Twitter – trends and incidence
This past weekend, I wrote a quick tool that estimates the incidence of certain words within the twitter stream using just a single search, not… Read More »Twitter – trends and incidence
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Dan Gillmor says the future of journalism depends on active citizens: 'Weirdly optimistic': News: Feature: Independent Weekly: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill Thoughtful interview of Dan… Read More »links for 2009-04-30
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Foreign Policy: 68 Million Congolese Can't Be Wrong Another response to the FP article on breaking up the Congo: "Congo, in short, exists because 68… Read More »links for 2009-04-28
If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
It’s an unseasonably beautiful day here in Western Massachusetts, roughly 30 degrees farenheight higher than it has any right to be, and I was sitting… Read More »If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
(Notes from a talk by my friend Marc Lynch, in dialog with Mohammed Bazzi from NYU’s journalism school at Open Society Institute, Tuesday night. Not… Read More »Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
Flu infects Twitter
Two weekends ago, I wrote a couple of scripts designed to let me (and anyone else who was interested) study the emergence of memes on… Read More »Flu infects Twitter