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What should the "Share with Note" keyboard shortcut be?

Chris Wetherell, Google Reader engineer, wants to know what we think the keyboard shortcut for sharing an item with an note should be. I noted the lack of such a shortcut in my post last night. Shift+S is already for sharing. Should it be Shift+N? Shift+S n ? You can reply to Chris on Friendfeed.

Google adds all the right stuff to sharing items

You've been able to share items with your Google Reader friends forever. You could also publish a page of all the articles and pages you share to the public in HTML or RSS format. Google added a bunch of new features to Google Reader today that enhance the experience of sharing items with people. If you're a regular reader of my site, you might remember that I specifically asked for these features back in February: Currently, I’m using Facebook Shared Items to compliment my Google Reader shared items, mostly because I can personalize the message and give my shared item ...

Google Reader Team: Let me add a short comment with my shared items

Dear Google Reader team, I love sharing items with my friends on Google Reader, it's one of the best parts of the site. However, I would really like to send along a short message with my shared items. Currently, I'm using Facebook Shared Items to compliment my Google Reader shared items, mostly because I can personalize the message and give my shared item some context. If Google Reader supported something like this, even a Twitter-esque 140 character limit to the comment, I could ditch my Facebook crutch for this sort of thing. That's all, thanks! Clint

Django People

DjangoPeople is a site put together by Simon Willison & Natalie Downe that hopes to gel the Django community at large into a more cohesive group. Simon puts it this way: I'm constantly surprised by the number of people I run in to at conferences (or even in one case on the train) who are using Django but are completely invisible to the Django community. It seems that this is the downside of having good documentation: many people just read it and start building, without ever showing their face on the mailing lists or IRC. The site allows you to ...

Data Portability: The cool kids are all in, but will it work?

Analytics junkies

My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...