.
• Absinthe and Absinthe Accessories – I tried Absinthe a few years ago but it wasn’t official but more of a watered down version and I didn’t really feel anything. I am told this is the real stuff.

My Web Travels for July 4th 2007 through July 12th 2007

These are my web travels for July 4th 2007 through July 12th 2007:

• NPR : Songs about Feet, Math, Baseball: New Kids’ Music – Listened to this story on NPR and these really are some good kid song alternatives
• Mindomo – Web-based mind mapping software – Web based mind mapping service
• stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site –
• Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos | iStockphoto.com –
• Yotophoto | Find free photos… fast! –
• The Star Online : TechCentral – Malaysia Technology – Article provides differences between Dell e520 and 9200. I’m considering to buy a 9200 soon

Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather Cover The Smiths

I first discovered Mark Ronson (as I do most of music) while listening to KCRW. He has a pretty interesting Bio.

Here’s a snip:

DJ Mark Ronson is a sought-after turntablist, born to rock royalty, who’s worked with such diverse artists as Macy Gray, Jay-Z, and comedian Jimmy Fallon. The son of legendary rock guitarist Mick Ronson and the stepson of guitarist Mick Jones of Foreigner

His recent work titled “Version“ features a diverse pairing of songs and vocalists. One song is a cover of The Smiths “Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before”. I’m a big fan of The Smiths (glad to see Johnny Marr join Modest Mouse) and have continued to follow Morrissey, and had heard the original song more times than I can count. I’m not easily impressed by cover songs, yet this one caught my ear by surprise. You can listen to the original and watch the video on Youtube here as a reference.

Morrissey-solo.com writes:

The segueing with The Supremes’ “You Just Keep Me Hangin’ On” is just one of many remarkable points on this excellently wistful version.

You can read the rest here and on that same page I read a criticism regarding the “yeahs” in the song which I hadn’t really paid attention too until listening to it again closely. One of them actually occurs in what has to be one of the strangest lyrics ever uttered in a song. “And the pain was enough to make a shy, bald, buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder”. Although I agree that the “yeahs” are un-necessary (especially after that lyric) it didnt’ take away from my enjoyment of the song.

The vocalist on the track is Daniel Merriweather. You can learn more about him and hear the track on his (gulp) MySpace page.

I wasn’t very impressed by the video, but you can view it on Youtube if you are interested.

The rest of the songs on the CD are good and another one that really stands out is a cover of Radiohead’s Just. This CD is definitely worth checking out.

Who Wants to Pownce?

I was lucky enough to get an invite to Pownce from Michael Pate and I have used it for the last two days. I’m not really that impressed. Nothing you can’t get in tools elsewhere done much better. The client is buggy and doesn’t allow you to reply to messages within it. You need to do that from the web…pretty pointless. Also there aren’t enough distinguishable rss feeds available for the content you add. Only a you with friends messages feed and I only want mine to be provided as a feed.

In fact, if you have been interested in Pownce you should take a look at the Pownce rival comparison done at Mashable. Alternatively you can read this tongue-in-cheek (or should I say foot-in-ass) review of Pownce done at a great satirical site called Uncov. 

Hopefully it will get better over time but it’s definitely not ready for prime time.

If you are still interested I have invites for the first six callers (err…commentators). Just leave a comment below so I can get your email address to send it to you.

My Web Travels for June 29th 2007 through July 3rd 2007

These are my web travels for June 29th 2007 through July 3rd 2007:

• WordPress › Support » How to redirect from www.domain.com to domain.com – I read that it’s good from an SEO perspective to use a 301 redirect to merge your www.mysite.com with mysite.com traffic for rankings so here’s the info do modify your .htaccess file to do it
• Jott.com – Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free Messaging – Interesting service to save audio messages via your cell phone which you can later retrieve either transcribed or as audio files from the web at a later time
• Website SEO Score – Great service to analyze your site and find issues with tips on how to correct them to increase your SEO effectiveness
• Quantcast – Open Internet Ratings Service – A new web metrics and ratings site much like Alexa
• Ubuntu VMWare Images – Here’s a directory of many Ubuntu VMWare Images. Get the VMWare player and you’re all set for exploring Ubuntu in a quick and simple fashion
• Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic – This list could come in handy if I get tired of Google Analytics or just need something different
• Best of Wordpress theme galore — BlogoSquare – A collection of Wordpress Theme collections