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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-29

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-15

    • Really like @jyhsu's post on gender in computing (and programming as a superpower!) http://dld.bz/Zhds #
    • Hanging out with high school girls telling them how awesome it is to be an engineer @google! (@ Conrad Grebel College) http://4sq.com/lwDxhD #
    • This is pretty cool – The first Zombie-Proof House: j.mp/kmVkFT /via @rands #
    • Hiding from inbox, thinking to write notes on paper to send later. Colleague points out I can scan notes to other people's email – GENIUS! #
    • If you're loving today's @google doodles, you can see all 16 at http://goo.gl/bufCi /via @marissamayer #
    • Some great tips on creating awesome slides for a great presentation – http://bit.ly/jlCqod /via @sidneyeve #
    • Puzzle event! (@ University of Waterloo) http://4sq.com/kky0wB #
    • Interesting article on creatives and eccentricity – http://bit.ly/l2Jlwx /via @the99percent @jeffreyftang @DyanaValentine #
    • HBR on peace time vs war time CEOs, which are you? http://dld.bz/ZeyH #
    • This is fascinating – visualizing the power of a single tweet – how the news of OBL spread on twitter – http://dld.bz/Ze9U #
    • This is pretty awesome – book xylophone – http://dld.bz/ZeBQ /via @MaryamAshoori #
    • First @kwawesomefound event is TONIGHT! I AM SO EXCITED! Who will leave with $1000? Come to the Little Bean at 7 and find out! #
    • Also, today's @google doodle is extremely awesome (and animated!). SWE on doodles might be the BEST job possible – http://www.google.com/ #
    • LOVE this on "learning" goals rather than "achieving" them, problem is not lack of willpower but lack of knowledge – http://onforb.es/mTqTmQ #
    • Progress on patent!! Maybe in 18 months to 2 years I'll be able to tell y'all what it's for 😀 #
    • This is hilarious – "I refuse to argue with my unborn child via Facebook" http://goo.gl/5dm1j /via @bl #
    • A google engineer on interviewing – some useful advice here I think – http://dld.bz/ZfbS #
    • Chasing out of memory errors is like whackamole. Not fun, frustrating, and no sense of achievement when you "win". Just curse own stupidity. #
    • Well that was officially AWESOME!!!!!!! Thanks to everyone who came out for @kwawesomefound !!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the secret gardener!!!! #
    • Struggling with procrastination? Great article about why we procrastinate, it's not 'cos we're lazy – http://dld.bz/ZfjS /via @jeffclark #
    • First GGD KW May 24th, @ruthm will be speaking @google are hosting! More info: http://goo.gl/sXuJ4 #
    • Could we redesign email to set better social norms? Interesting idea to reduce out-of-hours email – http://dld.bz/Zhdh #
    • Sheryl Sandberg is so awesome – http://goo.gl/gXLo8 #
    • This is seriously cool – marble run around the room – http://dld.bz/ZhfN /via @cuwise #
    • .@michael_nielsen came to @google today to talk about open science – was awesome, thanks! 🙂 #
    • Excited to be here for the launch of canwit. Lots of great tech women in #kwawesome !! #
    • Charming – "The insides of things are beautiful. Let's see what they look like." http://wondermark.com/tink8/ /via @lccarson #
    • Love the 5% creativity challenge – can you build 2 hours a week of thinking in to the next 30 days? http://bit.ly/m0cvtB /via @anuraagc #
    • Long week? Hopefully this will pick you up – Life is a Marathon on Mission Amy KR (missamykr) – http://goo.gl/qNvJF #
    • Non-eng colleague and I discuss someone's weird behavior. "oh, they're an engineer". Me: "I'm an engineer". "yes but you shouldn't be!" #
    • Myself and @rjfioravanti are quoted in this post on @google waterloo – http://dld.bz/ZPDr #

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  • Part 8: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?

    Part 8: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?

    I’m working on a paper on topical communities, and as part of that I’ve come back to this dataset to explore the social network that emerges through @ mentions.

    To start with, I looked at the social network that emerges when we look at the people on the list.

    Future of the News Network
    Future of the News Network

    This network is pretty densely connected, with the exception of two users on the list. You can see their nodes floating away in the image below:

    Future of the News Network - Outliers
    Future of the News Network – Outliers

    The network graph that emerges from all the tweets connected is really busy, but may show who the most engaged users are.

    Future of the News Network - Full
    Future of the News Network – Full

    There’s just too much information here, so I started filtering it by eliminating nodes that had fewer than a specified minimum number of connections. Because of the dataset available, non-news-influencer nodes cannot be connected to each other. Thus, I was specifying how many influencers needed to mention a user for them to make it into the graph.

    Future of the News Network - Minimum 2
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 2

    Setting the minimum to two dramatically reduces the size of the graph. Many of the nodes remaining are also well known, for example @jack and @alyssa_milano.

    Future of the News Network - Minimum 3
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 3

    We can also see popular websites, like @techcrunch and @boingboing as well as @google (not surprising given how often google showed up in the earlier visualizations of tweet content.

    Future of the News Network - Minimum 4
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 4
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 5
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 5
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 6
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 6
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 7
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 7
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 8
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 8
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 9
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 9
    Future of the News Network - Minimum 10
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 10

    I find the graphs for minimum 8+ fascinating – I think they start to show who influences the influencers.

    Future of the News Network - Minimum 11
    Future of the News Network – Minimum 11

    Eventually, of course, we get back to our original graph.

     

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08

    • Poor @douglasgresham is struggling to find me a birthday gift. Partly my fault, I don't want much and what I do I've bought before he could! #
    • Canadians, I normally don't have an opinion about your politics, but please vote. We're luckier than we appreciate to live in a democracy. #
    • Why women in CS matter, and the comfort of feeling like you belong (I also styled miniskirts) – http://bit.ly/k1UHHb /via @ggdworldwide #
    • Love getting two emails in a row from someone, one asking me to do something, the other saying they won't do the thing I asked for… #
    • Great advice – "It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal… You’ve just gotta fight your way through" http://bit.ly/g9qh1U /via @meffer #
    • Fighting our natural incentive to postpone small costs – fighting procrastination – http://bit.ly/hNSzFX /via @FortuneMagazine #
    • Ahhhh canadians I love how excited y'all get about politics. Never change. #
    • That being said, if saying you'll move to the US, I don't fully understand why you hate Harper but I doubt you'll find anything better! #
    • Useful advice! Crafting the Perfect Career Wardrobe: http://bit.ly/elEjaD /via @meffer #
    • Trying to explain what I do in 3 sentences or less and make it sound awesome. Help! #
    • Intellectual irreverence – 8-year-old girl plays chess once; improves the game with new rules – http://bit.ly/fe29HU /via @dgou @whitney #
    • This post is hilarious – on dating mathematicians – http://dld.bz/YkjW /via @bengl #
    • 26 today! #
    • Love this post – "I did not get into college just because I'm a girl." – Ayesha Bose – http://ow.ly/4x4V5 via @NCWIT #
    • The @google chrome channel is making me teary this morning, the web is what you make of it – http://www.youtube.com/googlechrome #
    • SO EXCITED! @kwawesomefound gives first grant next week, May 11. Come see our shortlisted projects pitch! http://www.kwawesome.com/event/ #
    • "The city is our canvas, this is our brush" – AWESOME! http://j.mp/hjsS15 /via @eric_andersen #
    • Gah, spending far too long trying to replicate a bug. Nightmare! #
    • These are fabulous – 20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves – http://dld.bz/Yknf /via @KatiePunkin @dgou #
    • Harry Potter Lego finally 100% complete! Thought it would never happen. #
    • This is pretty funny, the math that proves geeks > athletes – http://twitpic.com/4na7my /via @simidchieva #
    • Love this post by @missamykr – making things happen in the crevices of life – http://bit.ly/i08qiX #
    • PANIC! Restaurant for this evening has no accessibility. Need reservation for 19 tonight with disabled access in #kwawesome — help!!!! #
    • Restaurant crisis resolved. New venue is Oliver and Bonacini at the mall. Hopefully they too have good martinis. #
    • In case you missed it, The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything http://n.pr/fMUnri. /via @kjonuska @bkuhlmann #
    • The graph tracking CLs looks like my productivity has dramatically improved. In fact, I just bribed colleague with cupcake to code review. #
    • Fabulous evening out for my birthday! Martinis with marvelous @melle, @lccarson @djphilli @douglasgresham @fillenumerique and non-twitterers #
    • 3 conditions that set the stage for blinding insight – http://dld.bz/Ykpk /via @fillenumerique #
    • First @kwawesomefound is next Wednesday! Register here http://bit.ly/j31HjM #
    • I'm always forgetting git commands, this will be useful! Git cheatsheet/visualization! http://j.mp/g6IGFD /via @dalmaer @eric_andersen #
    • And that's twice this week I've been sufficiently moved to Send An Email (not just reply, which I also do unwillingly). Gah! #
    • "Why I design at Google," – http://goo.gl/tC0fq /via @bl #
    • Deadline. Word and I are doing usual dance where it crashes and I wonder if banging my head against a brick wall would be more productive. #

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24

    • Plans scuppered by weather, having a personal snow day featuring lots of books and lots of tea <3 #
    • Using the @kiva gift cert from @uOttawaWISE (thanks!), repaid credit of $200 and 4 new loans this month – I'm up to 78 loans on @kiva! 🙂 #
    • Awesome a capella Super Mario Bros Theme Song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTB-P5Bt3_Q /via @cuwise #
    • Ruthless Rose – good message here, don't be afraid to kill things that are failing – http://dld.bz/WU4U #
    • Sebastian Thrun on @google's driverless cars at TED – http://dld.bz/WU56 #
    • Raccoon!!!!!!!!! http://t.co/JDGAcFR http://t.co/BfQYajr http://t.co/uwSI7xi http://t.co/Xh10jyC #
    • This is cool – the creative badass manifesto (a work in progress) bit.ly/gY3HPV /via @jenny_blake @JustineMusk #
    • Our receptionist is so perceptive, she notices that I'm not feeling well and medicates me immediately 🙂 feeling better now! #
    • Terrifying but fascinating – a cyber weapon of mass destruction on TED – wp.me/p10512-cMU / via @dgou #
    • We might think we can perform on less sleep, but actually we don't – interesting study in the NYT (last week) – http://dld.bz/WVcR #
    • LinkedIn message: would I like to earn less doing something dull-sounding for a company I've never heard of? Shockingly, no. #
    • My faux fiancee marvelous @melle makes me feel less stabby. Unfortunately one of the many things we agree on is dating women too much work. #
    • Design is a set of decisions about a product – interesting slide deck and commentary about design at Quora – http://dld.bz/WVdm #
    • IBM is rethinking email: "Email is considered a productivity tool, but it's not exactly productive" – http://j.mp/eXoR9W /via @eric_andersen #
    • May have shared before, but still astounding video – math in nature, and it's BEAUTIFUL – http://bit.ly/dVp7ev /via @tgrevatt @spydergrrl #
    • Love this TED talk – Every Day Compassion at Google – create a culture of idealism and let people run free – http://dld.bz/WVt8 #
    • Hanging out in tree trunk thing coding. Aside from headache, this is the happiest I've been all week. Who's ready for a long weekend?! #
    • This is awesome, absolutely ADORE the posters – "The Cult of Done Manifesto" http://bit.ly/Kci1t by @bre /via @brainpicker @missamykr #
    • This is cute – my robot friend – http://tumblr.com/xkz27lr096 /via @pixie658 #
    • Great article and reminder to ask yourself, "am I doing the really important thing?" – http://bit.ly/fix6QI /via @mndoci @hmason #
    • Waking up full of what to code today, remembering it's a holiday. Will have to think of other things instead 🙂 #
    • I did not know there was one of these in TO! (@ Anthropologie) http://4sq.com/gOUdRO #
    • Wonderful time hanging out with @aranoff and @windybinks and wondering around Toronto. This city girl has missed city living! #
    • I think I'm trapped! Will it be like in the movies? (@ Conestoga Mall) http://4sq.com/dH5UIh #
    • Escaped! Being stuck in the mall would have freaked me out a lot more if I wasn't drunk. Yay for lychee sake! #

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17

    • Heading to Ottawa today! Looking forward to seeing some of my favorite people 😀 #
    • Today's airport reading – enchantment by Guy Kawasaki. So far, so enchanting 🙂 #
    • Left jacket on plane! It's raining! I am really not very smart :,( #
    • The clinique counter!!!!! So happy!!!!!!! (@ Sears) http://4sq.com/fwhPSk #
    • Shoes! Handbags! (@ Coach) http://4sq.com/fkrp2y #
    • Martini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With my favorite Canadian @krusk and second favorite Canadian @pauldubeau http://4sq.com/hRkYlt #
    • Ooh a milkshake tasting menu! (@ The Works (Glebe) w/ @krusk) http://4sq.com/fIPw4g #
    • Great to see Ian @thecodefactory (@ The Code Factory) http://4sq.com/i5VwHq #
    • Good to talk to @cuwise and demystify @google interviews a bit! (@ Carleton University) http://4sq.com/h7ZJvZ #
    • One of our chrome engineers is giving a talk, should be good! http://4sq.com/ghyoY3 #
    • I think someone just assumed I wasn't a software engineer and was kinda rude. Hate when people do that. Respect– for that person! #
    • Fabulous evening with @jcbatista @serenangai @Eyenza @behnooshhariri @ponkey_60 and non twitter folk. Back to KW tomorrow! Byeeeee Otown! #
    • This is going to be one of those weeks where I don't get enough sleep. I know it :,( http://4sq.com/gTi3No #
    • 'zactly! #
    • After stress from excessive travelling it looks like I won't be able to leave the country until July. Ultimate excuse! Like I planned it 😉 #
    • Canadians are getting very excited about politics this evening. I admire their passion! #
    • Starting to freak that I'm climbing the CN tower tomorrow and can't find where I send people to sponsor me. At least I know the charity now. #
    • Sponsorship page for my CN Tower climb – if you like the WWF, I hear they're saving the polar bears 🙂 http://bit.ly/i6V4N4 #
    • Do you love polar bears? I'm climbing the CN tower tomorrow for the WWF, you can sponsor me at http://dld.bz/Wy87 (sorry for the repeat) #
    • Just discovered that the tower climb is "hands free" which means "water free". Completely freaking out now. Maybe I can get a water bra? #
    • BIG THANKS to @jliyi @shamattygalle @fillenumerique and @melle who sponsored me. And my mom 🙂 Will try not to die. #
    • Love @jenny_blake's post on being a hypocrite – we're all striving for something, right? http://dld.bz/Wy35 #
    • This is fascinating – Word Cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes – http://dld.bz/Wy4E# #
    • Fabulous, I appreciate shoes – The Shoes Appreciation Society – http://dld.bz/Wy6D #
    • Person calling re delivery "are you mrs gresham?" me "no. Isn't it a little patriarchal to assume I'd take his name even if we were married" #
    • No response to that. We didn't get on to the topic of engagement rings as deposits for sex, either. #
    • Here we go! (@ CN Tower) http://4sq.com/hsWoQw #
    • So despite what I think was my first asthma incident in about 15 years I'm still alive and time was under 40 minutes. Yay! #
    • So grateful the fabulous @fillenumerique turned up with vitamin water and something delicious and chocolatey. Mmmmm! #
    • This is interesting! My tea addiction may be genetically predisposed – http://goo.gl/S2ibA #
    • Feeling nicely chilled out after 90 min massage… (@ Health Connection) http://4sq.com/f07to3 #

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