I got turned on to the disqus comment system by Shey Smith on his most excellent blog, http://sheysmith.com and got really motivated to install it when I heard Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur rolling in the aisles over this on their net@nite podcast broadcast live today.  It helped push me more that Dave Winer, grandaddy of rss and blogs, is using this as well.

Disqus brings video comments, along with a community of commenters, better comment formatting, and much more.  And the wordpress plugin install was as easy as could be.

• Pure Mac: Audio – Software for Macintosh – whole bunch of audio recording and editing apps for the mac
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium – The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.
• 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better | OEDb – If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the latest technology.
• 4 YouTube Tools you Probably Don?t Know About | MakeUseOf.com – best applications for dealing with Youtube
• 20+ Great Resources For Video Tutorials – Video tutorials seem to have taken over the world thanks to the ease with which they can be posted nowadays. We?ve gathered over 20 sites to help you get started with this exciting recent development in the world of the Internet.
• iDesktop.tv – iDesktop.tv is an incredibly cool dynamic web 2.0 application, with a terrific modern design, that brings you a better way to search and watch YouTube videos. Not only but you can download YouTube videos!
• Cradlepoint PHS300 Battery-Powered EVDO Router [PHS300-B] – $179.99 : 3Gstore.com, Verizon & Sprint EVDO Modems, Antennas, Amplifiers, Routers – Cradlepoint PHS300 Battery-Powered EVDO Router
• SXSW Baby! – unofficial sxsw blog

• JinaBolton.com – Jina’s website has a very sexy css stylesheet
• oaktreeidea.com – a community of hope, innovation and purpose – Oaktreeidea is not your average social networking website. Oaktreeidea is just that, an idea, an innovation. Where community members can be inspired and accomplish big things. Things with purpose.
• Explore and learn in the MindBites how-to video marketplace – how to videos
• Songza – The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now. – One of the finalists in the 2008 SXSW web awards… to say this is an internet jukebox is apt… pick a song, any song or album, and it just plays. It just plays. Simple. Easy. Revolutionary. Best website I’ve been on in weeks. I’m hooked! Awesome!
• Linux-Unix cheat sheets – The ultimate collection >> Scott Klarr – huge collection of linux cheatsheets
• A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows – analyzes your images and makes a slideshow video
• Ecolect – A Sustainable Materials Community – ecolect the community for sustainable living artilce on prefabrication and modularity
• TED: Ideas worth spreading – world’s greatest thinkers and names
• Only Human – Technology Stories – good collection of stories from techies
• Behance :: Overall Concept – The Behance team studies exceptionally productive people and teams working in the creative fields. We document the methods and resources that productive creative professionals use to push their ideas forward. By invitation only.
• GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine – God, Without the Fuss – His mother, Dodie Osteen, claims never to have seen him mad. The same goes for his brother Paul, though his senior adviser and chief of communications Donald Iloff Jr. (also Osteen’s brother in law), claims he’s seen him irritated a couple of times.
• Wired News – the monumental, great wired “yahoo rejects microsoft”
• Investing Wiki with Research about Companies, Investment Concepts, and more… – investing simplified… a must site for investors
• Techthrob.com | Technology | Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices – parallels now works on linux!

• FastCompany.com – Where ideas and people meet | Fast Company – Fast Company is about to shake things up again. Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is…
• Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool – funny flickr pix about microsoft
• HelloTxt – Home – post simultaneously to twitter, jaiku, pownce, plaxo, facebook, tumblr and a bunch more
• Free HTML Form Builder – Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations – web based form builder
• Splashup – Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
• Popular Desktop Apps And Their Online Alternatives – blog index – Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Time and money aren?t things to be wasted. With sky rocketing prices for desktop applications, you need to arm yourself with the right alternatives.
• Dive Into Web 2.0: Contents – great free web 2.0 ebook html version
• Dive Into Web 2.0 eBook – an really well presented book on the web 2.0 world
• featured drupal sites | latest showcase | drupal sites network – examples of drupal sites
• Membership Management Software and Website Design for Associations and Chambers of Commerce – Weblink International – web based membership management solution
• entrepreMusings – extraordinary woman raised about $15 million of which $3.5 million was from angels or what I would call boutique VC firms (i.e. a group of angels under one investment roof). Keep in mind that was all before the bubble burst back in 2001.
• Google Maps – googles come up with the killer election map and it’s full ‘o tweeters
• Tom Petty ? ( 187 Lyrics + 23 Albums ) – Tom Petty sings at Superbowl 2008 American Girl , Stand my Ground, Free Fallin’

• ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers – Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.
• SpaceTime? – With SpaceTime’s? 3D Web Search, you choose your search engine from the drop down menu, type in your search term and enjoy the experience as SpaceTime? displays all your search results at once in our patent pending interface. Enjoy the perks that imme
• FastCompany.tv is Coming Soon – NEW YORK, January 16, 2008 – Mansueto Digital President Edward Sussman today announced the launch of FastCompany.TV, a new online video network featuring coverage of bleeding edge technology trends, interviews with leading executives and business people,
• Works 9.0 release near; Microsoft mum on whether Google Docs killer in wings – The latest update to Microsoft Corp.’s Works productivity software is expected to go on sale Wednesday amid renewed speculation that the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office is also being groomed to take on Google Inc. in the online offi
• Screencast-O-Matic – Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!
• Linux.com :: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 – When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many of th
• Facebook | Cisco Systems – This is a group for anyone around the world, who is pursuing a career with Cisco Systems, or any other company that utilizes products, services, and technologies from Cisco Systems.
• Flickr: Tools to upload and share your photos – There are loads of ways for you to upload your photos to Flickr, in addition to the web-based upload form. Try out one of these tools to get your photos online quickly and effectively.
• Linkwad :: Firefox Add-ons – Linkwad lets you save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads. Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer. You can also share your “wads”.
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium – There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. Consider “trust.” Trust cannot be copied. You can’t purchase it. Trust must be earned, over time. It cannot be downloaded.
• Urchin Software from Google – Urchin Software from Google analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides easy-to-understand reports on your visitors – where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If
• A Whole Lotta Nothing ? Matt Haughey?s Personal Blog – How to record a good podcast between two mac users on the cheap
• FIREFOX GOD: 300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox – As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. In this list, Mashable has collected over 300 of the best.

• Theme Viewer – graphical theme viewer for wordpress
• GarageBand.com : charts – tons of podsafe music available for downloading
• ReadWriteWeb – news and apps in the web 2.0 world
• Social bookmarking services poster and community websites submitter: digg.com reddit.com netscape.com propeller.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com etc. –
• DomainsBot – Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search – great domain name search tool
• Mediafly: Technology News podcasts – really great, visually appealing podcast directory
• 12 Podcasts for the Creative Class – Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers–those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.
• Twitter Stats – springnet twitter stats
• Free Windows Vista Drivers Update Scan at RadarSync – This page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We’re offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning.
• SIW | System Information for Windows – SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100 – Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.
• Virtual Hosting Blog » The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets – The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
• What is Big Think? – Big Think – Featured Ideas – we are what you think
• vozMe – just type your text and it creates an mp3 file
• A Sample of Journals Using Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project – This is not a comprehensive list of the over 900 titles using OJS (as of March 2007) in ten languages, but includes those who have indicated an interest in being listed, and is intended to illustrate the diversity of journals using system.
• Austin jumping on Rails – What started as a grass-roots movement has become one of the hottest new things in programming technology, generating the same level of passion among its adherents as Linux, another outsider technology that moved into the mainstream.
• ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress – This article describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.
• Twitter Stats – This is a totally ugly engine to produce some stats from your Twitter feed and present them with the Google Charts API, including Tweets per hour of the day, total Tweets per day/month, top @replies and top overall @s.
• Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets – A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart?s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace?
• Software Categories – softwre applications for ubuntu gutsy (debian)
• Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move – Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website. The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
• About CMS Watch — CMS Watch – Our reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.
• Podcasting Underground | Podcasting Tips for Podcasters – In this episode of The Podcasting Underground, I talk about how I make the most money from podcasting and blogging. It?s probably not what you?re thinking. In Q3 of this year I used an often overlooked strategy to generate over $70,000 from my podcast
• Mogulus » Broadcast Live. – lifecast 24/7 with mogulus … competition for ustream.tv and justin.tv
• World?s Largest Swimming Pool cost nearly Two Billion Dollars to Build – SlashGear – Seriously, take a long and deep breath if you?re thinking of making a lap in the swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo city, Chile. The 20 acres man-made saltwater lagoon measures more than one thousand yards in length, 115 feet d
• Exclusives: The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Don’t Want You To See – Didn’t get a chance to watch the terrifyingly creepy Tom Cruise video yesterday before Scientologists pulled it off YouTube? Well, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy and now we’d like to invite you to watch in all its technicolor glory.
• SlashGear – Apparently the deal with this card is that you slide it into your iPhone and it somehow magically hardware unlocks your iPhone. I am not an electrical engineer, so I can?t tell you how well this thing will work, but if I had to guess, it won?t.
• Google Labs – Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.
• Small Laptops – Small laptop: ?A subnotebook (also known as a palmtop, a kneetop or an ultraportable) is an extremely small and lightweight portable computer, with all features of a standard laptop computer and running all its applications. Its overall size is much sm
• HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials | Howtos about Linux and Open Source – HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials about almost every topic.
• Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools | TechnoTarget – Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools
• Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN – Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which?as the name suggests?turns on your PC through your local network. Wake-on-LAN is a breeze to set up and use on your local network, and with a little legwork you can set it up so you can wake your computer away from your hom
• Thoof – Welcome to Thoof! Thoof will show you interesting news, websites, videos, and other links, personalized to your individual tastes. Just click on the stories that interest you, and let Thoof do the rest.
• Jane Austen on PBS — PVS / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs – Masterpiee the complete Jane Austen airing on PBS January through April 2008
• Ubuntu Linux Resources – a collection of tutorials and random other pages that will help Ubuntu users.
• Gridjit: A Social Portal for Twitter – The Twitter view that springnet sees.
• Podcast Generator – Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution – Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also feat

• springnet’s podcast – within 5 minutes I had a show on itunes! it was so easy it was amazing. http://www.gcast.com/u/springnet/main is the url. highly recommended
• Social Networks in Education » home – listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories).
• Infinite Thinking Machine – a single-purpose wiki for educators to link to and describe their social networking sites. I’m including a snapshot of the list as it is today, but it keeps growing and as it does so provides an interesting insight into the variety of ways that social net
• WebMynd – Home – Never bookmark or save a page again. We remember everything for you.
• Netdisaster.com – spring.net – ooops, spilled coffee on my spring.net site…. guess it’s time for a redesign
• Flickr: The Japan HDR Pool – amazing images

• 250120082.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×600 pixels) – Daikatana or “daiky” is an awesome lifecaster from the Netherlands
• SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! – SocialEngine is a PHP-based social network platform that lets you create a social network on your website. Right out of the box, your social network will offer nearly all of the features found on today’s wildly popular social networks. Instead of hosting
• DZOIC Handshakes Professional :: The Best Social Networking Script / Software in PHP – Are you looking for an ideal software solution so you can start your own social networking portal? If so, then you have just found what you were looking for.
• WordPress and aMember: Teasers – Combined with aMember, WordPress is a great CMS to use for a membership site. If you have a site where all the content is considered members only it?s a simple matter of using aMember to protect the whole site.
• Mac Daddy World – Use your iPhone?s camera as a wireless Mac webcam! Stream video over Wi-Fi to any Mac video application such as iChat, Photo Booth or Skype.

• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Scripted Re-Mark – Batch Editor for Bookmarks – manage your bookmarks stored at del.icio.us. one hit batch mode re-tag bookmarks en masse, make wholesale changes to URLs or update descriptions in bulk. toggle public/private sharing settings and mass delete bookmarks.
• The Austin Chronicle: Calendar: Recommended: 2008-01-03 – 2008-01-23 – austin chronicles calendar of events
• Patrick Timpone – new age talk show host on KLBJ Austin, healthy living for a healthy planet
• springnet – CommunityWalk – A place for spring.net website users to get to know each other geographically.
• Refresh Austin / GeekAustin Happy Hour | door64.com – For January, the GeekAustin Happy Hour moves downtown to the exceptional J Blacks. Some of you may remember that PhizzPop was hosted here last month. Well, Whurley and LinearB liked JBlacks so much that we decided to host the next few GA happy hours there
• 728uo88.png (PNG Image, 825×300 pixels) – austintexas banner
• barton springs – Google Image Search – images of austin, texas barton springs
• Viddler.com – Search results for “springnet” – Global tags » videos tagged with ?springnet?
• Austin City Limits Festival – Austin City Limits Festival Photo Gallery from the official site. Pictures by Paul Terry Walhus on spring.net/aclfest/
• Tanya Streeter – Like whales and dolphins, humans can take a breath and descend beneath the surface of the waves to experience the surreal silence and beauty of any aquatic environment.
• Tanya Streeter – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Tanya Streeter, born January 10, 1973 in Grand Cayman, is a world champion free-diver, who made her first important breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo’s Women’s No Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total depth of 370 feet (1
• PC World – Browse CES – The Microsoft chairman’s last CES keynote features a parody video and preview of multimedia products in the works.
• springnet Videos, springnet Music, springnet Photos on IMEEM – I’ve installed 3 ubuntu servers in the past 3 days.  If you go to http://delicious.com/springnet/ubuntu you can see some of the references I used in these installs.  I think ubuntu is great. What are your experiences with ubuntu?  How are y
• springnet on imeem – My page on imeem…. that goofy picture of me with the Longhorns hat the the grey wings was taken at SXSW by a nice lady at the imeem booth. Imeem is cool. Pioneering socialnet.
• LinPVR.org – linux pvr or personal video recorder or dvr digital video recorder
• Talk Digger Search for: “springnet” – IBM didn’t see it coming, but Microsoft does. They are smart. That’s why we’re aligned with them. What is this perfect storm? What happened to IBM?
• FlamingText: Free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations. – sique on jtv suggested I use this to generate my banner on http://justin.tv/austintexas… I did. It worked
• VLC media player – Overview – VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multi
• OVGuide: Online Video Guide – It’s what’s ON the Web – site recommended by a friend on jtv… the ultimate guide to online video… it’s what’s on baby
• Why should you use Runscanner? – Runscanner is a completely free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems.

• Delete duplicate lines – TextOpus – all text tools You need! – TextOpus – all text tools You need!
• ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians – ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians
• Revolution WordPress Theme – Welcome to the official Revolution WordPress theme website. If you are wanting to take your blog to a higher level, you are definitely in the right place.
• 8 great digg-like social networks for designers in 2008 – web design news – These sites are a fantastic starting point for any creative task and should be the first place to start when searching for a little quick and dirty inspiration (after you visit this site of course).
• Great Link Building Tips & Link Popularity Tools – Search engines can not determine the quality of a document without feedback. To date, linkage data from across the web has been the best form of feedback for the major search engines to use. Search engines may use other feedback

• Ultimate Boot CD – Overview – Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn’t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
• Mod My Life Has Control Issues « NewTeeVee – Is Subservient Chicken a business model? That?s what the team behind startup Mod My Life will find out as they attempt to take lifecasting to the next level by letting the audience be in control of the lifecaster.
• Submit Multiple URLs to del.icio.us Bookmarks as a Batch at Digital Inspiration – Imagine you have hundreds (or even thousands) of webpage URLs that you want to upload to your del.icio.us account. How would do this bulk submit when the delicious system allows you to bookmark web pages one at a time ?
• door64.com | Austin High-Tech Online – door64 is all about building an online community of high-tech professionals in Austin, Texas. We’re just starting out, but growing each day.
• SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards – Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected experts in the field to vote on the winners.

• Niall Corbet’s slideshow on Flickr – A wonderful slide show of images from Niall Corbet, Thailand
• Spiritual Activism – These key values are guiding forces on the path of spiritual activism. They have been used to result in tremendous power and change for the world.
• http://chrisbrogan.com/rockstars/ – Here?s a list of blogs, podcasts, and videoblogs of people. People who come here, or who I love, or who make the story better when you get into it all. If you?re part of [chrisbrogan.com], then you should be on this page. Email me : blog [at] chrisbro
• HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Theo Van Gogh and the Golden Age of Hollywood – The author, former Playboy bunny and activist Susan Dusty ALDOUS joins us. Dusty delivers a birthday cake to celebrate, as my mum would say, Virginias 19th birthday.
• Videoguys – Focus FS-4 on sale $699.95 – Weighing about one pound and only 1.5 inches thick, the FS-4 Portable DTE Recorder brings Direct To Edit® Technology to your DV or HDV handheld camcorder is what Cali Lewis uses.
• J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web – I’m Living In My Tabset I noticed today that Windows XP pretty much confirms that I no longer use desktop applications like I used to. This is http://twitter.com/ourfounder
• iSmi –
• Austin – Mahalo – This search result is for information on Austin, Texas. We also have results for Austin Restaurants, Austin Vacation, Austin Tours, and Austin Hotels.
• HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Surfer rock legend is now Thai expat with new memoir – once upon a time, in the California Inland Empire outside of Los Angeles, garage rock ruled. A young surfer dude dreamed of escape from the provincial ticky tacky of Riverside. Little did Rick Brown know his fate was to be the lead singer of one of the gr
• PickyPirate – A Metacritic-Bittorrent mashup – This is a mashup between Metacritic and leading bittorrent search engines Mininova and The Pirate Bay. It displays the most highly rated items from the last month, and does its best to match it automatically with the healthiest public torrent available.