The top stories of June 2012 (according to my Twitter friends)

Below are the 18 links I shared in June 2012 that got at least 50 clicks on Twitter.

1. "WHY SMART PEOPLE ARE STUPID" (348)
2. "Focus is scary. It means not hedging your bets. It means going all-in. If you’re not scared, you’re not focused." (222)
3. Marketing made of WIN (216)
4. Facebook Just Changed Your Email Without Asking—Here's How to Fix It (201)
5. Video: Why Your Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad (177)
6. Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome (172)
7. What People Really Do When They're 'Working From Home' (151)
8. How I manage 40 people remotely (127)
9. FACEBOOK KNOWS: Who wants to get fired, who's hungover, who's on drugs, who has a new phone number (98)
10. For my part, I stand with the Oreos (86)
11. Irony (81)
12. Why Your Next iPhone Should Be Prepaid (80) 
13. The Facebook/Google war won't be the News Feed vs. Google+ but Facebook Camera vs. Project Glass (78)
14. I'm offended at the Internet's general lack of Back To The Future expertise. This never should have got past edit phase (78)
15. Teaching the Security Mindset (64)
16. the recruiter honeypot (64)
17. How to Talk to Human Beings (62)
18. The best graphical representation of sports stats you'll see today (55)

I use BufferApp to track these stats. You can follow me on Twitter at @jaygarmon.

The 5 best links I shared in April 2012

Less marketing douchebaggery, more tanks! [1659 clicks]

"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."  [361 clicks]

Help Locus Digitally Preserve Their Huge Cache of Science Fiction and Fantasy Treasures [329 clicks]

Secrets of the Most Productive People I Know  [278 clicks]

"On gun control, Americans have become more conservative; on gay marriage, they have become more liberal." [154 clicks]

'Medieval mysticism explained with lolcats and action figures' ... +19 more must-read links

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1. Medieval mysticism explained with lolcats and action figures
2. How the Republican Congress will abandon Tea Party ideas and legislate toward the center
3. Jon Stewart to Reddit: you don't matter
4. NASA Once Again Auctioning Off Patents Your Tax Dollars Paid For
5. Blekko, the "Slashtag" search engine is slow, cumbersome, and just plain broken
6. 15+ Google Chrome extensions for better privacy control
7. Win Free Comfy Cow Ice Cream for a Year
8. Larry And Sergey Wanted Steve Jobs To Be Google's First CEO
9. Pushing back on mediocre professors
10. Points of control = Rents
11. Google Suggest Venn Diagrams
12. Reminder: Despite What You May Have Heard, Happy Birthday Should Be In The Public Domain
13. Turns Out The Evil Halloween Candy Poisoners Was Just FUD That Got You To Buy Prepackaged Candy
14. Our Government Can’t Prevent A Digital 9-11: Entrepreneurs Need To Step In
15. What You Should Know
16. One in Five Facebook Employees Has No Imagination Whatsoever
17. Read John Scalzi's Election-Themed Short Story...Free!
18. The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 014): Interview with Paul Levinson + What are your favorite zombie books, movies or comics and why
19. Google's 2006 NetScape Moment Recalled
20. What comes after Facebook

'Three Unorthodox Ways Obama Can Fix The Economy Even With A Republican Congress' ... +11 more must-read links

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1. Three Unorthodox Ways Obama Can Fix The Economy—Even With A Republican Congress
2. The most dangerous phrase in data security: ‘It can’t happen to me’
3. Archive Of Geocities Released As A 1TB Torrent
4. Dear Entrepreneur: Think Cash, Not Ideas
5. Twitter moods can predict the stock market
6. New privacy czar might have Google's hardest job
7. Win A Trip To Napa For Your Team, Courtesy Of HP
8. Damn Good Reminder: If You Run A Blog, Register For DMCA Protections
9. Parents Television Council Accused Of Dumping Petitions, Just Focused On Cash
10. It’s Kinda Rough For MySpace Over on Quora
11. Friday YouTube: Big Bang Theory - Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
12. Using Firesheep as a hacking tool is illegal in the US, UK, and most of the world

'Google Is Now Providing Servants to Its Employees' ... +12 more must-read links

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1. Google Is Now Providing Servants to Its Employees
2. Verizon Agrees to Pay Treasury $25 Million to Settle Mystery Fees
3. 57 Things I've Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies
4. Facebook Launches ‘Friendship Pages’ To Document Relationships With Your BFFs
5. How I Became a PC: Five Steps from Mac to Microsoft
6. Boba Fett's Invoice for Jabba the Hutt
7. Syfy cancels 'Caprica'
8. See New Tron Legacy Scenes In Daft Punk's Video 'Derezzed'
9. The Most Influential Thing a Company can Do to Increase Customer Advocacy
10. Venk Diagram
11. Kobo e-book reader gets newspaper and magazine content and subscriptions
12. Searching your way to the ballot box
13. Looks Like BoingBoing Got Hacked (NSFW)

'Hyping Cyberwar To Better Spy On You' ... +16 more must-read links

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1. How The Defense Department And NSA Is Hyping Cyberwar To Better Spy On You
2. With Their Carrier-Crippling SIM, Can Apple Do What Google Chickened Out Of?
3. Christopher Nolan reveals title of third Batman film and that ‘it won’t be the Riddler’
4. Quantum computing for dummies
5. Idiocy auto-hacks Twitter accounts on public Wi-Fi, warns the owners about Firesheep
6. Yet Another Reminder That You Don't Own Your Ebooks: B&N Nook Deletes Files, Blames User
7. Nordstrom's Employee Handbook — short and sweet
8. Wikileaks and Anonymous
9. Why Doc Brown is the real villain of Back To The Future
10. BitDefender safego protects you from Facebook dangers
11. Everything that's wrong with steampunk (especially if you take it seriously)
12. IMAGES: Michelle Sciuto’s Victorian Batgirls
13. City Paper Mocks Competitors For 'Policies' Over Stewart/Colbert Rallies
14. Why Most Facebook Customization is Wasted Effort
15. The True Cost Of Social Media
16. How Trademark Law Has Turned From A Consumer Protection Law, Into A Weapon To Hinder Competition
17. The 3 causes of polarized politics -- and how to fix 2 of them

'The Revolution Will Be Distributed' ... +18 more must-read links

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1. The Revolution Will Be Distributed: Wikileaks, Anonymous And How Little The Old Guard Realizes What's Going On 
2. So When Does Apple Do Away With Hard Drives?
3. Video: Spaceport America Inaugurated By Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise
4. A Sure Sign of the Apocalypse: Sears Zombies 
5. Implanted obsolescence
6. X-Ray Scanner Vans Not Just Being Sold To Law Enforcement
7. Oh Look, It Appears Music Video Games Were A Bit Of A Fad Too
8. The meaning of a death in combat
9. The Tea “Party” is more like a small gathering…of rich people.
10. Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court
11. 5 Reasons Lucas Should Film a New Star Wars Trilogy
12. Sci-Fi's Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction
13. catrambo: E-publishing and Business Models 
14. Donate to a monkeypunk anthology, raise money for clean water
15. Ben Kenobi, Private Eye
16. Digg Faces Accusations Of Gaming Itself
17. Audience as Currency
18. Can Charity Work With A For-Profit Motive?
19. Small Batch, Hand Crafted Outbound Marketing Works

'Lucasfilm Denies New Star Wars Trilogy Is in the Works' ... +18 more must-read links

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1. Update: Lucasfilm Denies New Star Wars Trilogy Is in the Works
2. Defining Military Science Fiction
3. Is the universe a hologram?
4. US Lost The Codes For Nuclear Launch For Months
5. When Your CEO Suggests Moving In Response To Privacy Questions, Time For A New CEO
6. Internet privacy Venn diagram
7. The Real Tragedy of RapLeaf for Web Surfers
8. Even If Solar Grows 30X, It Will Only Be 4% Of America’s Power Capacity
9. The Truth: Why iPhone Users Will Ditch AT&T and Run to Verizon
10. Fantasy Magazine to Relaunch in March 2011 with a New Look, a New Approach, and a New Editor
11. Pay Yourself First
12. Wi-Fi Direct poised to usurp Bluetooth for device-to-device communication
13. Rumours of the novel’s death, etc etc
14. Kindle To Let You Lend Books, Just Like A Real Book... Except Not
15. The Color Nook Could Be The Tablet Tipping Point
16. Beaming to the Cloud All the Mess That Is Our Digital Life
17. xkcd: Constructive
18. Idoru: manufactured pop music approaches apogee
19. Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative

'Wet moon would make a great launchpad' and 9 more must-read links

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1. Wet moon would make a great launchpad
2. Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google
3. Supreme Court Chief Justice Admits He Doesn't Read Online EULAs Or Other 'Fine Print'
4. If Google TV Has To Pay To Make Hulu Available To Viewers, Will Mozilla Have To Pay To Access Hulu Via Firefox?
5. The Future Of TV Is HTML
6. Four-legged bomb detectors still top dog
7. Movie Description FAIL
8. Expand the Shelf Life of Free
9. Why Direct Mail Can't Help Your Business Grow
10. Backup For Cloud Apps

'Comic Book 'Pirated' On 4Chan, Author Joins Discussion... Watches Sales Soar' and 19 more must-read links

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1. Comic Book 'Pirated' On 4Chan, Author Joins Discussion... Watches Sales Soar
2. Get Lamp Filmmaker Scolds DVD Rippers... For Doing A Bad Job With The Rip
3. Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale
4. Give Me One Good Reason Why I Should Read Your Favorite Science Fiction Novel
5. Ra Ra Wrong. How Facebook’s Cheerleaders Are Blowing Smoke
6. Does Anyone Bookmark Anymore?
7. Rethinking reproductive restrictions 
8. FaceTime for Mac – a serious threat for your Apple ID
9. Diminished Reality: Impressive Video Manipulation In Real-Time (Video)
10. The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
11. Aol Mail Goes Down. No One Notices. 
12. A new thesis of genre
13. When A Humor Site Understands The Implications Of Abundance Better Than The 'Experts'...
14. Can You Build A Startup Anywhere? Why I Moved Backupify To Boston
15. Long Live Your Facebook Photos (for better, or for worse…)
16. This is Demo Slam
17. Traders Convicted For Figuring Out Auto Trading Algorithm; How Is That Illegal?
18. Facebook Stops Posting Photo Memories Of Your Ex
19. Google chosen to digitize Dead Sea Scrolls
20. Marvel Superheroes Re-Imagined in the World of TRON!