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  Re: Store Twitter URLs in earth's oceans? (Scripting News) I just stumbled across a website that has me thinking about my first introduction to hypertext. By way of experimentation, I connected Anil Dash's entry on the Twitter API, Brad Feld's piece on URL shorteners, and, now, your blog entry. The end result was posting an update on Twitter that links to a location where all 3 can be referenced: "Twitter API" http://dot.to/cAbIP
  
  So, no need to burden the tweet with extra URL metadata, and the connections are all made outside of Twitter.

  8 months on
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  Re: How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News) I'm doing that myself with all the people I follow.
  
  But it doesn't get really interesting until the data is completely
  independent of Twitter.
  
  Dave

  9 months on
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  Re: How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News) Just thinking outloud here ... If I were to use a client application running on my own server that abided by Twitter's api access restraint, I could pull my RSS feed (or anyone's) from Twitter to archive it, transform it, analyze it, and (or) create a mashup of the feed(s) that could be republished on my server or some other server. The point being, the content would no longer be controlled and stored by Twitter.

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  Re: Facebook Friends For Sale: This Time It’s Not a Game My gut reaction is this smacks of sleezy mass marketing. This is not how to conduct business. This is not how to attract and engage fans, customers, or clients. If they can't reveal how their service works, how can their service be evaluated? If they have to hide what they're doing, they are likely violating Facebook's Terms of Service and users' privacy.

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  Re: Yahoo embracing Twitter? (Scripting News) What Yahoo has done in the past and may be doing in the future is business, and business is business. Since I don't own stock Yahoo, as a consumer my interest is in what services they offer. I may or may not choose to use them. What prompted me to respond, Dave, was your last sentence.
  
  For the most part, Twitter is noise. Too often, I read about how useful it can be to communicate with customers and to engage in meaningful dialog with colleagues. I would like someone to explain how Twitter is more effective than email, blogging, or even picking up the phone and speaking with a real person. It seems to me that Twitter's 140 character limit is precisely what prevents us from truly engaging with each other. It always will. Fine, it's useful for "status" updates. Yet, why do I want to know what you're having for dinner? I assure you that I do not.
  
  Last week, I became aware of an alternative service called Woofer (http://woofertime.com/). Woofer requires that your "woof" be more than 140 characters; they refer to the activity as "macroblogging." Of course, this is a direct attack on Twitter's limit. It's unfortunate that the review I read, ultimately, characterized this service as joke, with Twitter being the butt of the joke. The problem, as I see it, is that both put limits on communication. It would be much more effective and useful not to be limited. But then ... don't we already have services that provide that ability? Umm, yes: instant messaging and email, for two. The only difference is they aren't broadcasted to the public.

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  Re: Why I love my Sony Walkman (Scripting News) That's right. My mother is smart, PhD-educated, but she doesn't feel comfortable with computers at the level you and I do. So it's something of a miracle that she has mastered the Walkman.

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  Re: Why I love my Sony Walkman (Scripting News) What was the acronym that years ago was beaten into my brain? Oh, yes! K.I.S.S. While the points you raise regarding the Walkman's features are useful for the tech-savvy, I believe the most salient point is that it's easy enough for your mother to use (not to disparage your mother). Do we really need our cell phones to record video, take pictures, conduct business, chat, and email: to name just a few. I think not. When we insist on increasing functionality, we usually sacrifice in favor of the quality of function and increased complexity.

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  Re: How will we get our news? (Scripting News) While I do enjoy the experience of actually holding a paper (book or magazine) in my hands and turning pages, I will also be honest in admitting that I don't know when the last time I actually read a newpaper was. I don't even watch the daily news broadcasts on television. Not because I have no desire to stay informed, but I don't need them as sources. I stay informed by carefully evaluating the "news" that comes to me through various syndicated feeds and visiting the online versions of print news publishers. I do believe that, for whatever reasons, the print media acknowleged some time ago the need to establish a presence on the web.
  
  The web services and syndicated feeds are where they need to concentrate their efforts. Traditonal print media has become inefficient and not cost effective. They need to abandon their obsessive grip on the past and begin to embrace new channels to distribute their product. As far as subsidizing a failing business model based on inefficient technology with government funded bailouts, don't even think about going there. Such a solution only sets us on the dangerous edge of a slippery slope. I do believe our Consitution recognizes the necessity of a separation between government and our rights to investigate their actions.

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  Re: Measuring Feedburner's latency (Scripting News) Your data supports what I've casually observed. I've combining two feeds through FeedBurner and post that feed through a Twitter account.

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  Re: Measuring Feedburner's latency (Scripting News) Your data fits with what I've noted through observation. I'm taking a twitter feed, splicing it to another, and sending it back via FeedBurner via twitter.

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