Susan Getgood on LinkedIn and Facebook.  It seems to me that LinkedIn could own the grownup population if it would make a few tweaks and open its API.  Susan is right- it’s way too hard to find people in Facebook.  I find most of these social networks to be either chaotic or boring.  I want mine just right.  Like porridge.

Richard Querin has discovered a very useful Firefox extension.

Seth finally got paroled from Wikipedia.  He successfully overcame the Finkelstein Paradox.  Shel Israel is happy to take his place.

If you’ve been wondering about the status of Web 2.0 in Romania, read on.

Valleywag says Scoble wants a new gig.  Scoble says he has committed to stay at PodTech “until 2008,” or stated another way, for another 6 months and 16 days.  I’m still a little bitter about getting booted from Scoble’s reading list, but blogging is blogging and life is life, and if stories like this adversely affect Scoble’s job, that’s not cool.

Newly subscribed: Matt Moran.  Newly unsubscribed: Ben Metcalfe, Ben Werdmuller and Craig Newmark (all have been dropped from my swivel feeds for non-participation).

@Scott Karp:  No, text messaging is not a viable media and advertising platform for older people (like me).  No one I know over 35 has even the slightest interest in text messaging.  The only way to change that is to wait 20 years.

I’ve told anyone who will listen that the Drive-By Truckers are the best active American rock band.  Take Outfit off their 2003 record Decoration Day.

Mighty fine rock and roll.  I love the lines “So don’t try to change who you are boy, and don’t try to be who you ain’t.  And don’t let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-man’s paint.”  Go buy that record now.

Jeneane Sessum isn’t all that fired up about the new Technorati design.

Join the best series in the blogosphere: Quasi Fictional’s “What is a blog to you series.”

Dwight has a great post about things to love and hate in Vista.  User Account Control just about ruined Vista for me.  Until I killed it.  Now I’m mildly Vista positive.

Now Comcast is making absurd HD channel claims.  At the rate we’re going, someone is going to promise a million HD channels by Labor Day.

A 3 year old makes and keeps a 10 year vow of silence?  Reminds me of that kid in Little Miss Sunshine.

Zen Habits has 27 skills your kids need that aren’t taught in school.

Newly subscribed: EchoDitto Labs.  Newly unsubscribed: None, but there are several on the verge.

Mashable has a useful list of 120+ RSS resources.  Fadtastic has a list of 25 ways to improve your web site (Amen to number 3).  The best way, of course, is to add Newsome.Org to your blogroll.

27 confessions of a former Circuit City employee.  It’s all about extended warranties and accessories.

Here’s one of my favorite things in the blogosphere.  People create some new phrase (say, for example, the 4 Hour Workweek) and start to create a religion around it.  Then Stowe Boyd comes along, calls bullshit on it and provides a common sense, logical answer.  I love this quote: “Most people operate on the assumption that the response to increased flow is to intensify what was working formerly: read more email, read more blogs, write more IMs, and so on. And at the same time motor on with the established notions of what a job is, how to accomplish work and meet deadlines, and so on.”  People absolutely have to pick and choose.  Successful people have mastered the art of picking and choosing.  Very successful people have mastered the art of picking and choosing in a way that doesn’t make them look like assholes.

Chip Camden is related to Pocahontas.  Pocahontas is a great song by Neil Young.  That song mentions the Astrodome.  The Astrodome is in Houston.  I live in Houston.  Synchronicity.  Voltaire Camden?  I bet he was the toughest kid in town by the time he was 6.

Newly subscribed: Jimmy Huen.  Newly unsubscribed: None, but there are several on the verge.

Zen Habits has 20 Ways to Eliminate Stress from You Life.  Lifehacker chimes in on creating a more healthy inner life.  On the other hand, if you simply want to avoid screwing up your life, there’s this.  Personally, I just want to win the lottery.

WikiHow has 11 steps for being a good boss.  I spend a fair amount of time thinking about management and group-building, and I think this is a good article.

A HD DVD Player for $199?  Even if you have to wait a little, this is a good deal.

Idiots from my home state killed a summer reading program because they talked about astrology, palm reading and whatnot.  Now the kids just sit around and eat pizza.  Unbelievable.

A whole lot of people are helping Andr*w Ke*n prove that he is, in fact, a lot smarter than we are by continuing to write about him.  He calls us stupid amateurs.  People write hordes of indignant posts about it.  He gets rich and famous.  Repeat.

Butts arrested for stealing toilet paper.  Husband Seymour had no comment.

Shelley Powers on Joost: “Joost is the most uncommunicative company I have ever seen that’s dependent on the beta process and word of mouth. Company personnel never participate in the forum, update the company weblog, or respond to bug submissions.”

David Peralty doesn’t like multiple page posts.  Me either.  Partial feeds are bad enough.  I can’t think of a single blogger who would remain in my reading list if they used multiple page posts.

Ed Bott on the dangers of unintentional data in Word documents.  This is a huge issue for law firms, and many (including mine) automatically scrub documents to remove metadata, Tracked Changes and other hidden data from documents before they are emailed.  I once got a copy of a letter of intent on a huge deal from the other side, which inadvertently showed the revisions to the letter of intent with the prior prospective buyer.  I didn’t read or use that information, but I could have.

John Tropea has a write-up on using Facebook outside the walls.  Paging Mike Seyfang, who is also experimenting with this.

Scott Hanselman has 32 ways to keep your blog from sucking.  I agree with most of them, but not number 2 (keep overtly personal stuff out of your tech blog).  Granted, there is a marginal utility to the personal stuff, but if you avoid it to an extreme, your blog becomes just another boring little newspaper equivalent churning out yet another post about something that everyone else has already written to death.  The personal stuff humanizes a blog and helps you connect with your readers.  If he changed “overtly” to “excessive,” I’d agree.  I already agree with number 30 (avoid category specific feeds).  No one is interesting enough for me to read their blog a la carte.  I’m either all in or all out.