Today I stumbled across the Twitter feed for the Los Angeles Fire Department. I thought it was sort of a silly novelty until I clicked on the Twitter feed for the only person LAFD is following, Brian Humphrey, a public spokesperson for the department. Humphrey’s use of social sites to create a lightweight process for [...]
The LAFD on Twitter
April 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Links for April 19
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? Darned interesting article on the impact mobile phones have on society. It’s a feature on Jan Chipchase, a researcher at Nokia who publishes an incredible blog that I’ve subscribed to for awhile. Position Is Everything. Yet another site documenting browser CSS limitations. Daring Fireball: The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web [...]
Tags: · Apple, browsers, css, games, human rights, iPhone, links, mobile technology, mysql, poverty, Twitter, Web development
Links from March 13th
March 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? - He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick [...]
Tags: · politics, sex, sports, statistics, terrorism, Twitter, war
On Twitter and blogs
February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Alex King posts about lowering the noise on Twitter. He suggests that Twitter change “What are you doing?” to “Say something interesting,” which works for me.
The truth of Twitter is that it is many things to many people and the beauty of it is that you can mold the Twitter experience to your own tastes. [...]
Tags: · social networks, Twitter, Web 2.0