February 2012
15 posts
LockhartSteele.com Tumblr Outpost: An Oral-ish... →
lock:
Yesterday morning, a Twitterbot tweeted at me that Sunday marked my five-year anniversary on Twitter. Seems I signed up for the service on February 25, 2007.
Why did I sign up for Twitter on that day? So I could “live-Tweet” the occasion for Defamer, Gawker Media’s Hollywood blog, edited…
“All you need for a bubble is a steady stream of suckers.”
– Scripting News: iPhones and unprotected sex
“The first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the...”
– Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We must recover the mindset where a service used by 10,000 users, or 1,000...”
– » 24 February 2012, baked by Ben Ward @ The Pastry Box Project
“Here’s the thing: Twitter is part of the “real world.” The Internet is part of...”
– Twitter, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Dreams of Flatland | metaLAB (at) Harvard
“He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was...”
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com
“Quite simply, being a data scientist at Twitter is not just about data but about...”
– Kurt Smith’s answer to If I want to do Data Science, would LinkedIn or Twitter be a better place to start work? - Quora
“Apple has just revealed that Twitter is also going to be baked into the latest...”
– As OS X Mountain Lion Proves, Twitter Is Apple’s Social Network | TechCrunch
“Here’s a compositional secret. It’s so obvious and simple,...”
– Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America’s #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
“The tweet from Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village...”
– Urgent tweet in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing
“I don’t think I’ve met anyone as humble or as hard working as Jeremy...”
– (1) Ryan Glasgow’s answer to What’s it like to play on the same basketball team as Jeremy Lin? - Quora
“Silicon Valley once was home to scientists and engineers — people who wanted to...”
– Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive » Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool » Real Dan Lyons Web Site
“The cable companies are losing subscribers every quarter. If they want to...”
– Boxee clashes with cable companies over encryption — Online Video News
“We can wait until the world ends, and if we need to, we will apologize. In the...”
– Chevy Response to Ford on Silverado 2012 Super Bowl Ad
“Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing...”
– Zuckerberg: The Hacker Way | Om Malik
January 2012
3 posts
“There were 3.9 million tweets that day, Wednesday, about SOPA and PIPA. When...”
– Twitter’s Dick Costolo Says Twitter’s Future Is YOU! (Dive Into Media) - Liz Gannes - Dive Into Media - AllThingsD
“We are the first generation of the Age of Information. This rightfully should...”
– Best_Kept_Secret comments on This is why SOPA might be the best thing ever…
Why I Hate Android
I hate Android for the same reason that Severus Snape hates Harry Potter — the very sight reminds me of something so beautiful, that was taken from me. Except it’s worse. It’s as if Harry Potter has grown up to become Voldemort.
- parislemon
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December 2011
1 post
On design and data
Felton says the main lesson he learned from the experience of designing and iterating Timeline is that “Photoshop lies.” “You can come into a meeting with a very beautiful comp and it’s like, ‘Oh yes, we should do it that way,’” he says. “But you’re never going to know if you can do it that way until you pump in the real data and live with it for days or weeks.”
October 2011
5 posts
“The world has these judgements about what they don’t know because they...”
– Ashton Kutcher
Justin.tv - Startup School - Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at the start...”
– Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, ‘You’re Headed For A One-Term Presidency’
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of...”
– Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says | ajc.com
What Does 'Communiting' Mean??? | Guest Columnists... →
collective consciousness was a concept…
now…
it’s on your smartphone and it’s called twitter…
twitter is a physical representation of collective consciousness where you can tap into the consciousness of millions…
“We are a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, predictive modelers, data...”
– How Obama’s data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected - CNN.com
So cool…
September 2011
2 posts
betashop: Press & The Twitter Effect →
betashop:
Twitter traffic to Fab.com jumped from 2% of total on a normal day to 10.4%. It’s clear that Twitter has become the major news distribution medium on the planet, period. Interesting what that means for journalism. News organizations write the news, but Twitter distributes it.
August 2011
3 posts
Spread of Earthquake-Related Tweets
Below is a visual of the Tweets from VA and Washington, DC one minute after the August 23 #earthquake.
This is an official Twitter visualization we created to see how far and fast a tweet can travel. This is part of what we do on Twitter’s analytics team. Join us: http://twitter.com/jobs .
“…I made a copy of the check. Then found what I thought to be the mailing...”
– You Sold Your Company, What Did You Buy First? Here’s What I Did. - Jason Hirschhorn - Voices - AllThingsD
Cool story bro!
“She and I went to a half dozen therapists over the years. At each initial...”
– it’s a mystery
This is fucked up…
July 2011
6 posts
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate...”
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Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ - Jul. 20, 2011
…so true.
“If the initial link was shared on twitter, and you see 60-70% direct clicks,...”
– bitly blog - Where does your traffic really come from?
“I routinely find myself astonished at how people think the online world should...”
– Hacker News | Facebook is a damn business, Google is competition. The fact that this ad was b…
The hell indeed…
I Eat Ewoks: What Netflix Isn't Saying →
ahknight:
Having a ton of DVD viewers that are not using WI artificially inflated their WI subscriber numbers and almost invalidated a content contract. The only way to lower that number is to remove their access and only let people that want WI subscribe to it and pay into the service. So now WI isn’t a bundled service but one you ask for and pay for. This way, Netflix lowers their perceived WI...
“Since Saturday, Mr. Lopez’s story has played out across the local and national...”
– Sporting-Goods Vendors to Ease Yankee Fan’s Debts - NYTimes.com
“I got involved about 11 years ago when the US navy was using Vieques Island in...”
– Wow…
Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker - tech - 04 July 2011 - New Scientist
June 2011
3 posts
“I apologize for those who feel offended,” Mr. Grisanti said, adding, “I cannot...”
– Gay Marriage Approved by New York Senate - NYTimes.com
“There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United...”
– My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant - NYTimes.com
“Puerto Ricans hold American citizenship and can serve in the military, but the...”
– Obama Vows Support for Puerto Rico’s Decision on Statehood - NYTimes.com
May 2011
2 posts
“The visualizations he presented Wednesday were created by Miguel Rios, a...”
– This Is What a Sabbatical at Twitter Looks Like - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
““Ese era precisamente el secreto”, recuerda Miguel Ríos....”
– En las @tripas de Twitter · ELPAÍS.com
February 2011
1 post
Look at your pie chart... now back to me.
Now back at your chart… now back to me.
Look, it’s a properly labeled bar chart. No unnecessary color-coding or huge piece of pie representing “other”.
Now I have a post to refer people to when they ask me why do I hate pie charts.
(hat tip to @eagereyes : http://blog.kosara.net/post/3475132202/what-a-terrible-chart-in-the-atlantic-the-labels )
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
“Having been in the business for as long as I have and seeing things rise, I...”
– Twitter, After Number of Users Surges, Turns to Ads - NYTimes.com
“my one regret with facebook is poking. poking is creepy and weird and i know...”
– snl you are fantastic sometimes. (via alicehaefdreams)
February 2010
1 post
April 2009
1 post
Consejitos Twitteros para las #justas
Si eres usuario de Twitter y vas para las justas, usa las ventajas que este servicio te ofrece para comunicarte con twittericans que estén en el lugar, o simplemente para ver lo que otros hablan del evento *slash* jangueo. Es simple, solo agrega el “tag” “#justas” en tu mensaje o tweet. A continuación les dejo varios mensajes de ejemplo para que tengan una idea mas clara...
January 2009
1 post
Testing
Hello World!