Bastrop Builder and Community

President
McCain  13797
Obama   11678

US Senate
Cornyn  13458
Noriega  11086

US Rep, Dist 10
McCaul  3518
Doherty  4018

US Rep, Dist 25
Morovich  6745
Doggett  10287

Railroad Commissioner
Michael Williams  11521
Mark Thompson  11710

State Rep, Dist 17
Kleinschmidt  12960
Dippel  11352

423rd District Judge
Van Gilder  10453
Duggan  14697

Sheriff
Pickering  12841
Smith  12560

County Commissioner, Pct 1
Willie Piña 3908
Dock Jackson  3702

County Commissioner, Pct 3
Loucks 2601
Klaus  3215

President - Barak Obama (D)
US Senate - John Cornyn (R)
US Rep, Dist 10 - Michael McCaul (R)
US Rep, Dist 25 - Lloyd Dogget (D)
Railroad Commissioner - Michael Williams (R)

Chief Justice, Tx Supreme Court - Wallace Jefferson (R)
Tx Supreme Court, Place 7 - Dale Wainwright (R)
Tx Supreme Court, Place 8 - Phil Johnson (R)
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 - Tom Price (R)
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 - Paul Womack (R)
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9 - Cathy Cochran (R)

State Rep, District 17 - Tim Kleinschmidt (R)

Chief Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals - Woddie Jones (D) (replacing
incumbent Republican Ken Law)
21st District Judge - Terry Flenniken (D) (unopposed)
335th District Judge - Reva Towslee Corbett (R) (unopposed)
423rd District Judge - Chris Duggan (D) (replacing Republican
Charlotte Hinds, whom Derek Van Gilder defeated in the primary)

Sheriff - Terry Pickering (R)

County Tax Assessor-Collector - Linda Harmon (D)

County Commissioner, Precinct 1 - Willie Piña (R)
County Commissioner, Precinct 3 - John Klaus (D)

Constable, Precinct 1 - Dan Hall (R) (unopposed)
Constable, Precinct 2 - Gus Meduna (D) (unopposed)
Constable, Precinct 3 - Matt Henderson (D) (unopposed)
Constable, Precinct 4 - Roy Pruneda (D) (unopposed)

This is the full 40 minute video of Bob Cole and Bucky Godbolt from KVET appearing at Baxters on Main in Bastrop, Texas on Friday, August 1, 2008.  Ronnie Macdonald, Bastrop County Judge, and Terry Orr, Bastrop Mayor, stepped up to the mic on this early morning Austin radio talk show.  Click on the link below to play.

At a recent candidates forum, I took Ed Skarnulis aside and asked him about what the “real” issues were and he told me there was something big on the horizon that no one was talking about. He told me how the counties north of Bastrop are sucking our Bastrop County water supply dry. If you thought the Alcoa crisis was big, Alcoa pales in the face of this major threat to Bastrop county’s water supply future. I got the following from Mitzi Van Sant who I recently interviewed at a candidates party at her home in Smithville (you can see the video in another blog post on this web site).

Read this if you care about the future of your water supply in Bastrop County. This affects everyone, not just builders.

BASTROP COUNTY DENIED WATER NEEDED FOR GROWTH

Letter to the Editor by Steve Box, Environmental Stewardship

Wednesday September 17, 2008, will be noted in history as the first official vote by the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District to deny a water permit application in Bastrop County because of high volume water pumping activities by its neighboring Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District. AQUA Water Supply Corporation applied for permits for seven (7) wells to be drilled in the County to meet the projected needs of our communities in the next 50 years.

After study by the District’s groundwater hydrologist using State mandated modeling techniques and permitted values from neighboring Districts, it became very clear that the water permits already issued by Post Oak Savannah for the Porter’s well field in Burleson County draw down the aquifers in Lee and Bastrop Counties to below conditions that are desirable and sustainable into the future.

As a result, the Board of Directors of the Lost Pines District voted to grant only three of the seven wells AQUA needs to meet the water needs of the residential and business developments in their service area. Besides the AQUA water application, there are applications for additional water on file by other applicants that will likely be denied also. These are huge deficits to our future water needs and have huge implications regarding the future water supplies for our region.

For some time now I’ve been watching the water wars develop right here in our back yard and Wednesday they hit home sooner than expected. To give a quick overview, the planning region in the Brazos River basin north of Bastrop County which supplies Williamson County north of Austin has planned for many years, despite protests from the Lost Pines District, to pump high volumes of water out of Lee, Burleson, Brazos, Milam and Robertson Counties in order to provide the future water needs of their region.

Post Oak Savannah has responded to the water marketers by selling them huge volumes of groundwater in excess of what is available on a sustainable basis (pumping = recharge) which then draws on the aquifers of neighboring counties like ours. And they are profiteering from this to the tune of about $75,000 per month even though not a drop of water is being pumped yet. Even though AQUA water has current needs for water to service local subdivisions the water marketers are tying up the water that would be available for our use while they don’t even have significant customers or the means to pump or transport the water.

Meanwhile, the Lost Pines District has had to modify its management plan to accommodate this high volume pumping by greatly lowering the future levels of our aquifers to levels they originally considered undesirable – an action that threatens our water supply and environment.

It is time for the people and officials of Bastrop County to be fully informed of what is happening and be given the opportunity to weigh in on the issues. I am told that many of the shallow exempt wells in the county, along with many springs, seeps and base flow to the Colorado River, are threatened by these actions.

If you too are concerned, you should write or call the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District and ask that the district hold a public meeting to fully inform the citizens of our community about the implications of these issues to the citizens of Bastrop County. Request that the District take a firm stand against the actions of these other districts by insisting that the groundwater supplies of the Carrizo-Wilcox and associated aquifers of the region be protected in a manner that sustains the water available for Bastrop and surrounding counties far into the future. For more information you may also contact Steve Box at 512-300-6609 Steve.Box@att.net or go to Environmental-Stewardship.org

Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District contact information: Joe Cooper, General Manager, P.O Box 1027, Smithville, TX 78957, (512) 360-5088, e-mail lpgcd@lostpineswater.org or www.lostpineswater.org

Steve Box
P.O. BOX 1423
BASTROP, TX 78602
512-300-6609

Bastrop, Texas candidates forum for the November 2008 election. Candidates appeared for Sheriff, Bastrop County Commissioner, and District Court Judge.

Bob Cole and Bucky Godbolt brought the KVET traveling show to Bastrop, TX on August 1, 2008. We’re going to run a 5 part series on this event starting with their interview with Bastrop County Judge Ronnie Macdonald. Much more to come in the coming days.

This is part 1 or a 2 part series on the Bastrop, Texas Candidates Forum on Sunday, Sept 21, 2008.

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Stay tuned for the 2nd video in this series in a few days. Also, we’ll be submitting this to BCAT - Bastrop Community Access TV.

Lindsay Campbell did hundreds of episodes of the insanely popular Wallstrip and is now doing something totally new and different, a show about news and politics. We luckily catch her in an interview on day 1 of SXSW. There will be blog is Lindsay’s clip from sxsw which includes two cuts of austincasts Paul Terry Walhus talking about Matt Mullenwegg and “wholesome, family podcasts”. “MobLogic shamelessly pimps fellow bloggers in a pathetically transparent attempt to promote itself” it says on moblogic.tv’s episode page.

pingback austincast.com/blog bastropbuilder.com/blog compuslides.com/blog gameslides.com/blog magickpapers.com/blog shopslides.com/blog touroftexas.com/blog spring.net/blog socobuzz.com/blog web2.0slides.com/blog webgirlvillage.com/blog wholetech.com/blog wmeyers.com/blog workontheweb.com/blog

These are my links for September 2nd through September 15th:

• Irssi - Community Ubuntu Documentation - Irssi is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is a text-based client as it lacks a graphical user interface (gui) such as XChat, Chatzilla and others.
• Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep - Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
• Gnip API v1.3 - The Gnip API provides notification of activities (events) occurring in a variety of services and, whenever possible, a guid that identifies the activity itself vis a vis the service it was created on. Activity examples include a user “tweet” (twitter), a user “dugg” (digg), a user creating a blog post, etc.
• CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database - CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
• ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online - A great roundup of business tools for running a business, all web based. I found some good stuff here.

These are my links for November 8th through November 12th:

• How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter - Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter
• Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat - NYTimes.com - Any car company that gets taxpayer money must demonstrate a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-electric engine with flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next generation cellulosic ethanol.
• monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget - monitter? what is it? Simple. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?
• 30+ Great Web Tools You Might not Know Yet but Should | SEOptimise - social media, web design & development, search, SEO and analytics, e-commerce, blogging and Internet tools are not yet widely known main stream tools
• Social Networking Sites | Social Networks Directory - search engine for finding social networks, impressed with results I got

The event in the YouTube series of videos (below) took place at Mitzi VanSant’s lovely home in Smithville, Texas. It was a perfect setting in a prefect town for the Democrats for US Senate in Texas, and for many other national, statewide and local offices to gather and meet.

There was an abundant potluck, drinks of all kinds, music, and plenty of shade (important in Texas). Some of the people you’ll see in the video include Chris Duggan (running for Bastrop District Judge), Rick Noriega (running for US Senate), Wayne Smith (running for Bastrop Sheriff), Susan Shelton (Democratic strategist), Mitzi VanSant (the party host), Larry Joe Doherty (running for US Congress), Linda Yanez (running for Judge statewide), Susan Strawn and many others. Best celebrity sitings since Brad and Angie left town.

These are my links for September 20th through October 9th:

• Tweetmeme - 15:20 PM, October 9th, 2008 GB - less structured way to keep track of what links are buzzing on twitter categories links in to blog, image, video and audio posts
• Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what’s hot right now - What’s hot on twitter right now
• Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter - top trends on twitter, use this to stay ahead of the curve and tracks links
• Twubble - suggests new twitter friends based on your current twitter friends
• Tweet Scan - Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter and identi.ca. Tweet Scan indexes all public messages on both services so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets/dents you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, and Twhirl.
• GroupTweet - GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
• Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast: Broadcast any audio on Mac OS X - Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world!
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - some excellent wordpress themes

These are my links for August 1st through August 31st:

• Eventbrite - TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up - TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures (http://www.austinventures.com/). We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits (http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx) music festival. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes to give away to sponsors and attendees, and will be announcing details of music festival give aways in the coming weeks.
• Rudder - The New Free Online Money Management, Budget Planning And Personal Finance Software - product that looks forward and determines how much you can spend today and still pay all your bills
• Gustav Information Center - good social network resource along with http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav for tracking Gustav news and resources
• Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com - Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system. Send automated thank you notes to new followers, automatically follow new followers,
  if you choose to do so.
• (6) near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi - Twitter Search - realtime search results for twitter tweets near Austin, Texas. Twitters official advanced search.
• SocialGO - Social Network Maker - Create your own Social Network for FREE
• Mashable Summermash Austin interview with Will Pate - spring.net - Spring.net interviewed Will Pate. Will cohosts CommandN a very popular video podcast with Amber Macarthur out of Toronto, Canada. He founded Raincity Studios which recently bought Bryte. Will ?can?t talk? about some upcoming ventures, but he does talk broadly about his future direction.

  Spring.net did over 30 interviews at the Summermash Party in Austin at Buffalo Billiards on the night of July 30, 2008 and also videod the entire daytime Socialmedia Camp at the Thistle Cafe on West Sixth Street in Austin. The evening party featured an open bar, food, and a packed second floor. Brian Massey said ?It took a bunch of people from San Franciso to round up some of Austin?s best bloggers and developers in one place.?

  We?ll be releasing the full 5 hour session of the Mashable Social Media Camp on one hour installments and we?ll also be releasing all of the 30 plus interviews over the next 2-3 weeks.

Mitzi VanSant’s charming Smithville home was the gathering place for Democratic Candidates for office for US Senate, Texas Supreme Court, US House of Representatives, Bastrop County Sheriff, and Bastrop District Judge. This is the first video in an 8 part series of videos of the event. It will feature appearances by Chris Duggan, Wayne Smith, Lloyd Doggett, Joe Doherty, Susan Shelton, Linda Yanez, Rick Noriega and Mitzi VanSant among others.

The first video in the series features Susan Shelton, a leading Democratic strategist who gives us an overview of how the Democrats will gain control of Texas in the upcoming elections.

High Definition Video of the candidates meetup

Audio Podcast of the Candidates meetup

Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Political Forum

Tue, Feb 26 2008 in Bastrop, 4:00 pm to 6:45 pm

Sponsored by the Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee. At First National Bank, 489 Hwy 71 W. Voters were able to come meet and hear from candidates for local, state-wide and federal offices.

BastropBuilder.com has contacted Cable Channel 10 in Bastrop and Bastrop Access TV has agreed to carry this video and the video from the Democratic meetup in Elgin from Sunday February 24. Check back on this website for dates and times.

 

 Bastrop Chamber Political Forum: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Chamber Candidate Forum audio [73:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“How to Make An Electoral Revolution”

Sponsored by Independent Texans

Sunday, June 8, 10 am to 5 pm

This event was held at the Aqua Water Coop, 415 Old Austin Highway, Bastrop, Texas Call us at 512-535-0989 or 512-657-2089 - click on any of the links below to see videos of the event, there are 21 10-minute videos in all, published to several video sharing websites such as Youtube.

12:30 Stopping Stinko Sweetheart Deals

Brian Rodgers & Paul Walhus for Stop Domain Subsidies

1 Brian Rodgers - Stop Domain Subsidies 1 of 3
YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

2 Brian Rodgers - Stop Domain Subsidies 2 of 3
YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

3 Brian Rodgers - Stop Domain Subsidies 3 of 3
YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

4 Paul Walhus - Stop Domain Subsidies 1 of 1
YouTube, Yahoo, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

1:30 Voter Contact: Where the Rubber Meets the Road!

Nancy Robbins, Ron Paul activist

5 Nancy Robbins, Phone Banking Campaigns part 1 of 4
YouTube, Yahoo, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

6 Nancy Robbins, Phone Banking Campaigns part 2 of 4
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

7 Nancy Robbins, Phone Banking Campaigns part 3 of 4
Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

8 Nancy Robbins, Phone Banking Campaigns part 4 of 4
MySpace, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

10:30 How Ron Paul Made the Revolution

Chuck Young, Ron Paul activist

9 Chuck Young talks about the Ron Paul Paul campaign 1 of 4
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

10 Chuck Young talks about the Ron Paul Paul campaign 2 of 4
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

11 Chuck Young talks about the Ron Paul Paul campaign 3 of 4
Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

12 Chuck Young talks about the Ron Paul campaign 4 of 4
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

2:30 How to Protest Perry

Merry Anne Bright & Jan Tracy, Piney Woods Alliance

3 Piney Woods 1 of 2
Yahoo, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

14 Piney Woods 2 of 2
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

2:45 Taking Power: Electoral and Electrical

David Schraub (on solar farming) & Jere Locke (on Climate 1Sky)

15 Solar Farming 1 of 3
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast
16 Solar Farming 2 of 3
Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

17 Solar Farming 3 of 3
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

8 Global Warming 1 of 4
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

19 Global Warming 2 of 4
Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

20 Global Warming 3 of 4
MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

21 Global Warming 4 of 4
Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos and Howcast

3:45 Winning Elections to Protect Your Water Rights

Marie Day, Lavaca County Taxpayers, Inc.

4:30 State Independent Convention Planning, September 6

10 Political Independence: What’s Obama, Kucinich and Paul got to do with it?!

Linda Curtis, Independent Texans

11:00 How Youth Organizes (for Arlan Foster), Arlan Foster, HD 18 Candidate

Eric Price & Clayton Scott, and other high school student activists

12:00 How Citizen’s Lobby Congress & the Texas Legislature

Ann Del Llano, Esq., Capitol City Solutions

Judith McGeary, Esq., Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

These are my links for July 27th through July 28th:

• chrisbrogan.com - one of the best social media and marketing sites on the web. It’s a must daily read if you’re a social network addict, like me.
• Social media camp at the Thistle Cafe 300 W 6th street in Austin - social media camp at the Thistle Cafe on 6th street the same day as the Mashable event.
• Austin 3.0 - If one were to look at the slew of Tech events happening this week, you?d think we were gearing up for SXSWi. Instead, it?s 104 degrees outside, and it?s just another eventful week in Texas; it?s time for our mid-summer stretching exercise.
• AgencyTool Web Design Dashboard - best web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resource I’ve every seen. Excellent! Five Stars. *****
• Web 2.0 Mashup: Best of the Internet Today -

These are my links for July 21st through July 25th:

• Ad Revenue Sharing Communities & Forums | Social Web Tools - social communitys that share revenue with their users
• Leveraging Social Media by springnet - Connie Reece and Paul Terry Walhus present “Leveraging Social Media” at SEOforSMB in Austin Texas on July 17, 2008.
• Deanna Zandt randomdeanna / Linkwad - Short-n-sweet Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and the Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. Interview at http://austincast.com/blog/
• | LivingSocial - recommended by MichelleMMM on del.icio.us
• 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing | chrisbrogan.com - 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
• How to Be Interesting | Copyblogger - Be wrong: The world is full of people trying to do the right things. It?s become so common that many of us are bored by it. We long for someone that is willing to do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, be the wrong thing

These are my links for July 13th through July 16th:

• Five Ways to Build Your SMB Via Social Media Marketing : Online Marketing for Marketers - 5 primary strategies for building small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) via social media marketing. This post is a summary of my presentation, for those that couldn?t make it to Austin.
• Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Services Portland Oregon | Anvil Media, Inc. - Search Engine Marketing for High Performance Companies Anvil Media, Inc. (Anvil) is a search engine marketing (SEM) agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) management, search engine marketing public relations (SEM PR)
• http://seesmic.com/#/video/iXR1hYyDEF/watch - boiling down the basics of SEO
• The Definition of Social Media Marketing: How to Find the Best Social Media Consultant » techipedia | tamar weinberg - The main characteristic [social media marketers] need to have is a genuine curiosity/interest in social media, particularly on how it influences human relationships and business practices.
• Search Engine Optimization for Small Business - SEO Blog: Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing :: Get Page One - And the co-founder of our humble SEO company, Brian Rutledge, will be talking about search engine optimization for small business at the SEM for SMB conference in Austin, TX. More on that later!
• Video SEO for SMB?s: What Does Standing Out Online Really Mean? - consumers typically visit an average of nearly five Web sites (4.8 actually) before deciding which attorney to select. When lawyers added video to their respective Web sites, however, this number decreased fairly substantially, to 1.8.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - seo blog aggregation. Guy Kawasaki’s alltop seo page. SEOmoz, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO Book, Search Engine Journal, Matt Cutts, SEO Noobs, Google News Inside, SEO Blackhat, SEO by the Sea, Search Engine Watch, Stepforth SEO, etc

These are my links for June 28th through July 9th:

• ContentRobot | Blogging & WordPress Experts - awesome wordpress site with plugins and themes
• FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby! - FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby!
• Josh Highland : Internet Superstar - classic social lifestream webpage, a guy who lives in Redlands, CA
• TweetDumpr - This is a hideous tool that can be used to export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file, readable by any spreadsheet application (Excel, Numbers, etc.). Exported data includes the tweet plus a timestamp of when it was sent.
• Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a Business* - In less than two years it has created the underlying structure for more than 20,000 social-networking sites–”mini-Facebooks” with an aggregate of 300 million page views per month. You’ve probably never heard of it.

Starting today, I’m going to start a series of reviews, accompanied by screencasts, of reviews of social networks, social bookmarking services and social media sites on the Spring.  You can see my initial list there which I’ll be modifying as this series goes along.

Listal is a social networking site where you can find people who share your tastes in movies, books, music or games.  Lists and collections are shared via a simple url like (in my case) http://springnet.listal.com and they give you widgets to plug in to your blog or website.

The site stands out for it’s tight integration of tagging, friends, finding others, forums and messaging.  The “explore” feature is hot, it lets you scan through reviews of movies, tv shows, books, games, dvds, and music. 

These are my links for June 16th through June 27th:

• bub.blicio.us - social networking blog, really smart content
• Summize Conversational Search - another killer app du jour for twitter, conversational search
• All I Ate Today - clever little food app somehow connected to twitter
• austinlifestyles’ bookmarks on del.icio.us -
• Derbyshire Writer?s Guild - - Crysty Shih is now heading this major fanfic site for jane Austen aficianados
• Social Media Club Austin - You’ll find a number of social media types hanging out at Cafe Caffeine as part of the Jelly! Austin co-working scene. Come join us.

These are my links for June 15th:

• Qik On IPhone: Qik Video Streaming Finally Comes to iPhone - Wow! When I was interviewing the geekalicious Cali Lewis at SXSW I asked her what she was most excited about and she started bouncing up and down and shouting to Neail. Qik! Qik! Bring me Qik. Quick!
• Summarized SEO Tips from SMX Advanced - Part 2 - Search Engine Guide Blog - The SEO panel provided a few examples of the great widgets and applications they use to make their life easier. Here are a few, including my own favorites: * SERPH: track the ?buzz? of yourself and your competitors using this handy social search
• Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk Brings Thunder to Austin ? Damon Clinkscales - @damon Fortunately, I brought my Flip Ultra and I captured 60 minutes of pure Gary for your viewing pleasure. Keeping with the tradition of WineLibrary TV, these videos are unedited.
• Not An MBA » fiercely independent - InnovationCamp #1 is two weeks from today! Being a first, there will inevitably be loose ends, chaos, and some pesky problems on the day. Without risk, though, there is no reward? @juliegomoll
• Austin Coworking - An interview with Drew Jones - LaunchPad Coworking Blog - Drew: Austin is the perfect community, and GSD&M Idea City is an awesome space for Innovation Camp. Julie and I share a GenX/Boomer fascination with the creative energy that is out there among designers young and old. June 28 @juliegomoll

These are my links for June 4th through June 12th:

• Themes - Tumble-hybrid Deuce is a cleaned up version of the original Tumble-hybrid theme. Please follow the directions outlined in the original Tumble-hybrid post to install and use this theme.
• The Life of an Internet Bedouin ? Damon Clinkscales - Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk Brings Thunder to Austin “I?ve been tracking Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV ever since the day that Dan Benjamin told me about the sale of Corkd to this sorta zany character with a wine show on the web.” - Damon Clin
• springnet > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter - dashboard, gets love, gives love, box score, links
• LaunchPad Coworking ? Coworking in Austin, Texas - Austin Launchpad coworking gets green light from the City to build. Sept 2008 is start date. @juliegomoll
• Alltop, all the top stories - Guy Kawasakis daily news aggregator

These are my links for May 27th through June 2nd:

• PR 2.0 - As much as media and blogger relations drive traffic and increase your user base, we can?t overlook the importance of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, DIGG, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Diigo, FriendFeed, Ning, Mixx, Bebo, Ge
• Uniting Austin’s Startup Community | Startup District - Austin’s startup district forming and creating a coworking space in East Austin, Texas
• One Egg, One Hundred Baskets: Social Media Leverage - Social Leveraging squeeze goodness out of the tools that are free strategy acts as platform wrangler drags big names of social media, networking and aggregation together. create one page/blog post that hits on social aggregator ften different directions.
• WiiiZZZ - What has been listened to and shared today no Twitter . . .
• Tim’s Quicktime VR Panoramas : QTVR - @timpatterson picked a digital camera, an inexpensive Fuji FinePix A205, and decided to get back to creating Quicktime VR panoramas for fun and he has a Google Map of all my QTVR locations in Austin!

These are my links for May 26th:

• Movavi Online Video Converter - Free Online Video Converter No software to install. No ads to interrupt.
• Pixel Qi - About Us - Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen was previously the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child. Notably Mary Lou invented the laptop’s sunlight-readable display
• Xo Laptop 2.0: OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y - At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. Wow! Dual touch screen!
• Tag Galaxy - Holy Cow! This is such a cool flickr visualization, a spinning globe that shows whatever tag you pick
• Internet Marketing and Social Media: Dosh Dosh - One of the best ways to promote your website or business is to work together with others . . . twitter @doshdosh
• Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO - Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It?s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo?s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and

These are my links for May 21st through May 25th:

• MediaWiki - MediaWiki - MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
• Tweet Clouds - # 78612 # add # american # amp # app # application # apps # april # archive # austin # austincast.com/blog # austintexas # belmont # best # big # bike # blog # bookmarks # broadcasting # catching # cedar # channel # chat # check # coffee # come # communit
• optimal experience - This guy has some great ideas like an “Austin startup district and a wordpress fest in the park. And he walks to Will Wynn randomly.
• End of Silence - Austin blog with a great Austin linkroll
• http://yesyes.penalicio.us/ - really inspiring “about me” page @yesyes on twitter
• Digital Voodoo — Social Media strategy and intelligence applied to marketing. - Strategy + Tactics - Dave Evans network of best-of-class partners helps define and implement new applications built around a socially-aware launch strategy that you can measure. twitter @evansdave
• Do-it-yourself SEO and SEO Project Management | SoloSEO - @mdjensen ’s seo page. Michael is from St George Utah and is an entrepreneur and twitter tool maker. SoloSEO.com CityMarketer.com AppliedContent.com TweetBeep.com LiveTwitting.com for events like SXSW and TweetAnswers.com
• Bare Feet Studios - @roxannedarling Bare Feet Studios LLC is a small, curious, tech-savvy company based in Honolulu, Hawai?i, owned by Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson. We participate in and advise on New Media and the Social Web to connect people and solve problems.

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These are my links for May 19th through May 20th:

• Disqus | Hello, springnet! - Boost your blog community by installing the DISQUS comment system Disqus makes your comments more interactive for readers and easier to manage for you ? all while connecting your community with other blogs. “no one needs you” - Leo
• Blogging 2.0 and Professional Blogging - The reality is that Web 2.0 is finally catching up to blogging. The walled gardens of singular blogs are making way to social interaction across multiple platforms. @shey thanks to tim shey for the pointer to this on his blog
• Remote Access and Desktop Control Software for Your Computer - Over 40 million devices connected worldwide for remote support, access & backup. cross platform remote access. recommended.
• The 70 coolest free applications in existence - Seopher.com - some of the best free apps and online services on the net for web developers. great list. recommended. from Steven York’s blog about making money online, blogging, marketing, seo and web development
• Read The Words - My Recordings - most text to speech is awkward, this web app is really natural sounding and lets you make recordings, save them and embed them on your website. Really cool. Recommended

These are my links for May 18th:

• how to grab all the free media publicity you could ever want. Thousands of media email addresses here at All the Secrets newsletter’s free publicity resource centre - websites that help mail out your press releases
• ShowYourself Widget - ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your
• Work Happy Now! - Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you’ll be successful.
• Web Site Design and Marketing | hosting, domain names, e-commerce, pay-per-click - You have come to the right place to learn about web site design, domain names, Internet marketing, custom programming and social media.
• Battlestar Wiki - Battlestar Wiki, An encyclopedia of the Battlestar Galactica sagas. ? 3,273 articles in English ? Warning: Spoilers are to be expected. See our Spoiler Policy for details. Ridiculously detailed and thorough!

These are my links for May 17th:

• The Most Popular Twitter Apps According to the Blogosphere - ReadWriteWeb - which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere. @steverubel This is a guest post from Anton Johansson, a business developer at the Swedish startup Twi
• Symbian World - twitter @ewanspence sybian blogs aggreggated on this site
• Miss Geeky - @mseckington on twitter and her blog Melinda Seckington on gmail, twitter, flickr, facebook, youtube, del.icio.us, etc. etc. blog has great links and possibly a Battlestar Galactica fan like me
• Twitter-peoples - welcome to my e-world, dive right in! ? Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 ? the soundtrack to the day you wish you?d had - @solbassstevethe soundtrack to the day you wish you?d had, great background sound and pretty sure it’s podsafe
• Free Wordpress Themes, Free Wordpress Templates, View & Download - free WordPress theme called ?AdsPress?. The theme is ready to use with Google Adsense and the advertisement blocks are perfectly placed (tested & tried) for giving you the maximum revenue out of your websites.

These are my links for May 13th through May 16th:

• Jennifer Slegg - Search Engine Marketing Consultant - @jenstar jennifer offers tips on SEO marketing and I’m trying to get her to return my follow on twitter
• Whatever - nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - Spoonfed Web Tutorials - NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS?s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, a
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter - In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple
• Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer
• 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed - free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneur
• Twitter Friend Adder Firefox Plugin - You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating ?Grab this Users Friends? hit that and the plugin should start working.
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing - strategy, twitter addict, cms maven, conference hopper
• Create your own crowds :: Crowdstatus.com - Crowdstatus is made up of twitter crowds, each crowd contains people and each twitter person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.
• TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice - send messages to twitter with your voice on your cell phone. Sweet.

These are my links for May 7th through May 10th:

• Home | premium wordPress theme, wordpress cms, custom wordpress template, - wordpress cms theme
• Texas Startup Blog - My advice is to become a ?maker?, become a ?builder? or if you can?t make or build find a partner who can. Build something, show it to customers, get some traction and then raise money.
• TwitterSnooze! v0.13 - Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” Twitter friends.
• Searchme Visual Search - Beta - rev. 1.339 - visual search . . . what folks have been waiting for in search
• We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar - exploration of human emotion

These are my links for May 5th through May 6th:

• Push My Follow » A podcast about social media and other things - @pushmyfollow Michael Gaines @istarman - Joe Cascio @joec0914 - Eric Rice @spin - Christine Cavalier @purplecar - Sarah Vela @orchid8 - Ann Boccio @banannie7 podcast about twitter and socialnets … recommended
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes - Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.
• Pixel Currents » Portfolio - Pixel Currents. It?s a WordPress theme adapted for content management. The power of WordPress is how flexible it is. It can be used for projects from a simple blog to a full-fledged business site, even for e-commerce.
• Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan - best twitter search that I’ve seen so far.
• Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

These are my links for April 27th through May 4th:

• optimal experience - John Erik Metcalf is a 24 year old entrepreneur living in Austin. What is he interested in? social media, coworking, identity and reputation systems, social entrepreneurship, semantics, mobile communication, and much more. Cool dude. Worthwhile blog.
• TwitterLocal - Tweets within 20 miles of Austin, Texas - TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area.
• @heidimiller Love client meetings on site! - @heidimiller great podcasting site
• Twister Grabber :: Firefox Add-ons - adds twitter friends en mass
• Tantek’s Thoughts ? 2008 April - on open flow - the book I’m currently reading is titled “Flow”, thanks to my new super friend Tara Brown, who somehow knew exactly where my head was at and gave it to me to read just last week. It’s a really good sequel in many ways to David Allen’s Getting Things Done
• Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails - Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
• Ayman Hourieh’s Blog - thoughts on Open Source software, Computer Science, and various bits from my life and the web.
• springnet : twitter100 - What 100 of my twitter friends are saying
• Twitter Spy - fascinating but not totally useful, just added filtering to this twitter real time display

These are my links for April 23rd through April 26th:

• earlysound’s bookmarks on del.icio.us - Veronica Belmonts bookmarks
• Wp-plugin - Seesmic - The Seesmic-wp-plugin allows you to: * Record one or more Seesmic video’s to a post. * Accept authenticated or anonymous video comments. * Moderate video comments exactly like text comments.
• Loic Le Meur Blog: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog - The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it’s not rea
• tantek wiki / CommunicationProtocols - communication protocols for the new age from tantek celik “‘m capturing and collecting some notes on my experiences with optimal human to human communication protocols and mediums from my perspective, i.e. when others are trying to communicate with me, wh
• Blogger mentality at SXSW - Los Angeles Times - In the halls of the Austin Convention Center, you couldn’t take three steps without tripping over a blogger, “vlogger,” podcaster or online TV show host of some kind. There was so much recording, photo snapping and keyboard tapping that anyone who wasn’t
• Twapper Groups - create your own twitter groups using twitter names and the plus sign