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For the 10 gazillionth time the network (as in the people I am connected to) saves the day again. For some upcoming presentations and conferences, I was hoping to set up TwitterCamp, a desktop app (Mac and PC) that runs in Adobe Air and displays in near real time the incoming tweets for a specific [...]

Tweetscan is “a real-time search engine for Twitter posts. Beyond that, TweetScan can do your searches automatically and email them to you”.
At the ego level, you can use it to search for tweets directed at yourself or make that, myself.

So this is extremely useful to track replies people may make to you who are [...]

No, I will not follow this crud on twitter:

That is a quick delete.
In a few days I predict invites bearing glorious news like:
Texas Holdem Galore (txpokerscum) is now following your updates on Twitter..
ViagraPropeciaCialis (thebluepill) is now following your updates on Twitter…
NastyAnimalSex (dontclickhere) is now following your updates on Twitter…

Hughs Law to be proved any day [...]

It’s just an un-scientific hunch, but twitter seems to “got game”. Jaiku flickered and faded. Pownce came out with a nice interface, threads, but I’m still tuned to twitter. It’s this dog’s rule that there is never a ‘best’ technology, just the one you happen to be using at the time. It’s going to all [...]

This will prove I am not a statistician.. but I was mildly wondering today about patterns among people who twitter, as I glanced at my friends, as well as random people on the public timeline and the number of friends and followers on their pages. It seems there might be some behavior patterns there. [...]

At one time I bemoaned a future of having multiple blogs to spread my self around. That was so 1.0. I have two personal ones (one just for running or complaining about it), three ones at NMC for various projects, plus our main drupal site which has blog like writing duties, plus others I am [...]