Elsewise Media Scrapbook » twitter http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com A diary of creative inputs Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:28:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 45 Months http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2010/02/45-months/ http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2010/02/45-months/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:46:41 +0000 Matt Blair http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/?p=978

You don’t have to be a software engineer to appreciate this visualization of the growth of Twitter as a system.

Each photo represents a programmer, each particle represents changes made to the code, and the colors represent different computer languages:

Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo.

What do your collaborative projects look like?

via Peter Wooley and Tech Crunch

]]> http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2010/02/45-months/feed/ 0 The Language of Dissent http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/06/the-language-of-dissent/ http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/06/the-language-of-dissent/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:45:50 +0000 Matt Blair http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/?p=666

Jeff Clark built this shaped word cloud out of 84,000 tweets labeled with #iranelection:

A Visualization of #iranelection Tweets (by Jeff Clark)

A Visualization of #iranelection Tweets (by Jeff Clark)

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A great reminder hidden in Maureen Dowd’s cranky interview with Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams:

ME: Do you ever think “I don’t care that my friend is having a hamburger?”

BIZ: If I said I was eating a hamburger, Evan would be surprised because I’m a vegan.

Something that seems mundane out of context, i.e. “I am eating a hamburger” gains significance and meaning through pre-existing social context, i.e. “I’m a vegan.”

]]> http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/04/data-context-information/feed/ 0 Old Man Stewart, and “The Twitter” http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/03/old-man-stewart-and-the-twitter/ http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/03/old-man-stewart-and-the-twitter/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:45:59 +0000 Matt Blair http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/?p=361

On the March 2nd episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made Dan Schorr seem young and hip, and the always-brilliant Samantha Bee introduced us to “Gruntr”:

Er…did Rick Sanchez say “Boom!” at the start of that clip?

Is that how Edward R. Murrow made transitions?

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