Lazy Linkage: Sep 6, 2007

If you are a user of Google Reader, we welcome a couple new enhancements to the mix. First, you can now SEARCH your feeds. Awesome. Secondly, you can now give your tag folders real English names without Reader dumbing it down to URL-safe strings. Nice. I posted a Google Wish List over on PCMech which you can read for a little time wasting.

YoungEntreprenuer.com has posted a cool rundown of 20 tips to managing your time. Many of them are common sense, but we all need the kick in the brain every now and then.

The latest in Iphone craze? Well, Apple just screwed over almost the entire lot of early adopters of the Iphone. They lowered the price of it by $200. You know, just when I start to think kind thoughts about Apple, I see something like this which goes to show me that Apple is in the habit of kicking their customers in the nuts while simultaneously trying to tell them how great they are for using Apple. They put out all that marketing to get people to walk into the Apple store like wide eyed zombies. They plop down $600 for a cell phone, walk out with a device which ties you to AT@T, and then turn around and drop the price by a third on you.

I am a Gmail fan, but if you don’t want to use it, Mashable has posted a list of 75+ email services that aren’t Gmail.

Facebook is opening up to search engines. Yes, they are opening up Facebook profiles to be indexable by Google and Yahoo. This might rile some feathers for those who have questionable alternate personalities on the internet, but the good news for those freaks is that they can opt out of this if they wish. Personally, I think it’s fine. I mean, if you want your life to be private, what the heck are you doing online to begin with? Besides, people like me use Facebook for identity management, so I want my profile to be searchable.

And lastly, if you’re a blogger like me, you can pat yourself on the back. The US government has officially recognized blogs as a form of media, according to Techcrunch. It was determined by the Federal Elections Commission, the end result being that blogs are subject to the same freedom of speech laws as the traditional media. According to the story, it looks like the case was brought up by a conservative blogger who was complaining that the Daily Kos, a left-wing political blog, was charging for ads and posting posts favorable to Democrats. This conservative blogger claimed that the Daily Kos should comply with campaign finance laws. Well, first off, I applaud the FEC for making this decision. Secondly, that conservative blogger is a disgrace to the conservative philosophy, as far as I’m concerned.

With that, enjoy your weekend (when it gets here).

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