Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion shows how you can  Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader.  In his article he explains how many under-utilized featrues in Google’s Reader product can help you sift through today’s information overload.  Google Reader is - in my opinion - the best RSS reader I have used over the past 4 years.  If you’re not yet using RSS, I would certainly suggest giving Reader a try.

Open Source Living is a great place to find some of the web’s best open source software.  There is a lot of really high quality open source (aka free) software on the web these days.  If there is a software package you’ve been thinking of purchasing, I’m sure you will find a great free replacement at this site.

If your Flex projects use a crossdomain.xml security policy file, the Adobe Developer Center has a great series of articles around the Security changes in the new Flash Player 9 Update 3 (9.0.115.0). I’m surprised I have not seen more posts in the Flex community about these changes. We have already been affected by these changes a number of times when trying to access media on Amazon’s S3 storage service due to an incorrect content-type header. All cross domain policy files must have a content type of text/* (any text type), application/xml or application/xhtml+xml. There are a number of other changes that you should be aware of, and the DevCenter article discusses them all.

Zen Master of the CSS Zen Garden, Dave Shea, will now be joining Derek Featherstone as a speaker at the next meeting of the Better Web Posse in Victoria.

The evening will begin with Derek talking about “Accessible mapping with Google Maps” and then Dave will end with “Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Web Design”.

Please take a moment to help us prepare for a sane event, and sign up to RSVP. Again the event details are:

MONDAY, December 10 | 7:00 pm
The Sticky Wicket, Maple Room (map)

Derek Featherstone a WaSP committee member and and usability consultant with FurtherAhead in Ottawa, will be speaking at the next meeting of the Better Web Posse in Victoria. The event details are:

MONDAY, December 10 | 7:00 pm
The Sticky Wicket, Maple Room (map)

Derek is also one of the organizers of the Web Directions North conference that will be held in Vancouver this January 28th to February 2nd. WDN has a great lineup this year, and if you live in the Pacific Northwest, this will be the premier web design/development event of the year!