[FRIAM] twitter is a dumpster fire - Musk is welcome to it
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[FRIAM] Twitter: Data Viz and Related Article on East Asian Currencies
https://twitter.com/jashkenas 1. *Jeremy Ashkenas* @jashkenas https://twitter.com/jashkenas 1h1 hour ago https://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/632003231384752128 Get yer weird chart fix for today! A Triangular Guide to the East Asian Currency Wars http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20 15/08/13/business/international/the-yen-won-and-renminbi-a-triangular-guide-to-the-east-asian-currency-wars.html … http://t.co/cDsR1mU2sg Will the Yen, Yuan or Won win? Jeremy Ashkenas, author of underscore, coffeescript and much more .. is a NYTimes technologist. Turns out that NYT is trying to have articles have companion articles that are more techie .. data viz. Kinda like pairing wine and food. Techie: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/13/business/international/the-yen-won-and-renminbi-a-triangular-guide-to-the-east-asian-currency-wars.html Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/business/dealbook/chinas-renminbi-devaluation-may-initiate-new-phase-in-global-currency-war.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!
This is dead on wonderful. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:19 PM To: Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort! https://twitter.com/BillB Bill Budge retweeted https://twitter.com/JustineTunney Justine Tunney @JustineTunney https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/555406537662156800 Jan 14 This is what it means to be English. https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/555406537662156800/photo/1 https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/555406537662156800/photo/1 * FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!
I'm sorry, only got the 1st 140 chars. :) Seriously? Most Info Per Square Inch. The above was 79 chars. Was it good info per inch^2? On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Why, because it offers you twice-indirected stories? I think that is less an argument why it is 'worth the effort', and more an argument for why it allows you not to put in the effort. You could just as easily browse Reddit and have seen the screencapped comment https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2se526/what_is_the_most_quintessentially_english_thing/cnonev0?context=9, or you could have even just read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because although this happened to Adams, he also had his character Arthur Dent tell it as his own story to his then-girlfriend Fenchurch. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!
Bill Budge https://twitter.com/BillB retweeted *Justine Tunney* @JustineTunney https://twitter.com/JustineTunney Jan 14 https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/555406537662156800 This is what it means to be English. [image: Embedded image permalink] https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/555406537662156800/photo/1 - FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!
Why, because it offers you twice-indirected stories? I think that is less an argument why it is 'worth the effort', and more an argument for why it allows you not to put in the effort. You could just as easily browse Reddit and have seen the screencapped comment https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2se526/what_is_the_most_quintessentially_english_thing/cnonev0?context=9, or you could have even just read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because although this happened to Adams, he also had his character Arthur Dent tell it as his own story to his then-girlfriend Fenchurch. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Twitter Wisdom
https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%3Frefsrc%3Demailsig=76add118f9dfd33f63864ce34d9372e483cfba4auid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+21t=1 https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%3Frefsrc%3Demailsig=76add118f9dfd33f63864ce34d9372e483cfba4auid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+21t=1 [image: backspaces] https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbackspacessig=de2ee3e5fe76f3022977956a8fb38d4485af7b7cuid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+460t=1 Owen Densmore saw this and thought of you! https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fgruber%2Fstatus%2F408632451641393152sig=74a451ddc1041679590d36766eeb638ffb210ab9uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1262t=1 John Gruberhttps://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fgruber%2Fstatus%2F408632451641393152sig=74a451ddc1041679590d36766eeb638ffb210ab9uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1264t=1 @gruberhttps://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fgruber%2Fstatus%2F408632451641393152sig=74a451ddc1041679590d36766eeb638ffb210ab9uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1264t=1 “A bleak, joyless, dystopian future where ‘invite’ is a noun and ‘gift’ a verb.” 04:22 PM - 05 Dec 13https://twitter.com/gruber/status/408632451641393152 https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fthemaxx_mst%2Fstatus%2F408636079747907584sig=6a6b904dea133ba2322e9d56fe6454b2fe5euid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1322t=1 https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbbchase%2Fstatus%2F408637640070529025sig=a7ca53e3dd20105a7760bd8be1c7ce39bfd61a77uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1322t=1 https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fesoneill%2Fstatus%2F408634880277610496sig=e873b1b15ac7d24995269cd2a49efe2f6fad1860uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1322t=1 https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsprunka%2Fstatus%2F408637775475245056sig=be21872ae52782dda3b4bad33fcf8d8d0d836643uid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+1322t=1 are also in this conversation. Join in! https://twitter.com/gruber/status/408632451641393152 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter / txjs: It's a good day for JavaScript! ...
Okay, I'll bite. What is the inside joke about undefined is not a function? Gary On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Sorta an in-joke but: https://twitter.com/txjs/status/323781055855337474/photo/1 -- Owen Twitter: more info per sq in FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter / txjs: It's a good day for JavaScript! ...
On 4/15/13 9:07 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: Okay, I'll bite. What is the inside joke about undefined is not a function? Suppose you have a JavaScript function that's intended to take an object as an argument, and you forget to provide it when you call the function. No problem! Say the function is called `go to lunch' and the object is supposed to be a credit card. Now you're done with lunch, and you pass the waiter that object that is intended to be used to pay for lunch. The waiter swipes it on the credit card reader, and it remarks undefined is not a function. Good enough for Santa Fe, I suppose. How about for a Dreamliner? Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter
[Sorry for late replies, I've got a problem with mail being late and even out of order.] I think its turned into a sibling of IRC, where folks chat continuously on very specific topics. Hi S/N for me: - I read about asm.js, so tried the official coffeescript gmail group, asking if asm.js might be an eventual target for CS. No response. - This is important for agentscript, so decided to contact Jeremy Ashkanas, the author of CS directly. Twitter was the only option that made sense - He answered within an hour or two, saying that only when asmjs actually was in browsers would it be considered. - This started a small, but very focused conversation between Jeremy and Brenden Eich, JS's creator and CTO of mozilla who is supporting asm.js. I got ccd as the originator of the thread. Another example: - My ISP, Joyent, decided to shed all its shared hosting, and transferred those accounts to TextDrive, who they originally acquired to expand into shared hosting originally(!). - Although the transfer was a near miracle .. pretty tough sys-admin task, there was a period of seemingly alarming behavior of my server .. looking like I was possibly hacked. - The forum and other standard means of contact failed, suggesting a possible problem with their servers. - But then I noticed that they had two twitter accounts, one for system status, the other for support. - Between them, I resolved my problems, got my server unlocked, and was on the air quickly. There are others, and my use is pretty focused. I also started building twitter lists on topics like JavaScript, TextDrive and so on. But all this got me browsing twitter more than before, and I was surprised just how useful it is. Stephen suggested I look at FlipBoard, the iPad app that aggregates several social media and news sources .. and in twitter's case includes the associated media the tweets refer to (tweets, being short, benefit from this expansion) It seems a pretty valuable tool for twitter. So good S/N does take some work and works best in very focused interest groups. -- Owen On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: But twitter is a really different beast and I blush to say that the Info Per Square Second is pegged to the max there. I'm intrigued… the few times I've tried Twitter I've found that the signal to noise ratio is vanishingly small have abandoned it after a couple of days. But it sounds like you are finding value. Got some examples of hashtags where S/N 0? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter
I thought the whole point of twitter was the noise. At least, that is what I put on my feed and how I use it - it is like the fleeting pleasure of being in a loud, crowded room. I find it indicative that most of Twitters pageviews come from external sites, being linked in from people's little embedded boxes listing their recent tweets. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter
I don't use twitter myself. Seriously. Too narcissistic. Seriously. I don't want anybody following me. -Doug On Mar 4, 2013 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I've recently been thrust into Twitter: - My new ISP/Hosting uses twitter for news updates and support. - A bizarre problem with backspaces (me) and backspac.es/backspacesapptrying to not conflict. - A chance encounter with the CoffeeScript author (Jeremy Ashkenas) and JavaScript creator (Brendan Eich) - A discussion on a high performance JS stunt (asm.js) with near-C++ performance - I'm helping a priest and some other friends to use twitter (its Lent, after all!) - I'm looking into twitter github open source frameworks. .. and a few more. I'm on the bandwagon. I can't believe it. I despise Facebook .. but none the less use it (needed for a funeral/wake, and to get in touch with a high school I taught at, and to chat with a few authors, and naturally to follow Doug and some family members). G+ is FB for the rest of us. But twitter is a really different beast and I blush to say that the Info Per Square Second is pegged to the max there. Who'da thought. Any of the rest of us like it? Do you use tools other than the twitter.com site or their phone/tablet apps? I'd love to hear of our twitter use. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter
If you attempt to follow hashtags, the signal-to-noise ratio will be pretty poor. Hashtag search is good if you are interested in a specific topic and you don't necessarily know who will be talking about it. For example, #overlyhonestmethods (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23overlyhonestmethodssrc=hash) has scientists talking about how they actually do research, which is hilarious. Of course it also has people talking about scientists talking about how they actually do research (which is generally the noise). It's also good for following trending stories, like Dennis Rodman in North Korea: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23thewormsrc=typd A much better strategy for getting a good S/N ratio on Twitter is to follow people who post useful content. Tim O'Reilly (the publisher) is a great example: https://twitter.com/timoreilly Some more examples related to complexity: The Santa Fe Institute: https://twitter.com/sfi_news Complexity Digest (curated by Carlos Gershenson): https://twitter.com/cxdig or just Carlos Gershenson directly: https://twitter.com/cgershen Pierre Omidyar: https://twitter.com/pierre Just find people who have interests in line with yours and follow them. Most of the value from Twitter comes from links to other content on the web, unless you really are interested in whenever your favorite celebrity gets a coffee at Starbucks... Brent From: Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.org On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: But twitter is a really different beast and I blush to say that the Info Per Square Second is pegged to the max there. I'm intrigued… the few times I've tried Twitter I've found that the signal to noise ratio is vanishingly small have abandoned it after a couple of days. But it sounds like you are finding value. Got some examples of hashtags where S/N 0? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Twitter / @neiltyson: The best engineering flow ...
http://twitter.com/#!/neiltyson/status/149569759485235200/photo/1 The best engineering flow chart ever: -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
