Category: twitter

  • “Similar to You”

    “Similar to You”

    IN THE TRADITION of “People who bought ‘Assmasters’ also bought ‘Assmasters II,’” Twitter has chosen four of my Twitter friends and is presenting them to me as being “Similar to You.” Pray what does this…

  • Thanks for sharing

    Thanks for sharing

    i’m UNfollowing you on twitter — here’s why LOVE your stuff!!! however, your twitter posts have taken over my twitter stream: a good 30% of my stream is YOUR stuff. so i’ve decided to UNfollow…

  • Like a prayer

    Like a prayer

    An essay in three tweets: Morality isn’t how you think, it’s what you do about your violent carnal greedy cowardly natural impulses. # Good religion attempts to explain our deep connection to others. Bad religion…

  • Twitter Top 140

    Twitter Top 140

    “Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…

  • Stop chasing followers

    Stop chasing followers

    The internet is not a numbers game. It’s about dialog, persuasion, and influence. You don’t want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from…

  • You cannot copyright a Tweet

    You cannot copyright a Tweet

    CONTRARY to popular belief and Twitter’s terms of service, you cannot copyright a Tweet. Under US law, copyright is granted on publication to “original works of authorship” finalized in “fixed forms of expression” but this…

  • Recent Tweets

    Recent Tweets

    The Ultimate Hipster Irony http://bigthink.com/ideas/18758 Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think: http://bigthink.com/ideas/18522 Seeing too many ultra-minimal/undesigned blogs labeled “beautiful” cuz they use a @typekit font or two. Uh-uh. I…

  • 17 Tweets

    17 Tweets

    Just like it says.

  • AEA Seattle after-report

    AEA Seattle after-report

    Relive those AEA Seattle memories (or enjoy the show vicariously) via sketches, photos, and Tweets.

  • Tiny URL, Big Trouble

    Tiny URL, Big Trouble

    Joshua Schachter explains.

  • Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom

    Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom

    If Twitter is a medium for text-messaging, then content such as “Dude, where are you? We’re in the mezzanine” is perfectly appropriate, and “Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom” is practically overachievement. If it’s micro-blogging,…

  • A Tweet Too Far

    A Tweet Too Far

    Ariel Waldman’s “Twitter Refuses to Uphold Terms of Service” makes a disturbing read and a depressing revelation. To summarize: Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS), modeled on Flickr’s, forbid one Twitter user to harass another. If…

  • The vanishing personal site

    The vanishing personal site

    OUR PERSONAL SITES, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and…

  • Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu

    Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu

    If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”