Over the weekend, I finally made good on a months-long pledge to build a website that would archive tweets from local twitterers. The Indiana Twitosphere uses a WordPress platform and Charles Johnson’s great RSS plug-in, FeedWordPress, to keep tabs on the individual contributions of over 150 known Hoosier twitterers.
A few good men. . . in a movie
Swede yourself. The site for Be Kind Rewind has a fun feature. Here is Carter, starring in A Few Good Men. Watch out, Oscars.
Liveblog: Phoebe Sengers “Representation and Response”
Liveblogging today’s School of Informatics colloquium by Phoebe Sengers (Cornell), “Representation and Response.”
One Million Twitterers
In March 2007, Twitter became the darling of the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. An award-winning presence there launched the microblogging service into the Web 2.0 stratosphere, leading to capital investments and a community of developers and fans. By the time SXSW returns next month (March 7-16), Twitter almost certainly will have surpassed one million members.
Knock Knockers
Archie wants to do whatever Carter does, and Carter tells a mean knock knock joke. Yesterday Archie took a turn at the wheel:
Why Coach Stays
News release: February 17, 2008. Bloomington, IN. Coach Sampson has called together a group of representatives from various media outlets, his current team and their families, professors, tutors, trainers and counselors who have provided much needed support to these essential team members, and several superdelegate fans. Coach takes the mike. Well, (takes a moment) it’s [...]
TweetStats
TweetStats is a nifty way to visualize in simple bar charts our entire history of using Twitter. The metrics are going to change in the future, but these core stats are likely to persist. I ran the Makice family accounts through the TweetStat engine and confirmed that I never sleep.