• Showfinder: Watch your favorite TV shows online
  (tags: howto tv)
• How to Foil "Phishing" Scams
  (Scientific American)
  (tags: research article security phishing)
• Administrative Virtues: The Case of Larry Summers
  (Stanley Fish, NYTimes blog)
  (tags: article politics)
• Group hopes to shape nation's privacy policy
  (tags: article privacy)

• 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
  (tags: politics elections maps)

• Review of Born Digital
  in the Washington Post
  (tags: article bookreview)

• Who else reads your e-mail?
  (Christian Science Monitor) by fellow Berkman Fellow Harry Lewis
  (tags: article privacy email)

As noted a while back, with the upgrade of the social bookmarking site Delicious came the end of its important feature: automatic posting of links to one’s blog. (This feature didn’t break for everyone, apparently, but it did for me. And although Delicious promises a 24-hour turnaround in response to customer support queries, I didn’t hear back from them for a week about this issue only to be told that it’s an optional feature that they don’t support anyway.)

More than I would have predicted, my use of the service plummeted in the weeks following the change in service. Over the past month, I’ve bookmarked less than a couple of dozen links, which regular users know is much lower than my usual bookmarking tendencies. Then suddenly, I realized yesterday that the links were back. I wonder if this will continue, presumably it will. I guess I’ll start bookmarking pages again. And one of these days perhaps I’ll find the time to create a list of missed links manually.

So onward and upward with pointers.

• ReCal: reliability calculation for the masses
  (tags: ToRead tools research)
• Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism
  (Newsweek)
  (tags: politics election08 elections08 article)

• AppAppeal
  reviews of Web-based applications
  (tags: web20 reviews tools reference)

I guess Delicious isn’t managing to respond to customer service requests within 24 hours (I’ve been waiting for about 72-96 hours now.

• SeniorPlanet
  “the digital community for older adults”
  (tags: users elderly frbk)
• Poisson Rouge
  English, French, Spanish games for kids (and adults)
  (tags: fun games language)
• How to Choose an Image Format for Screenshots
  JPG, PNG or GIF?
  (tags: howto images edit)
• TweetBeep - Twitter Alerts
  “like Google Alerts for Twitter” - monitor keywords/URLs posted on Twitter
  (tags: twitter monitoring alerts)

• How to Choose an Image Format for Screenshots
  JPG, PNG or GIF?
  (tags: howto images edit)
• TweetBeep - Twitter Alerts
  “like Google Alerts for Twitter” - monitor keywords/URLs posted on Twitter
  (tags: twitter monitoring alerts)
• Barack Roll
  in the spirit of Rickrolling
  (tags: video funny dance)
• Poll Everywhere
  live polling using SMS (USA)
  (tags: sms polling surveys)
• Downloadr for Downloading multiple Flickr images in a batch
  (tags: flickr software free freeware tools)

• Buzzword Bingo Card Generator
  (tags: games conferences)

• Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
  (NYTimes)
  (tags: ToRead books internet reading)
• Kansan sticks it to election system
  (LATimes) article about Kansan Sean Tevis who ran the xkcd-type campaign and ended up with almost $100K in online donations
  (tags: politics internet article)

• Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account
  excellent new GMail feature
  (tags: gmail email howto)
• The Online Legacy of Professor Pausch
  a roundup of links
  (tags: health education advice)

• Mortgage or Investments Calculator
  (tags: calculator finances)
• The Best Poverty-Fighting Bet
  (Slate) “The Google IPO event of the nonprofit world”
  (tags: article poverty philanthropy nonprofit)

• American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy
  (The Independent)
  (tags: ToRead article inequality usa healthcare)

• Tour de France - Live Tracker 2008
  very cool visualization using Google Maps Street View
  (tags: googlemaps maps sports)
• Housing Maps
  mashup of Craig’s List information and Google Maps
  (tags: googlemaps mashup)
• Free Documentaries
  full-length documentaries available for free
  (tags: video free movies)
• BBC - Science & Nature - Sex ID
  (tags: gender quiz)
• The Internet Literacy Handbook
  (tags: skill digital-literacy)

• How to create a web form to talk with Google Docs
  (tags: howto googledocs spreadsheet forms)
• Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars
  so geeky, so fun
  (tags: video starwars)

• What Mainstream Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales
  (Houston Press) That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story — part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine.
  (tags: article scam sales marketing business fraud)

• At Google Finance, Google’s profit miss not news
  (IR Web Report)
  (tags: news google gatekeeping)
• Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail time
  (AP) how prosecutors are using pictures from SNS such as Facebook and MySpace in court cases
  (tags: article crime facebook myspace sns law photos)

• Adeona
  just in case your laptop gets stolen
  (tags: software security privacy)

• GMail works with eBay and PayPal to fight against phishing messages
  unless a message is really from ebay.com or paypal.com, it shouldn’t show up in GMail inboxes (or even spam folders) at all
  (tags: email phishing security gmail ebay paypal)
• XKCD-style political fundraising cartoon
  excellent, if I was eligible to donate, I’d give him the $8.34 he’s asking for
  (tags: politics cartoon funny)