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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14Monday morning inspiration from @zenhabits http://zenhabits.net/2009/12/20-motivation-questions/ # After more great advice from @tgrevatt – scheduling at 80% of capacity – http://bit.ly/4M4d2b # TravelPod is looking for a Javascript programmer: http://bit.ly/62pESf know anyone who'd be good at it? Pass it on! # Coding, but out the window I can see the snow. Suddenly it's really winter!…
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Applied Clique Finding: Discovering More About Your Twitter Network
→: Applied Clique Finding: Discovering More About Your Twitter NetworkAbstract 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
→: Girl Geek DinnerLast 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
→: CliquesIf 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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07
→: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07After 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…