Hello.

Every edition of Roo's letter since #17 has had a two word title. #48 was sent out blank, but for the record should have been 'Small thoughts'. So now you know.

You might have noticed that I took a break from the newsletter last week, giving myself some time to relax on holiday. I did keep half an eye on the web though, and continued to collect things that looked interesting. I deleted more things than I kept, and I enjoyed doing that. Who knows, maybe Roo’s Letter will become a weekly thing in the future . I’ll see how it goes this week and will let you know what I think on Friday. Hope you're having as much fun as I am. 

“You can’t blame users for becoming hooting primates when a giant spaceship dumps a billion dollars out of its money hole.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/facebook-and-instagram-when-your-favorite-app-sells-out.html
See also:
Instaport (http://instaport.me/)
InstaBackup (http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/04/09/instabackup-get-your-images-out-of-instagram/)
Instarchive (http://instarchive.recollect.com/)
Parallel-ogram (http://straup.github.com/parallel-ogram/)
Eye Em (http://www.eyeem.com/)

Ricky Gervais: “I see offence as the collateral damage of free speech.”
http://nickyclark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ricky-gervais-talks-about-derek-karl.html
(Confession: I watched Derek. I liked it. I even cried. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derek/)

Text from Dog
http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
(Reminds me of the early days of http://louisvsrick.com/)

“There’s no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. My pencils are sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark”
(Ze Frank is back!)
http://ashow.zefrank.com/episodes/1

Opting out of behavioral advertising
(I did this because I got freaked out by very clearly retargeted adverts. Urgh. Thanks to everyone who suggested these links.)
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
(An more extreme solution, via @alby)
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

“This is an e-mail lottery. One person a day wins a chance to write to the growing list of subscribers. It could be you. ”
(Of course I signed up.)
http://thelistserve.com/

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds