Michael Gracie 

ReadWriteWeb posted a handy list of Yahoo! Pipes, particular for those who need to filter their morass of social services feeds. Note for the newbie: you can build off the pipes in the lists, essentially customizing them to your own specifications before you subscribe. Utilizing a shared pipe also reduces the need for programming skills, [...]

Rough schedule today, hence the laziness Doing what I couldn’t with TotJot, and sounds just as nice – TotSpot. The company is presently in private beta, which is something we didn’t do at TotJot – our engineering arm built a solid, extensible platform and then we decided to go the PR consulting route (despite having [...]

How many coats of stripper does it take to get to the primer on a Tootsie Roll pop? A bike, first left in storage and then propped in a corner, became a weekend project. The thought was change the look, shed a pound or two, and make it a little more comfortable for its out-of-shape [...]

Eric Savitz asked the question, with emphasis on Yell Group. They just might. It’s a profitable business, and maybe the only segment in print publishing NOT whining about Craigslist. Plus, it’s generating revenue with something Google gives away, local listings. From what I remember, yellow pages businesses actually get a premium for their web listings, [...]

I’m not sure if The Associated Press is now a subsidiary of the National Association of Realtors, but their headlines sure make them seem that way… Home sales unexpectedly rise in April : Sales of new homes rose in April for the first time in six months although the unexpected increase still left activity near [...]

Like a linkfest link barrage, only post-nap George Soros says it’s an oil bubble; he could have been nice enough to comment here, instead of going straight to the mainstream media. Still, speculation is rampant. Jerome Kerviel didn’t act alone? Once again, no surprise here. Giving away your product, while praying, should not be part [...]

Noting if you drive 65 mph the whole way, you save a lot of gas I spent Sunday night out. Green Mountain Reservoir was the spot, and casting double streamers into the Corey’s Slough (named after the joker who discovered it) runout was the game plan. Arrived, set up the tent, and then took the [...]

Barry Ritholtz, what say ye? How else can you explain their shameless twisting of their own data? Don’t these damn fools realize that they have simply lost all credibility? I have heard more than a few Real Estate agents complain that sellers have unrealistic expectations of prices, due in large part to the ongoing and [...]

Via (where else) but The New York Times: Today our beta version of Times Reader for the Mac becomes available. The beta is free for all registered members of NYTimes.com to download and try. From perusal of the comments, most are none too happy about installing the Microsoft Silverlight plugin in order to make this [...]

Via Moldy Chum: The American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) announced today that it has hired Gary Berlin as the trade association’s president. A former human resources manager and Area/District Wildlife Manager for the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the recent head of the International Hunter Education Association, Berlin brings nearly thirty years of experience [...]