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18Jun/080

Google Reader Stats

I've been using Google Reader for about a year now. In addition to being a great cross platform RSS aggregation tool, it provides some interesting stats (Trends) about your reading habits. For instance, I've read 4,627 over the last 30 days - on average that's 155.73/day. Of those 4,672, I've shared less than 5% (4.64%) of the posts/articles that I've read and starred less than 1% (.47%).

The numbers are probably a little skewed by the amount of crap shared from the CNN news feed. 90% junk / 10% worthwhile, but the 10% makes it worth keeping.

Another reason for the low percent of shared information is the amount of duplication across blogs and writers. It's nuanced and worth reading each post, but usually only worth sharing the first mover.

Even though I am spending more time at FriendFeed these days, I find Google Reader and RSS aggregation to still be the meat and potatoes of my internet experience, FriendFeed is the dessert. I guess that'd make Twitter the soda pop.

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18Jun/084

Zune Theme for XP

I was reading this post by Brad Linder over at Download Squad, when I spotted this line, "Officially you're pretty much stuck with Windows XP, Windows Classic, and a Microsoft Zune theme." I thought to myself, what the heck is the Micrsofot Zune theme.

Well for me and the rest of the uneducated, here's a post on Download Squad from Nov 2006 talking about the Windows XP Zune theme. Basically it's a really cool XP theme that doesn't require any patching or third party apps.

I still run one XP machine at home and two at work and they're all getting a make over today. Thanks Download Squad. Check it out for yourself at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078