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Google Reader shuts down on July 1, and as a die-hard fan, I am going to miss it.

While I’m busy exporting my feed list and re-establishing my RSS reading elsewhere, I’m reminded that I often used the starring function to call out posts of note. Of course, the truth is that I rarely returned to my starred items, and with minimal social network tie-ins, those favorited posts never got much exposure.

So I’m resurfacing them here for posterity–fully, more or less, despite the fact that I have a lot of links from 2009 and earlier that make no sense to me now, or that just aren’t interesting anymore. For one reason or another, they were interesting then, and they deserve to be archived. And, naturally, some of my favorite blogs over the six-plus years I’ve been living in Reader don’t seem to have been starred along the way, like Alice and Kev, which will keep you riveted if you read it chronologically.

Regardless. From items I liked to items I wanted to revisit later (and likely never did), herewith, my Google Reader faves archive, in reverse chronological order, with occasional (present-day, in parentheses) annotations.

• You’re a Suspect, Tristan Louis, tnl.net
• Photo of the original Sesame Street cast, kottke.org
• EFF: Who Has Your Back? felixsalmon.tumblr.com
• How I Keep Up, Andre Torrez, torrez.org
• Clean My Mac 2
• Android Under New Google, Marco Arment, marco.org
• In Praise of Quora’s Weekly Email Newsletter, Jason Kottke, kottke.org (I feel the same way)
• The Near Past, David Jacobs, hello.typepad.com (R.I.P. Brad Graham)
• Right Here Where We Stand, Music 2012: A Year in a Day, Glenn McDonald, furia.com
• I’m Never Going to Be Able to Unhear This, sippey.com (damn you, Sippey, it’s true, and I hate it)
• Buy Apple On January 18, Joe Springer, Seeking Alpha (which turned out to be good advice,  so long as you sold within two business days)
• 50% Bonus on American Express Membership Rewards Transfers to Starwood, View from the Wing (I didn’t do it)
• Ernie Anderson outtakes, lonelysandwich.com
• It’s the Weekend, hello.typepad.com
• Drunk Jeff Goldblum, kottke.org (I’m less than a year back and confirming Jason Kottke is truly the best blogger in history)
• ABBYY Business Card Reader
• Use TextExpander to sanitize formatted text, Justin Blanton, hypertext.net
• President Obama participates in first Presidential AMA on Reddit, oreilly.com
• “Everyone wants to control the plumbing,” felixsalmon.tumblr.com
• Paradise, Matt Jacobs, capndesign.com
• Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies
• Turn your Twitter stream into your friends’ linkblog, Jason Kottke, kottke.org
• Make Your Twitter Stream More Interesting with the Stellar Tweetbot, Mike Davidson, mikeindustries.com
• Kingdom Rush for the iPhone, kottke.org (him again)
• Top IamA, via waxy.org (found one year ago this week; I still visit this regularly)
• Ex-Googlers Launch Avocado, An App For Couples… Techcrunch via Techmeme (downloaded, never used)
• 5 Tips From A Delta Reservation Agent, Chris Morran, Consumerist
• The quickest way to get things done and make change, Seth Godin
• RIP MCA, David Jacobs, hello.typepad.com
• Might Upgrade to the Paid Version Someday, marco.org
• Lighting Science Definity – A19 Omni V2 – Dimmable – 2700K, via marco.org (haven’t bought it)
• Apple’s Post-PC World, Andy Ihnatko via Daring Fireball
• Primer, kottke.org (haven’t watched it)
• Seattle Shows, Matthew Baldwin, defectiveyeti.com
• “So cool,” MG Siegler
• My Paleo Media Diet, Jim Stogdill, oreilly.com
• Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up, emptyage.com
• 645 West End Avenue, streeteasy.com
• SXSW Interactive 2012: As Crowd Swells, New Technologies Emerge for Intimate Relationships, Jeremiah Owyang
• The Rise of the Indie Brand, Mitch Joel, twistimage.com
• Photoshop Touch for iPad, Daring Fireball
• [Joel Johnson, “Where I Work Now,” currently offline (but appears in my feed)]
• The Most Lucrative Membership Rewards Points Earning Amex Ups its Signup Bonus — And What It Means for an Overall Credit Card Strategy, View from the Wing
• Subtle “paper” wallpaper images for the iPhone, hypertext.net
• Strategy: 6 Guiding Principles, Branding Strategy Insider
• This tweet, from an account since suspended: 
  The wife said to me last night “I think we’d have less arguments if you weren’t so pedantic”. I said “Don’t you mean ‘fewer’?”
• Play Me Later, notes.torrez.org
• Twelve! lonelysandwich.com
• An Interview with Jason Kottke, notes.torrez.org (this list is very meta now)
• Agenda app
• Kingdom Rush for iPad, kottke.org
• Claims about Potato Chips, Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (This one I reread. “We found that a bag of potato chips costs 4 cents more per ounce for every additional negative word on the bag”)
• Garret Vreeland on 12 years of blogging, rc3.org
• Pretty Lights, kottke.org
• Favorite Albums of 2011, Matthew Baldwin, defectiveyeti.com
• I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — AMA, Reddit
• The New Commerce, GigaOm
• Speed Notes (automated iPhone text files on Dropbox), Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org
• THIS IS GOOD, Nathan Jones, twitter.com
• Little Printer publishes tiny personal newspapers, kottke.org
• Linen backgrounds for iPhone and iPad, hypertext.net
• Remember the Milk, Now Integrated With Siri, Daring Fireball
• Ready for T-Commerce? No one else is either, finds study, Internet Retailing
• The Rands Test, Rands in Repose
• Commerce as content, shopping through art, Dan Frommer, SplatF
• Two devices to help unclutter your work space, GigaOm
• SendTab: a great simple app for managing screens, Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (belatedly realizing Matt’s blog is a nice productivity tool roundup)
•  “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.” ScottPorad.com
• Silicon Valley Vets Aim to Bring Personal Financial Services to the Masses, All Things D
• IFTTT, via waxy.org
• Before the Internet…
• The Kid Should See This, kottke.org (that guy again?)
• Twitter by the numbers, GigaOm
• Sunday Morning Observation on Being a Grown-Up, Scott Porad
• What Does a CEO Coach Do?, avc.com
• There Will Be No Files in the Cloud, avc.com
• Humble Indie Bundle, via waxy.com (funny: when I starred it, they were on bundle #3; as I write this, bundle #6 is active)
• Ten Mandates Of Account Management, Brand Strategy Insider
• 5 Delicious Ways to Use a Store-Bought Rotisserie Chicken, Matt Moore, artofmanliness.com (yeah, I subscribe to a feed called Art of Manliness. So?)
• Waiting for the fear to subside, Seth Godin
• The Lean Startup, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture
• Complete List of Incubators and Accelerators (like Y Combinator), via Hacker News
• The Color Of Your Website Has A Huge Impact On What People Buy, Adam Toren, Bu
  siness Insider
• [“Talking Funny,” YouTube video, removed, via waxy.org]
• PetFlow Raises $10 Million as Cash Pours Into Online Pet Market, All Things D
• Every successful case is a special case, Seth Godin
• How to Find the Cheapest Airfares, Upgrade Them, and Make Air Travel Easy, Gary Leff, View from the Wing (I spend way more time reading Gary’s travel hacking tips than I do actually traveling)
• New Rules, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture
• The professional’s platform, Seth Godin
• Jogging With The New F***ed Up Album, Dave Bry, The Awl
• The Financial Times Moves to a Web App for iOS, Daring Fireball
• Amazing 50% Bonus on American Express Membership Rewards Transfers to British Airways, View from the Wing
• “Shine,” a new weather app for the iPhone, hypertext.net (I still have this, although I now rely mostly on Yahoo Weather and Dark Sky)
• 5 Can’t Miss Financial Sites, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture (I spent a lot of time on the Big Picture, and I don’t think any of these pointers impacted my financial well-being)
• Hashify, via waxy.org
• Now Playing, Nathan Jones via Twitter
• Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down, Marco Arment, marco.org (see: Google Reader)
• Recipe for Baked WordPress, carpeaqua.com (bookmarked April 2011. In related news, this site still runs Movable Type)
• Hipmunk, Flight Search iPhone App, Daring Fireball
• PicaPic
• Introducing Stellar, kottke.org
• Quote, 37 Signals
• The steady-savings retirement plan, Felix Salmon, reuters.com
• [a blip.tv compilation of cinema “Nooooo!” moments]
• SXSW torrents
• “Find me stuff I’m interested in,” Dave Winer, Scripting News
• Millions of Hovels, Tim Bray
• Innovation with Solitaire?! Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (I must have played 10,000 games of solitaire on this same app and had a lengthy blog post drafted but never published it)
• How to get the best hotel deals, View from the Wing
• Reading Is Fundamental, Anil Dash, dashes.com
• Improving Conversion After the Add-To-Cart, Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• The Colonial Vibe Of Destroyer’s ‘Kaputt’, Alex Balk, The Awl
• Best Songs of 2010, Said the Gramophone
• Keeping Score on Apple Finance Predictions, Daring Fireball
• Study: Teams work best when members are physically close together, Clive Thompson, collisiondetection.net
• come break bread with us at the Old Timers Ball, a.wholelottanothing.org (I did this, and it was wonderful)
• Daytum
• Tin, Zan McQuade, thatcupoftea.com
• How to Manage a Tech Career, Loren Davie, Antipatter
• Start registeri.ng, .NG domains go on sale, Hacker News
• Tell him to jump higher. Jami Attenberg, whatever-whenever.net
• [several more View from the Wing bonus mileage offers and ideas]
• Introducing Word Lens
• Lastfm Best of 2010
• do you hear that? it’s the sound of powerpoint… sippey.com
• Playlist, Zipped, via choiresicha.com
• List of social skills a solid career requires, Penelope Trunk
• Slap, Daring Fireball
• What is Amazon’s approach to product development and product management?
• The book of the year, Seth Godin
• The Outlook: Pants, Valet (I don’t think I bought any pants)
• Gridulator
• I Need More Ears, Scott Porad
• Video of 14 year old Jimmy Page in 1957: I watched “It…, Mike Davidson, mikeindustries.com
• Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong!!!!
• Ping, Andre Torrez, notes.torrez.org
• Health Month, the game
• Airport Express and Airfoil, avc.com
• Solipskier
• How to Pitch a Product, avc.com
• Elements for iOS
• Spanfeller Media Group Names SoftBank’s Perlis Chairman
• My Favorite Money Man
  ager, avc.com
• Devour
• Achievement Unlocked 2
• The Incident
• Osmos for iPhone, via waxy.org (great game)
• CSS3 Generator, Simple Bits
• The Books’ new album The Way Out, Neven Mrgan’s Tumbl
• [Album of the Summer 1, formerly on whatilearnd.tumblr.com]
• Venture Capitalist’s New Frontier: Where Cellphones Meet Retailing, Spencer E. Ante, All Things D
• [several websites that no longer exist]
• [several pages of iPhone wallpapers]
• 9 Unconventional Ways To Grow Your Business, Karin Price Mueller, Business Insider
• A sad truth about most traditional b2b marketing, Seth Godin
• How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen, Derek Sivers
• Some Day We’ll Shut Up About Robyn but Not Today, Choire Sicha, The Awl
• [aside: OMG I’m only halfway done. We’re back to this day in 2010. My archives go to 2007]
• Advanced Media Relations For Startups: How to Be Newsworthy, Danny Wong, ReadWrite
• messy and manic in flat-front khakis, sippey.com
• Music: Bodies of Water – Ever With Us; Treats, Sleigh Bells
• The Health Graph, Anil Dash
• [several links suppressed and/or deleted out of disinterest]
• Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets, Avinash Kaushik, Occam’s Razor
• Here’s How To Get Google To Love You In Just 4 Months, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Business Insider
• What is an online service you really need but cannot find? Reddit
• What’s your favorite software that no one else knows about? Reddit
• How To Self Promote For More Success, pfadvice.com
• How to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment: 10 No-Brainers, Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• Analyzing Financial Statements, avc.com
• Stickiness is bad for business, Chris Dixon
• Hot trend: Part-time entrepreneurs, Matt Linderman, Signal vs. Noise
• [several personal and dead links redacted]
• List of Social Media Management Systems (SMMS), Jeremiah Owyang
• The iPhone blows, kottke.org
• Meet Gatsby, Mike Melanson, ReadWrite
• [Caterina Fake’s post on Hunch’s $12 million investment round, since deleted]
• BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DISH FOR, Ditherati
• But it’s better than TV, Seth Godin
• [True Gotham’s MLS announcement, since deleted]
• The rise of antisocial media, via randomwalks
• ShrinkIt
• My recommended kid games, Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (I need a 2013 version of this)
• Break Bread for Brad, a.wholelottanothing.org
• Realtime LiveJournal -> Buzz, Brad Fitzpatrick, LiveJournal
• Explicit vs Implicit Social Nets, avc.com
• Affiliate infuriation, Marco Arment, marco.org
• [a variety of additional productivity links from Matt Haughey and Andre Torrez]
• The NYC tech scene is exploding, Chris Dixon
• The zen humidifier, Clive Thompson, collision-detection.net (still want)
• 12 Albums, Steven Garrity, Acts of Volition
• Gahd. Choire Sicha (indeed)
• Phish – Possum (2009/12/04 at Madison Square Garden), marco.org
• [several more dead links]
• Seven years gone, Seth Godin
• After Branding, Tim Bray
• I Wrote Your 2010 Career Resolutions for You, Jobacle
• Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features, via Techmeme
• Holiday Cheer Spreads for E-Commerce Giants, Ben Worthen, All Things D
• Tyler Cowen on Happiness, rc3.org
• My year in cities 2009, kottke.org (note to Jason: I still do this)
• if you don’t have anything nice to say… sippey.com
• 5 Million NYC Property Records Available Via Startup’s API, ReadWrite
• Creating a true impression, rc3.org
• [several links over the past year or so to Steve Rubel posts that are no longer there]
• Anatomy of a bad search result, Chris Dixon
• [several more waxy.org linkblog links]
• Provocations for 2010, Faris Yakob, Talent Imitates, Genius Steals
• Time of the season… Kleptones blog
• the tail-eating snake of the web, sippey.com
• Hudson Union Society upcoming events
• Tweeteorites, Daring Fireball
• Seeking Alpha Bags $7 Million In Funding, Alaska Miller, Business Insider
• Fotonauts Raises $1.1 Million, Shifts Fotopedia From Desktop To Web, Leena Rao, Techcrunch
• There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.), Derek Sivers
• How to take your site to the next level, Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World
• Getting meta, Seth Godin
• Why Digital Agencies Aren’t Ready To Lead (And Why Traditional Agencies Shouldn’t Either), Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation
• British People Still Love The Strokes, Alex Balk, The Awl
• Which is more useful? Google’s links or the actual home page? Jason Fried, Signal vs. Noise
• Twitter Lists Provide More Opportunity for Online Visibility, Denise Wakeman
• Who is advising executives on customer experience? Victor Lombardi, Noise Between Stations
• Chad Ochocinco Experience, Hello Typepad
• Removing The Most Painful Question Potential Clients Always Ask, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation
• Rare Hour-Long Alfred Hitchcock Interview, kottke.org
• From sketch to photo instantly (this is insanely awesome), kottke.org
• Canabalt
• Enjoying business travel, Gulliver, Economist.com
• Javascript Nintendo Emulator, kottke.org
• How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
• Pitchfork’s songs of the decade, kottke.org
• I.T. Organizations Considered Harmful, Loren Davie, Antipatter
• unicode heaven, sippey.com
• One in Six Consumers Act on Spam, Tamara Gielen, Be Relevant!
• Gauging Your Distraction, nytimes.com
• Some Interesting Retail Email Marketing Stats, Tamara Gielen, Be Relevant!
• App Store WTF of the Week (App Store Link), Daring Fireball
• The Science of Persuasion, kottke.org
• The Summer Build, bobulate.com (broken link)
• Alan Richman Names Top 25 Pizzas in the U.S., via randomwalks
• On Set: A First Look at US Royalty’s “Every Summer” Video, Valet
• 4Questions for: Passion Pit, Valet (sadly, I have no familiarity with either US Roy
  alty or Passion Pit)
• 279 Days to Overnight Success
• “We’re being held up,” Sportsfilter
• Disaggregating fare aggregators 2009: Which airfare comparison sites are the best? Mark Ashley, Upgrade: Travel Better
• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, Clay Shirky
• Old Growth Media and the Future of News, Steven Johnson
• Google Reader hacks, kottke.org (sigh)
• Mentions of my own blog post on the pre-Web 2.0 era
• Study: Hearing damage occurs after more than 5 minutes of full-volume listening on iPod earbuds, Clive Thompson, collision-detection.net
• Play the original Oregon Trail game online, hypertext.net (back before we all downloaded it onto our iPhones)
• Timing is Everything, Sportsfilter
• Fight Fatigue at Work: Detoxify (I assume for my toxic lunch mix at the time of Hill Country Chicken and chocolate chip cookies)
• Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
• Tips for Making Your Baby’s First Airplane Trip a Success (Hi Nate!)
• The Wholesale Sedation of America’s Youth, Follow Me Here
• Slacker Works Hard Bringing Music to Your iPhone, Wired
• FuckedCompany Founder to Launch “Kaplan Index” Site, Owen Thomas, Gawker
• Fix Tabbing in Firefox on Mac, Oliver Willis
• Heavy Rotation: 2008, Zan McQuade
• Tower defense game for the iPhone, kottke.org
• Frumination
• I made this. you play this. we are enemies
• How Strong Is Your Value Proposition? Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• A Year of Parking Tickets, nytimes.com
• Companies Are Not Ready, Willing And Able For Marketing 2.0, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Persuasion
• iPhone Game: Trism, peterme.com
• Then/Now, a Series by David W. Dunlap, nytimes.com
• OpenTable Reservations Come To The iPhone, Techcrunch (y’know, I’m not even sure I have this app)
• Connect with Others, Jeremiah Owyang
• High quality YouTube video hack, kottke.org
• [a couple of posts that didn’t load properly, like this one, and one or two that were particularly boring and dated]
• sweetie the band, torrez.org
• Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone, Signal vs. Noise (this *still* bothers me)
• Six Principles for Making New Things, Paul Graham
• 5 Great (And Free) Games You’re Not Playing Now, Jane Pinckard, GigaOm
• Bloxorz
• bert and ernie : robert deniro joe pesci – from casino, kottke.org
• Living online, with web apps, Matthew Haughey, Fortuitous
• LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover, Guy Kawasaki (and a rather inauspicious start to my list)