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Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57:

• WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode – "Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57:

• WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode – "Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 11th from 13:52 to 14:37:

• Google Gmail, Google Apps Outage in the Cloud | SuaraNews.com – Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time away from the messaging and collaboration platforms flogging the company on the Google Apps discussion group. Can Microsoft and other SAAS newcomers take advantage of these Google Gmail and Google Apps outages?

  Several Google users, some of them paying customers, found themselves knocked out of Google Apps and Gmail after an "access issue" knocked out the company’s software as a service suite for 15 hours.

• Online Event Registration Service – Eventbrite – This might be useful for registration/RSVP for some events I have planned coming up. Jack Vinson told me it's a free service for free events. Have you used this service? What did you think?

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 11th from 08:25 to 08:25:

• Is there a Tumblr plugin for EE? | ExpressionEngine Community Forums – One of my clients has a site built in Expression Engine — which is powerful, but more complex than necessary to make quick link-blurb style posts. This discussion thread in the EE forum indicates that it might be possible to post to an EE site via Tumblr.

  Has anyone actually done this? Please comment below.

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 10th from 20:33 to 20:33:

• agahran's Bookmarks on Delicious –

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 10th from 15:45 to 15:45:

• BarCampHouston3 recap | David Herrold – This is a pretty good recap explaining why a BARcamp might be useful not just to geeks, but to media folks and others who work with geeks. Good stuff!

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 10th from 09:13 to 09:13:

• Stanford Prison Experiment: Quiet Rage (DVD) – Dr. Philip Zimbardo's The Stanford Prison Experiment documentary Quiet Rage features archival footage, flashbacks, post-experiment interviews with the prisoners and guards, and comparisons with real prisons. It documents the surprise arrests by city police and vividly shows the pathology that developed among participants, forcing the two-week study to be terminated after only 6 days. The Stanford Prison Study is one of the most famous films used in the study of Social Psychology

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 10th from 09:13 to 09:13:

• Stanford Prison Experiment: Quiet Rage (DVD) – Dr. Philip Zimbardo's The Stanford Prison Experiment documentary Quiet Rage features archival footage, flashbacks, post-experiment interviews with the prisoners and guards, and comparisons with real prisons. It documents the surprise arrests by city police and vividly shows the pathology that developed among participants, forcing the two-week study to be terminated after only 6 days. The Stanford Prison Study is one of the most famous films used in the study of Social Psychology

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 7th from 17:13 to 17:13:

• WordPress app makes mobile blogging effortless on iPhone – IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE iPhone and Touch news – A more detailed review of the wordpress iPhone app I posted about earlier today. It says you CAN handcode HTML in posts with that app. I'll go back and try that.

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 6th from 11:01 to 11:30:

• delicious support forum – Firefox addon limits notes to 255 characters – Apparently, delicious is working on upgrading their FF3 bookmarklet to allow the full 1000 characters in the notes field. Here you can follow the news on this update. It'll be a boon for microblogging!
• Delicious.com Relaunches with 1,000-Character Notes Fields | 43 Folders – LOL! the relaunched delicious.com now has a 1000-character notes field, which is great! Problem is, their posting bookmarklet still only seems to accept the old limit, 255 characters….
• Bookmarklets in ExpressionEngine Documentation – EE is powerful, but can be cumbersome for posting. But there's hope: Under weblog settings: "The Bookmarklet section allows you to create a customized bookmarklet, permitting you to add entries to your site while browsing the internet."
• Why I’m kissing Tumblr a sad, sad good-bye » 16th letter » Blog Archive – Apparently, search engines don't like Tumblr much….
• one hundred push ups – A pretty simple, basic, physical fitness program. I'm trying it.