MAKE Magazine is one of the coolest magazines arround. It’s about hackers and makers, people that DO stuff.

Today, I received an email alert from them that is an exelent example on how one can use the Internet to support and add value to a printed magazine:

Dear Panayotis Vryonis,

The “How to Build a Power Tap” page in MAKE 05, page 112, contains an error that could cause an unsafe wiring situation. Before attempting this project, please read the corrections posted at http://makezine.com/05/quickanddirty.

PLEASE DO NOT BUILD THE POWER TAP AS SHOWN IN THE ILLUSTRATION.

The illustration shows a dual plug receptacle, which, when wired improperly, can cause a short circuit. Do not attach the wires from the extension cord to the screws on the same side of the receptacle, because it will create a short circuit.

Once again, before attempting this project, please read the corrections posted at http://makezine.com/05/quickanddirty.

Additionally, we have corrected the illustration on the digital edition, which you have free access to as a subscriber.

Thank you for your time,

The MAKE Team
editor@makezine.com

Instead of waiting for the next issue to fix this error, they just sent an email to all (I guess) subscribers. Isn’t that smart, cool, useful?

BTW, if you do not want to subscribe, but are interested in buying an issue or two, you can do so at amazon.

• Building a Web App on a Budget.
  Remember boo.com? [...] This isn’t the case any more.
  (tags: business startup)
• Home | Songbirdnest.com
  Looks like iTunes in black.. but it’s XUL (mozila) based. Too bad it will only run on Windows (for now).
  (tags: media mozilla)

• MacOS Articles
  A good number of useful articles.
  (tags: osx)
• SONR: statistics for podcasting
  podcast tracking and stats. I’m not sure, but could be a good idea for browser-based listeners.
  (tags: podcasting metrics player)

Google launched Gmail for your domain. It may be a great service.

Will they allow IMAP access too? There should be a way to export mails if this is a “busness service”, no?

• Volvo’s Internet Campaign in 3-D
  Great idea.
  (tags: automobile internet marketing campaign)
• What do you do with your online community when things get hot?
  Loved their approach.
  (tags: social media)
• Jugglezine - The Fog of Blogs
  A sharp look into the blogosphere.
  (tags: metablogging)

After I wrote my del.icio.us as feed manager post, I realized that this is not a totaly new idea. It is what Dave Winer calls (dynamic) “Reading Lists”.

Here are some interesting articles on reading lists, opml, etc:

• Raw » del.icio.us Reading Lists
• Use del.icio.us to build & share Reading Lists?
• Reading Lists: where are you?

Any other good resources/hacks on this?

• Google techtalks - Google Video
  100% interesting.
  (tags: google videocast)

Feedburner, released today the FeedFlare API. It is actually an API that allows individual develpoers to create services that “adds flare” to a feed. This extra “flare” could be either an action (like “tag this post”) or additional information or metadata (like “Alexa Ranking”). They even have 101 suggestions, you could implement.

This is great news. I did not have time to look at the details, but I’m sure some really nice ideas will come out of it.

However, I still have not seen what I would like to see. Feedburner’s scope is on “one feed at a time”. They let you do great things, but with only one feed each time. What I would like to see is some kind of multi-feed mixing. Not there -yet?

But, I have to be fair. Feedburner is doing a great job!

• Media InfoTalk: Future of Media with Jim Steyer & Common Sense Media
  PodTech.net: InfoTalk
  (tags: media podcast_selections education)
• Not Funny
  Responsible approach to (small) mistake.
  (tags: feedburner)

InsideGoogle reports that � Internet Explorer 7 Breaks AdSense. The most interesting part is here:

There is one possibility: that IE7’s new security features block AdSense by decision, some security default that blocks certain types of JavaScript

This would be really funny (and a HUGE mistake from Microsoft). Remember when web developers would add a “IE required” link in their pages, and were willing to break compatibility just to make their life easier? I expect to see a lot of “Too Cool for IE” banners if site owners are not able to cash out IE pageviews…