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Andrew Careaga's Higher-Ed Marketing blog and Guy Kawasaki's Signum sine tinnitu blog.

Andrew is the director of marketing at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He seems to be doing a good job of aggregating higher-ed marketing trends and reports. I'm new to his blog so I can't comment yet on the long term value of this blog. Will watch it for a while and let you know...

Similarly, I'm new to the whole Guy Kawasaki cult of personality but his credentials are superalitve. Author of "The Art of the Start", guy was an early Apple marketing executive who has gone on to start software companies and he is now CEO of an angel venture capital firm called Garage. Learn more about Guy here.

It was Andrew's mention of Guy's post on what students should learn this year that sparked my interest in both blogs and their respective bloggers.

I've been using SharpReader as my RSS aggregator for a while now but I've decided to scrap it in favor of Google Lab's Reader. SharpReader ran in the system tray and seemed to slow down my machine's boot time significantly. I suspect it was also a drain on system resources as it monitored the feeds I'd subscribed to on a continual basis. Why not use Google's processor instead of my own?

My Aunt Beth, a software instructor, master weaver, and contra dance caller, turned me on to Woot, a website that sells one item per day. I've become hooked on checking in with the site to see the current day's item.