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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22Paper submitted! Yay! Number 83. Time for bed 🙂 # What is this family day nonsense? I want to go shopping! # Slept through kickboxing :,( also friend married swamp creature yesteray, and I totally forgot that was happening. # Taken to consuming protein shakes on the basis they're more efficient than food. Programmer mentality…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14Another year has gone by and I still don't know what this superbowl thing is. Luckily, now it's over people will stop trying to explain it. # Wondering – when Facebook builds a fully integrated email client, will it have IMAP? One less reason to log into the site… # This morning seemed like a…
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Levels of Engagement on Twitter
→: Levels of Engagement on TwitterMy co-supervisor, Michael Weiss, came up with this diagram expressing the interactions we have with people on Twitter. Direct messaging is the most intimate form of communication, which we cannot track through the API without authentication (and then only for an individual user) as it is private. We have engagement through conversation and retweets, passive…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07February is career month for @uOttawaWISE! Upcoming we have @launchitright @thecodefactory and @mypromotion. Excited? I am! # Loving what I can see of this guy Edward Marcotte's visualizations, but can't find them anywhere! Any leads? http://bit.ly/c7p73x # How to hate the ipad – a breakdown of the backlash – http://bit.ly/961HSK /cc @gailcarmichael # Reading "Living…
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Science Teacher Talk: Information -> Meaning
→: Science Teacher Talk: Information -> MeaningInitial draft of a talk I’m supposed to be giving in February. Information -> Meaning Before the printing press, literacy rates were really low, and the average book was the bible. This was all people had by way of information. The printing press caused a revolution. 100 years later, humans had more information than they…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01I'm very pink today. Wearing my most awesome pink snowboots and pink spring jacket. Outfit ftw! # IBM Case Study Competition RSVP form: http://bit.ly/6Bcirr – sign up! Will be awesome! Spots limited! please RT! # Dear uOttawa wifi. Your function is to provide internet access. You are failing miserably at this. Yours, frustrated student trying…
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A Random Collection of Cool / Useful Things I Found on the Internet
→: A Random Collection of Cool / Useful Things I Found on the InternetIn the last couple of days, I’ve found a bunch of things that are really cool, so I’m going to collect them here, in no particular order. Incidentally, I found all of them via Twitter. Information gathering ftw! Awesome pictures of Mars in the Huffington Post. Honestly, I don’t get too excited about space stuff…