links for 2008-09-19

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  Kevin Kelly on The Whole Earth Catalog as Blog Precursor
  “This I am sure about: it is no coincidence that the Whole Earth Catalogs disappeared as soon as the web and blogs arrived. Everything the Whole Earth Catalogs did, the web does better.”
  (tags: kevin+kelly whole+earth+catalog blogging)
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  FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection - ReadWriteWeb
  I might have to try Friendfeed again, now that they are cutting down the torrent with ‘duplicate detection’, maybe better called pile-up detection. Multiple friends pointing to the same story now gets consolidated like a techmeme cluster.
  (tags: techmeme friendfeed duplicate+detection)
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  louisgray.com: Bret Taylor on FriendFeed’s Road to Monetization, Early Surprises
  Louis relates a recetn presentation by Bret Taylor, founder of Friendfeed. Best bit: “Kara Swisher helpfully added that [the tech elite] group was pretty small to begin with. “It’s 14 slightly-overweight white guys,” she offered.”
  (tags: kara+swisher louis+gray bret+taylor friendfeed conversation+aggregation lifestreaming strategy)
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  JetBlue pulls the Zig
  Spike Jones of Brains On Fire claims that JetBlue is auctioning flights on eBay, but when I looked I didn’t see any. Maybe a one-time experiment?
  (tags: spike+jones brains+on+fire jetblue ebay)
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  The Quantified Self
  Kevin Kelly starts a new blog about ‘self-tracking’.
  (tags: self+tracking kevin+kelly)
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  JuiceTorrent
  A social widget that allows your supporters to direct money to you or your cause by having ads played on their websites. In private beta. [via Joho]
  (tags: juicetorrent social+ads)
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  Zell is not your problem. You are.
  Jarvis tells LA Times journalists to stop whining about the owners of newspapers being the problem. Get a mirror, he says.
  (tags: the+death+of+newspapers jeff+jarvis sam+zell la+times)