Log in to your Instapaper Account screen and you’ll find the ability to link your Instapaper reading queue to your Readability account.

As a side note, last week I mentioned how the sites I most want to support are usually not the sites I’m throwing into Readability. But after using Readability for the past few days, I learned that not just sites you read using Readability are given a donation, also the sites which you simply bookmark for reading later. So now, if I read an article in the browser, I just bookmark it and it gets earmarked.

Commodore 64 → iPhone 4.

Well, it certainly skips a few, but that’s not the point. (Via Pat.)

Many thanks to the guys at HiTask for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. HiTask is a free, web-based, task-management app.

There are many task management apps out there, and I believe that these unique and diverse apps are being built because people themselves are unique and diverse. Each of us has our own way of dealing with our responsibilities and our own expressions of productivity. We’re not looking for the best app out there, but rather the best app for us.

There is no cost to sign up for HiTask, and it has many features and options. It will let you work with team members, it has an in-line calendar view (both high-level and granular), it helps you with time tracking and reporting, lets you create tasks via email, and more.

Media Temple just upgraded their (dv) hosting service with new hardware, updated software stacks, and better options for scaling and upgrading your hosting once you’re on a (dv) plan.

I migrated shawnblanc.net to a (dv) server in September and have been very pleased with its performance. If you’re looking to set up a hosting account with Media Temple then use this link and I’ll get a small kickback to help cover my own hosting costs.

New features for those with a premium subscription to Simplenote: (a) Sync via Dropbox if you prefer, and (b) you can now turn a note into a legit to-do list on the iOS versions of the app. The list feature is super clever and well implemented.

And the price of the premium subscription has also gone up slightly. It used to be $12/year, but now it’s $20 (or just $2 a month). I’ve been a premium member since day one, and will happily pay the slightly higher cost when it’s time to renew. Simplenote is by far one of my most-used apps.

Here are Marco’s speculations on where the MacBook Pro lineup is going. I think he spot on, especially since his guesses are based on the current MacBook Air.

These next three paragraphs I wrote back in October when the new MacBook Airs were introduced. They were part of a larger article I drafted after the press release where Apple introduced the Airs, and demoed Lion and the Mac App Store. I never finished the piece and it wasn’t ever published. But, here’s the bit I wrote about the MacBook Airs and how they are the laptops which lead the way for the whole lineup:

The Air is Apple’s the secret forerunner laptop. Over the past three years it has subtly led the way in many areas of Apple’s laptop design.

When the Air was introduced in 2008 it was the first laptop to sport the unibody design, the black plastic keyboard, and the wider multi-touch trackpad. And it was the first laptop with an SSD drive as an upgradeable option when purchasing on Apple’s website.

Now, it’s the first laptop with flash storage as the only option. My guess is that flash storage will be the default storage option in the entire MacBook Pro lineup by Summer 2011. I think the performance improvements that flash storage brings to an OS are likely a huge factors for an optimal running environment to OS X 10.7.

The transcript from Steve Jobs’ commencement address at the Stanford Graduation of 2005. (Via Marco.)

C.J. Chilvers on why he switched from digital tools back to paper ones for managing his task list. It’s interesting because much of C.J.’s change in workflow was based on the findings in Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows, which hits conclusions about how computers and the internet are re-wiring our brains. In short, C.J.’s point is that keeping a paper-based to-do list actually leads to better concentration and focus by sheer virtue of the fact that it’s on paper rather than a monitor.

Clay Shirky:

The economics of content creation are in fact fairly simple. The two critical questions are “Does the support come from the reader, or from an advertiser, patron, or the creator?” and “Is the support mandatory or voluntary?”

This article was written in 2003, but it is still just as relevant today as it was then. Because 8 years later there is still no single answer. There is no clear way forward for the independent writer, designer, developer, podcaster, et al. to generate income from their work.

It’s an entrepreneurial conundrum.

Technology has created a platform for people who may have never been creative professionals to now become so. The Internet has allowed would-be writers or designers to grow into actual writers and designers. But to sustain their work, many of these curative professionals are now forced to also become entrepreneurs as they seek out ways to keep the content flowing and the lights on all at the same time.

I’ve been saying all day how sites I enjoy the most and most want to support are the sites I usually read on their website. But Justin Blanton has been piping them through Readability for years. Why? For consistency and efficiency in his reading:

For the last couple of years I’ve routed everything through Readability, no matter how visually pleasing I find the site, or how easy it is to read its text. (I stuck with Readability even after Instapaper offered a similar bookmarklet.) I really don’t care how good your site looks, etc. — I want a consistent reading experience no matter what I’m reading (mainly because, over time, it makes my reading more efficient).