Tag Twitter

WaPo Slams Down on Tweets from Journalists, Editors

On having a public profile, identity associated to a job.

Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything – including photographs or video – that could be perceived as reflecting political racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility

Complete story here.

♣ Looking for a T-Shirt?

Please a geek and find your favourite a perfect T-shirt and have some fun with nerdy pickup lines in Twitter format.

♣ Geek Monday

tj on twitter

#!/bin/sh
while [ "$CONSCIOUS" = "yes" ];
do
slamHeadIntoWall();
done
.

♣ Nostalgia

Merlin Mann on twitter

Thinking I sorta liked it when you had to learn perl, apache, and html to smear the web with dumbassery. It was a modest barrier to entry.

Visualization Graphs for Online Stat Nerds

I’m a geek, I love numbers. And graphs. Little is needed to make an online nerd happy, especially when it involves twitter and last.fm.

Two additional small webapps can make a kid an online geek happy.

LastGraph

LastGraph visualizes your music data, submitted to your last.fm account, in a unique way. Inspired by Lee Byron’s last.fm listening’s history graph the service pulls all (ALL!) your data from audioscrobbler and outputs everything in an awesome StreamGraph. Click image for larger graph (Original graph is 13000px wide).

Twitter StreamGraphs

What would a life be without the same, but for twitter? Exactly.

Worthless.

Twitter StreamGraphs does kinda same… but obviously _is_ restricted by the twitter API restrictions. And can’t be favourited in twitter either. Surprisingly the status of the service does not graph Failwhales or Failbirds.

Twitterati Are Slow

It was obvious it would happen. Actually I wrote about this issue in January 2007. Today the biggest twitter whores start discovering the issue: twitter _is_ made for spammers. Hence why we need twerpscan or similar services.

But the real matter here is not the great platform for spammers created by twitter, but rather the recluse the twitterati live in. Maybe, some day the top Web2.0 posterboys will get some rationalism in their bones too. Hopefully even while they still are hyped by their latest discovery.

I’m A Geek, I Love Numbers

Compulsory to the heart and soul of every nerd geek is the love for numbers. One of the few services I actually do pay for and even regularly check is Last.fm. Every Monday, sometimes even on Sunday night, I check what I listened most to in the preceding week and also check my all time stats. With more than 80.000 tracks scrobbled to my profile, time after time all time stats like these make me grin.

Stats for my listening habits

Stats for my listening habits

But there is better.

Stats for my listening habits

And to continue the number game, even though I still am not sure whether to be proud or not of my Twitter hate/love relationship, here’s some tweetscan stuff. From my active and my inactive twitter account. Before you ask why I have 2 accounts, I’ll explain you the stuff you aren’t interested in anyway: my first account was a residue of the personal blogging area. A twitter account in the category of noise. Loaded with lots of personal internet drama memories. I wanted to and had to move on some day. My actual account still is noise, just much less.
But the important thing about both graphs is that I actually might have to listen to all my friends and try to get a regular life schedule. Not have the period from 0:00 to 04:00AM be my most active period of the day.

Stats for my twittering habitsStats for my twittering habits

The best thing about twitter in my case is when I started tweeting.

The history of the inactive twitter account

November 2006. :-)

♣ The Apple vs. Windows Burden

tweaking someones Windows laptop. God it’s painful to use, it’s really hard after 12 mths of Apple serendipity

Duncan Riley on 02.05.2008.

Logging in to Windows already hurts after only 3 months of Apple and applications such as Twitterific, Coversutra and all the other bling for Mac. Let’s forget the super work orientated applications.

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