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Wanted: The Unfollowemator

Oct 25, ’11 7:55 AM

As a Twitter user, I want a way to automatically unfollow users who mention specific terms with a certain sentiment, so that I can easily filter out people with which you just can’t argue.

Acceptance Criteria:

  1. This tool should use the latest version of OAuth to allow the user to connect their Twitter account to the application.
  2. This tool should allow the user to enter a keyword or keywords into a text field, then choose an emotional state (probably limited to positive/negative in the first iteration) to filter on.
    • For example, a user might search for positive mentions of “McRib”
  3. The tool should display a few example tweets, and a paginated list of users that will be unfollowed.
  4. The list of users to be unfollowed should include checkboxes, allowing the user to uncheck any box before confirming their unfollows.
  5. After confirming, the user should be presented with an option to automatically unfollow all users who match this query in the future.

Is Dan Sinker’s book making me angry?

Oct 11, ’11 7:42 AM

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Well, no, of course not.

In fact, the Epic Quest makes me happy every time I pick it up. I’ve caught myself pages deep, on the couch with my four-year-old who is impatiently reminding me that she has a book of her own in mind, and hey, why is there a duck on your book, and then I snap out of it and Quaxelrod heads back to the end table, where he sits perched atop an unfinished Clay Shirky tome that is infinitely more relevant to my day job.

Anyway, the funny thing is, I don’t curse on Twitter. Or if I used to, I don’t now. I keep it clean. Maybe an “effing” from time to time, which is a word I never speak away from a keyboard. Ever.

But reading in my imagination’s flavor of @mayoremanuel‘s voice has led me into the habit of narrating mundane things like my honestly-not-bad-lately commute in a similar, profane fashion.

And now I’m trying to decide if it’s therapeutic or sociopathic.

But I’m not trying that hard.

Bootstrap, from Twitter

Aug 22, ’11 9:39 PM

Bootstrap, from Twitter: Wow. This is a full CSS library of sorts for that web app you were going to build next. Great treatments for forms, too. Even supports IE7. Spotted via Daniel.

Does Andy Carvin scale?

Jun 25, ’11 8:04 AM

From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin’s Twitter curation: How do you take @acarvin’s methods (I think the tools already exist) and build them into a news organization’s social media production workflow?

A short list of things you might find useful

Jun 14, ’11 6:40 AM
  1. A proposed new standard for semantic metadata in, say, online news stories.
  2. Michael Donohoe’s bucket list of things the New York Times could do, delivered shortly after he moved on to a new gig.
  3. If you’re not following Richard Koci Hernandez on Instagram, you’re missing out on a hypercreative stream of possibilities.
  4. A short instruction manual from CNN for success on the Web: Strengthen your core, then stretch yourself.
  5. On Wikipedia, all roads lead to Philosophy. And data visualization.
  6. The first rule of Tweet Club is exactly what you think it is.
  7. A book about responsive web design.
  8. How and why the Financial Times built a no-app-store-required HTML5 experience for tablets, and also, the future.
  9. The New York Observer redesigns online to showcase #longreads and scoops. (See also Stock and Flow.)
  10. Google ties together “rel=me” and authorship of things like news stories with a new bit of metadata.

Now, go build something useful.

Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch

May 13, ’11 8:58 AM

Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch: An expected outcome of courtroom tweeting. Would love to see coverage of the Supreme Court along these lines, with NPR’s Nina Totenberg narrating a daily video wrap-up consisting of tweeted sketches and motion graphic quotes.

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The weatherman tweets

May 6, ’11 8:02 AM

The weatherman tweets: How James Spann sparked a social news phenomenon. Excellent use of social media to get news out through any available channel in a storm. Gives me flashbacks to listening to Bryan Norcross on the radio during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 after the power went out.

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An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter

Apr 11, ’11 7:40 AM

An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter: Mathilde Piard cleans up one of the sillier “top newspapers on Twitter” lists to float around the web in recent months.

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Andy Carvin, human verification machine

Apr 11, ’11 7:07 AM

Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? Craig Silverman talks with Andy Carvin about covering revolution from afar, performing atomized acts of journalism to connect individual tweets to sourcing, evidence, witnesses, and narrative.

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Notes from Evan Williams on the five pieces of online identity

Apr 11, ’11 7:03 AM

 

Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity: Notes from Evan Williams (you might remember him from such products that hinge on online identity such as Blogger and Twitter.)

 

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