Day-late Mother’s day video: The following link to an extremely funny Mother’s Day greeting is somewhat significant as it is the first time in history that my wife has ever e-mailed me any digital media.

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Magazine bootleg site? Dylan Stableford at MediaBistro’s FishBowlNY is pointing (warning: the “illustration” Dylan uses on his post may be, well, somewhat inappropriate for work if your monitor — like mine — is clearly visible to anyone walking by) to what he thinks “has to be a completely illegal” website called SpotBit.com that allows one to download PDFs of current magazines. While the site features lots of consumer and business titles (169 in all), the top-ten downloads are all exactly what you’d expect. Dylan is running a contest on how long before the site is taken down. My guess: today. I’m guessing a bit-torrent approach would last longer. (I’ll end with  another warning: Don’t download anything from that site — you don’t know where that file has been.)

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Spies using RSS: FeedDemon creator (and Nashvillian) Nick Bradbury discovered via an article in the morning’s Washington Post that the NSA uses FeedDemon (along with about 500 other software programs).

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Random thought: While the immigration issue is quite important, I’m sure many Americans this morning are more concerned with what the impact of the President’s speech will be on their TiVo settings.

Lies, damn lies and Guy Kawaski: Dave Winer asks “the obvious” question: “When is Guy Kawasaki going to list the ten biggest lies…of Guy Kawasaki? Here’s my suggestion for one of them: 1. I don’t give a shitake when people make fun of my weblog, as long as they link to it.

Update: Guy says (see comments) it’s no lie. Which inspires me to consider creating my own list: “Top ten ways to get Guy Kawasaki to comment on your weblog.” (For the record, I am a Guy Kawasaki fan.)

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Did I miss something? This morning, Media Daily News included the following news brief:

“RODALE INC., PUBLISHER OF MAGAZINES including Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, and Prevention, is planning to expand its brands with several new lines of products–including more videos and books and an expanded online presence.

While I don’t follow consumer magazine transactions, I think I would have noticed if Hearst sold one of its flagship brands, Good Housekeeping. So, that newsbrief does not carry the rexblog seal of approval yet.

Update: As the reference to Good Housekeeping has now been removed, it has my seal of approval. (Oh, and here is a screen grab of the earlier version.)

Growing up: I’ve said for a long, long time, that PaidContent.org will be the first business-to-business media empire built from the ground-up on a blogging platform. Today, Rafat & Co. move one step closer by announcing a new interim COO, director and advisor, Jeffrey Stern. And Rafat is even going to open an actual office. It may just be a “two-desk” space, but it has a really swell-sounding address, Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Congratualations.

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Have you still not set up a newsreader? If you’re like the group of IT people I spoke to the other night, I guess not. Here is a free story from today’s Wall Street Journal on the topic. I’ve also added it to a page I set up a long time ago that I send folks to when I say, “Hey you should set up a newsreader!“

(via: Steve Rubel)

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