Twitter

What are you doing? That's the question. The whole idea behind Twitter is that you can say what your doing and if someone wants to know, they can take a look. Kind of like away messages in AIM, except for your whole life. The guys over at Commoncraft have put together a really good video explaining "Twitter in Plain English."

Twitter in plain english

If you're on a Mac check out either the full featured awesome Twitterific ($15), or the barebones, stripped down, widget app, Twitgit (free!) and you can update your Twitter feed in seconds just as if you were updating your aim status, it's that easy.

NPR Podcasts!

National Public Radio (NPR), has decided to offer every show they air in podcast form! This is awesome because what if, per sé, you want to listen to Car Talk, but you are just too busy on the weekends?

NPR logo

Well, now you can just have your favorite shows automatically downloaded to your computer with iTunes or any other audio-RSS reader. Then you can listen to the Car Talk brothers whenever you get some extra time to laugh! Here's a link to all of the NPR shows, check 'em out!