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    Applied Clique Finding: Discovering More About Your Twitter Network

    Abstract for a talk I’m giving tomorrow some time between 1300h and 1500h at the University of Ottawa. Let me know if you want to attend (slides will be up later). Follower / Following networks are essentially meaningless on Twitter due to the prevalence of spam. However by creating the graphs of conversation networks it…

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    Girl Geek Dinner

    Last night I went to my first Girl Geek Dinner. It was awesome. I don’t think I’d even realized how male-dominated my existence was, until I was in a room full of women (and maybe 2 guys). Yes, there was some talk of handbags, but everyone seemed interested in everyone else, there was so much…

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    Cliques

    If you’re not a computer scientist, probably you think of cliques like in the movie Mean Girls. A bunch of people who talk the same and look the same and act the same… To computer scientists (well, not all of them – I’m more inclined to think about Mean Girls to be honest) cliques are…

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    List Visualizations

    So these have been on a bit of a back burner lately, with the end of the semester and associated craziness. However I had a suggestion from Treena that’s been sitting in my inbox for a while. She suggested I try @erinblaskie‘s lists, here’s hoping they show more of what I think this visualization will…

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07

    After relaxing weekend I'm excited to get on with stuff – is that weird? # Why is everyone playing Scamville and other stupid games and inviting me? Makes me angry and I despise you a little, so's you know. Grr. # Anybody want to go to X'tian indoctrination event and spy on them? Then report…

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    The Refactoring

    Lately I’ve been working on something that I’m calling The Refactoring. Not that long ago, I wrote about my Twitter Conversation Networks (read the rationale behind them) and I was blown away by the popularity and the amazing feedback that I got. So I tried to incorporate it all in. Here’s the thing, though, it…

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    Tweet Cloud

    Lots of people seemed to be making these the other day, they’re kinda cute. You can get one here if you want: warning it uses OAuth and automatically sends out a Tweet, which I hate. I also heard something about unsolicited DM’s, but if you’re concerned about that all you need to do after you’ve…

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    Do We Need Traditional Resumes?

    I just ordered some business cards. They don’t have email addresses on them, I’m trying this first 50 as an experiment in that. What they do have is a link to my website, from which you can find my LinkedIn and Brazen Careerist profiles – which should tell you anything you want to know about…

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    It’s Hard to Sell a Newspaper

    There are two things that are almost guaranteed to bring out the giant ***** in me. One is people who accost me in the street trying to convert me to one religion or another (it’s amazing none of them have punched me for suggesting they’re mentally ill). The other thing is sales calls. I think…

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