Google Reader clips catch up

Latest of my Google Reader starred items:

• Avinash Kaushik has evolved from a 'Taco Bell gournet' since starting working for Google
• He says Customers & Competitors should be used to embarrass HiPPOs (highest paid person’s) on web analytics
• Being a good designer means being an 'omnivore'
• Freezing chips breaks encryption
• Wikipedia and similar sites rely on tiny numbers of free editors
• The Economist notes 'witty' bloggers on DirectGov and eGov
• More daft web ideas from politicians, this time lil'Lord Falconer
• NYT: the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls
• Anti-gay Christians sell books with fellatio
• Charlie Booker had a run-in with an 80 yo on a plane; she survived
  
• Obama doesn't need 'big money' because the Web's proving a fundraising cash cow
• The Australian apology is about intergenerational responsibility
• Robert Fisk wasn't that bovvered by a mysterious impersonator
  
• Internet Explorer is as structurally wonky as the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Celebs defend Heath Ledger
• Undetectable HIV load means non-infectious
• Simon Dickson loved BarCamp and says 'just do it'
• More churn in online advertising models; the end of networks?
  
• Google Sightseeing now on iPhones
• NT Post (Murdoch) prefers Obama to NY Senator Clinton
• Stephen Fry's podcasts
• Stephen Fry salivates on groovy camera
• Web Power growing in Saudi
• Shit loads of people watch Obama's straight-to-camera State Of The Union response
• Digg gets editors, maybe
• Shock! Fred Thompson's web campaign wasn't half-bad
• Zooming in by satellite on poor bald guys now possible
  
• Who are the Libertarians behind Facebook?
• The Global Village is a reality online
• What are the millionaire Googlers up to?
• Hollywood is toxic
• Online ad campaigns getting better in Primaries
• Candidate websites aren't main go-to source for info
  
• Jeff Jarvis ties online metrics to Pres candidate success
  
• UK Government online marketing led by offline experts: shock
• Privacy International says move to Greece
• Pew Research nails the numbers on Web's political influence
• Northamptonshire gets eDemocracy
• Obama online driving Obama voting numbers
• Crafts, of all things, reinvigorated by the Web
• Best info filtering tips