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After encouraging feedback about WatrCoolr on Hacker News and Proggit, I created Hacker WatrCoolr, which is a hacker oriented version of the original site.

What does that mean?  A lot of little tweaks to make the site more amenable to hackers.  And one big change: the general interest feeds are replaced with hacker interest feeds on Hacker WatrCoolr.  Here are the current ones:

• Hacker News of course (stories that reach the top)
• Techmeme (stories that reach the top)
• RSSmeme, English 12 hours (stories that reach the top)
• reddit, programming (stories that reach the top)
• Digg popular: software, programming, design, tech news & gadgets, aggregated
• Slashdot: developers, books, ask, bsd & it, aggregated
• Yahoo! Technology News Most Emailed (stories that reach the top)
• del.icio.us popular: programming, webdesign, startups, design, tools, software, web2.0, css, reference & development, aggregated
• ReadBurner (stories that reach the top)
  

(And no xkcd.)

These feeds are subject to change based on their continued usefulness and your feedback.  I've been tweaking them for a week or so (as you may guess from reading them).

I am new to Twitter.  Well, not new to the concept, but I hadn't really used it until yesterday.  This video of Michael Arrington at Startup School inspired me to get started. To paraphrase, he said every developer and their startup should be Twittering, if only to contribute something to the startup community.  As this is one of my primary goals, I was sold.

So I set up a twitter feed under the username yegg.   If you are on twitter, you might want to check it out.  If not, you can still follow it on the sidebar of this blog and on my homepage.  Enjoy!

I've started a personal blog a number of times over the years, but have always abandoned it shortly after its start, followed by its timely extraction from the Internet.  So why is this one any different?

Well, let's just say I learned from my past mistakes and I am approaching personal blogging different this time around.  I won't get into all the details, which have to do with my (admittedly eccentric) personality, goals and expectations.  Just be rest assured this blog should remain up indefinitely.

So what can you expect?

• Generally short posts.  If I want to write something longer, I'll probably do an article.
• A lot of questions for which I don't have answers.
• Not a lot of regurgitation of stuff on other blogs and articles.  I hope none!
• Stuff related to Internet startups, but not exclusively.