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Aug 30 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-30

by skairam
  • Does anyone know what's happening with the mess of cop cars that just screamed on to 280 at 6th street? High speed chase? #
  • No joke, in last 1/2 hr, I just saw commercials for websites for both cheating spouses (http://bit.ly/bXLQeo) & cougars http://bit.ly/97LTB3 #
  • Sometimes I want to be the 1000th person to copy someone else's status word for word just to see if anyone still thinks it's funny #
  • @kpanciera Ad Hoc at Home and the ice cream maker are currently my favorite 2 things in my kitchen. They make me happy…and fat. #
  • University students, I bet you're looking for a sweet gig after you graduate. @twitteru is officially here for you! /via @twitter, @yardi #
  • @sharoda Yeah! Planned to stop 8/31, but projects taking longer than expected, so will be in semi-frequently for a few more weeks. #
  • As I prepare to leave @PARCinc, moving to office I used 2 years ago when I first started / Moving in w/ @kevchirp to make room for @sharoda #
  • @msbernst If you crowdsourced a way to hunt down & remove multisyllabic words, would you have a Human Flesch Search Engine? #
  • How did the LATimes write this article on 'predictive policing' & manage to avoid a reference to Minority Report? http://bit.ly/cDtOgI #
  • RT @furrier: Berkley professor writes a letter to his students tell them of the big cheat http://bit.ly/9aVVnY /via @atul #

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Aug 23 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-23

by skairam

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Aug 16 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-16

by skairam
  • @KevChirp Whoa, I don't bike, so that just seems insane to me. in reply to KevChirp #
  • Taking some well-earned "me" time and going to the gym for light workout and swim…then back to the grind. #
  • AAA just keeps paying for itself. Did you know you can do DMV stuff at AAA office? Just renewed registration with no lines – in 5 minutes. #
  • @kaseya Well, the new select options box puts things I use often in a dropdown, adding extra steps, & I generally just think it looks weird. #
  • Am I the only one who finds the new Gmail buttons/menus less visually appealing and more difficult to use? #
  • @edchi Haha, but I'm sure it took grant money! Also in other news, "Science is Hard" – discuss. #
  • NEWSFLASH: Headline from ACM Technews: "Speech Recognition Systems Must Get Smarter, Professor Says" – duh? #
  • @grammarnerd Or you could take that as a sign from Jesus Jobs that you're supposed to take over 4chan? #
  • The @OKCupid blog continues to be the best website blog of which I am aware – New post: How to look good in photos: http://bit.ly/dbqNvw #
  • @feastery did a pretty decent job of capturing my attn. with some beta launch buzz, but what have they been up to for the past couple weeks? #

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Aug 9 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-09

by skairam
  • @katrina_ Hah, just scrolled down to find many tweets about it so I guess I'm late. Why anticlimactic? The climax will be if/when confirmed. #
  • Has anyone else seen the supposed proof of P != NP circulating? http://bit.ly/cunRV3 V. Deolalikar/HP Labs: http://bit.ly/cw2p5R #
  • @r0wb0t At Equinox – but before you judge, it's really the only gym close to both my house and to PARC! #
  • First time in the pool after a several-weeks long hiatus – felt great! Now time to go hunt for @schauertime in Dolores Park. #
  • So is it my imagination or is the new @twitter Who To Follow feature just @mrtweet but with less functionality? http://bit.ly/aRgOw4 #
  • @KevChirp Re: Parking – I'll see your Nightlife and raise you some Giants games! #
  • @chr1sa talk at #PARCForum has me energized and motivated to go home, start playing with my Arduino, and build some stuff! #
  • Economics for open source is different for hardware than software: hardware has a real cost, the 1st item you sell turns a profit #PARCForum #
  • @chr1sa: "Almost anything if you apply 'open' to it makes it kind of interesting" #PARCForum #
  • @chr1sa showing off his product: open source DIY kits for unmanned aerial vehicles: http://diydrones.com/ #PARCForum #
  • @chr1sa referencing http://techshop.ws/ – $100/month gets you access to hacker space with tools and supplies to build #PARCForum #
  • "The global supply chain is now impedance matched to the individual" – if you want 10 of something made, you can make it happen. #PARCForum #
  • The 3rd I.R. will be applying this idea of democratization to atoms instead of bits (creation/distribution of physical objects) #PARCForum #
  • 1st industrial revolution consolidated power into factories, and the 2nd (now) is democratizing tools of creation/distribution. #parcforum #
  • Focus of @chr1sa talk will be applying success of open-source software model to physical stuff. #parcforum (w/ insights from his companies) #
  • Checking out #PARCForum w/ @chr1sa from Wired: Atoms are the New Bits – http://bit.ly/atomsarenewbits – Livestream @ http://www.justin.tv/parcinc #
  • To whomever is heating up the baby-back ribs in the toaster-oven: I am now officially too hungry to work. Going home. #mmmribs #
  • Tending bar at rehearsal dinner for @msbernst's wedding. http://yfrog.com/n330383134j #
  • A federal judge in CA today overturned Google Wave, claiming it is unconstitutionally incomprehensible. RT @tara, @laughingsquid, @davidly #
  • Congrats! » RT @edchi Just agreed to be the Technical Program co-Chair for #CHI2012 conference. #
  • Awesome – Judge Vaughn Walker overturns Prop 8 – @nymag announcement: http://bit.ly/9jkArD & PDF of court docs: http://scr.bi/bEC0Yi #
  • Argh, had to re-schedule a research subject today because my Flip video wouldn't import to iPhoto this morning & didn't have enough space. #
  • Happy birthday r0wb0t! Would today be an appropriate day for 'skiving'? #
  • RT @newsycombinator: Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech http://bit.ly/caSXbz » Rather eloquent high-schooler. #
  • They'd probably have done a better job of swaying people against Prop 8 if they had showed more hot couples on TV. http://exm.nr/aNxH7Y #
  • @redlog I reheat everything w/ oven or stove. Don't even own microwave – they're only good 4 measuring speed of light: http://bit.ly/dCS9vZ #
  • Does anyone know if there are any readily available stats on how many URL's have been bookmarked on delicious? Thanks! /cc @vark #
  • @smc90 Nooo, I clicked your link and read the title and then instantly had to scramble to close it. Dexter fans beware! #
  • Okay, we freaking get it already. You want to be a billionaire. Now shut up and get in line for the One-Hit-Wonderland Express. #
  • @paulesque Oh, it wasn't a mystery – more a set of q's like whether all orgs. are requiring IRB approval for HITs – in what cases, etc. #
  • Someone asked me an interesting question about IRB and MTurk yesterday & I realized I haven't really thought hard enough about the answer. #

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Aug 2 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-02

by skairam
  • Hmmm Sunday wedding and monday morning don't make for a happy combo. #
  • Tending bar at rehearsal dinner for @msbernst's wedding. http://yfrog.com/n330383134j #
  • Holy crap! There was a tornado in the Bronx? http://bit.ly/9bsfmm (less than a mile from where I used to go to school) #
  • @sunshineamonra got me an ice cream maker, but now he's reaping the benefits! Made Mexican Choc. ice cream on Tues. & Cardamom today #mmmm #
  • @paulesque In the normal web interface, at least, I don't think so – once you hit reject, the little checkbox to reject/approve disappears. #
  • Looking at FB Questions, now that it's actually working for me – interesting that they don't show (clearly, at least) who asked a question. #
  • @msbernst Actually, it says it was written yesterday! Don't forget time zones: It's 4PM PST, so it's prob. like, uh, 2008 in England now? #
  • Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #san_franci #researcher #twitter #sanfrancisco #hci #socialcomputing #
  • Does FB Q's just match question tags w/ tags that people explicitly put in their profile? If so, @vark still miles ahead technology-wise. #
  • RT @JessinSF: Interessssting. Facebook questions = Quora? http://twitpic.com/29iw9v (via @resawu) #
  • @msbernst @paulesque @resurgens Wow – just saw on ACM Technews, looks like http://wgatweet.com is getting some press: http://bit.ly/9kgpfK #
  • @borismus Was that dataset released by FB or crawled and compiled by someone else? Re: http://goo.gl/TZlM (FB data for soc. comp. research) in reply to borismus #
  • @msbernst @paulesque @resurgens Good job with http://www.wgatweet.com ! (Though the MTurk ratings of my tweets made me a little sad) #
  • In my dream last night, a major plot point was determining whether or not certain events occurred in a (2nd-lev) dream. #damnyouinception #
  • @EvanMPeck Did you arrive at the coffee shop in a TARDIS? #
  • @EvanMPech Did you arrive at the coffee shop in a TARDIS? #
  • @sharoda If it helps for planning in the future, once you unpack in the Bay Area, you probably won't want to leave again =) #

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Jul 26 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26

by skairam
  • At Fifth Floor. @sunshinamonra astounded by our 10-year-old dining companion: "Excuse me, sir, how is the octopus prepared?" #
  • @SchauerTime It was really quick, like somebody on the other side of the room jumped and landed, so likely easy to miss. #
  • Trouble with living so close to the highway is that I'm never really sure if I've felt an earthquake or not until I check Twitter #
  • Trying out the new Digg Alpha. It's a lot prettier but hard to evaluate until I see more friends on there who I actually want curating. #
  • Argh, why is it so much harder to find errors in your research survey BEFORE spamming the whole organization to ask them to take it? #
  • Study supports structural balance theory in virtual world interactions: http://bit.ly/crrHEC » Perhaps 'proves' is too strong a word? #
  • Inception last night was great – pretty much perfectly walked the line between complexity and comprehensibility. #

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Jul 19 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19

by skairam
  • At Inception with @sunshineamonra. Attempt 2 and got a seat this time, but theater is packed even on a Sumday night. #
  • http://bit.ly/cQ7Idc ROILA: Spoken lang. (words from English, Dutch, & var. African langs.) for Human-Robot InterXn. » Was e-Speranto taken? #
  • DARPA planning human trials for prosthetic arm operated via neural interface: http://bit.ly/d3VpVT /via @wired #
  • RT @nytimes: BP Says Oil Flow from Well Has Stopped as Cap is Tested http://nyti.ms/9liVdn #oilspill /via @edchi #
  • Congrats to @grammarnerd on your Google PhD Fellowship! http://bit.ly/googphd #
  • Amazing idea! Recycled Island: a plan to convert the Great Pacific Garbage Patch http://bit.ly/9VKvv2 into http://www.recycledisland.com/ #
  • @redlog @yardi Thought Leskovec/Kleinberg disc. of status theory was v. compelling – cool to see it modeled this way for indiv. tie choices. #
  • P.S. Once a few people get roped in, 140-char Twitter discussions start getting really unwieldy… #
  • @sharoda Other solution: eschew humans altogether; spend thesis time on building robot partner /cc @msbernst @yardi @katrina_ @redlog et al. #
  • @katrina_ @msbernst @yardi @drewwww Be happy u'r not polyamorous; even physicists can't solve the 3-body prob. (Insp. http://xkcd.com/613/) #
  • @katrina_ Re: Two-body problem, just spent plenty of time talking about it this past April & no females involved. #
  • Okay, Eclipse is poss. on my list of the worst movies I have ever seen in theaters – wish I had more than 140 chars to express my WRATH #
  • RT @Loofadisc: info graphic on the trust-worthiness of beards. awesome. http://pixelspread.com/images/beards_trust_2.jpg #
  • I just joined Feastery – seems like an interesting foodie-twist on the Woot/Gilt/Groupon/Zozi/EVERYONE model: http://bit.ly/dkmvL2 (to join) #
  • Twitter now returning users in search result – curious how these are being computed: http://tcrn.ch/cL1d0W /via @parislemon #
  • @chrismessina Ah, my bad – I signed up so long ago – it looks like only a certain set of buildings are wired for Webpass. #
  • @chrismessina We use WebPass and it seems to work pretty well. Fast & none of the outages I used to have w/ Comcast: http://bit.ly/aSebpO #
  • @sharoda Congrats on CI Fellowship! ASC is a great group and you'll have a great time at @PARCinc! /cc @edchi #
  • .@chockenberry CHOCKLOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS #MOVIESWITHCHOCKLOCK #
  • So if the new containment cap appears to be in place, when do we hear whether the oil has stopped or not? http://bit.ly/9BquDX #bp #
  • RT @parislemon: With the BP leak containment, is someone going to have to enter "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes? http://bit.ly/ajKyqL #

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Jul 12 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12

by skairam
  • EpicWin: iPhone app that combines a to-do list w/ a streamlined RPG. http://youtu.be/AmKwF_Si734 /via @jzy @codinghorror » GWAP win. #
  • @spurpura I was watching CNN over the weekend & I swear it was just Josh Levs & Fredricka Whitfield laughing at stupid YouTube videos. #
  • If you are interested in SXD but couldn't watch #PARCForum today, much of what @gentry talked about & more is here: http://bit.ly/96PTsp #
  • Judge declares US gay-marriage ban unconstitutional http://bit.ly/b3Z7of /via @dannysullivan » Wondering how this will play out… #
  • If you do social software right, it's going to change the community, which will change the software, and so on… #PARCForum #
  • Reasons that Knowledge Sharing solutions fail is rarely technological & more often the result of the human side of the equation #PARCForum #
  • @gentry from @IDEO speaking today at #PARCForum "Beyond Ethnography: Observation & intervention in Social Software Design". #
  • Stay classy, Oakland (please?) #
  • Natl. Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researchers find antibody that "kills 91% of HIV strains": http://bit.ly/ch9lkf /via @WSJ #
  • Fast Company searching for 2010's Most Influential Person Online. How influential are you? Find out at their site: http://fcinf.com/v/ae7j #
  • @woot calls out AP for re-printing their web content after AP charges other blogs $$ to do the same: http://tcrn.ch/cl9GBH /via @parislemon #
  • Forgot to fact-check this AM! Back to the Future 2 took place in 2015, not 2010! http://bit.ly/a1TQ88 – How did this faux-meme get started? #
  • In "Back to the Future," Doc sets Delorean clock to day 25 yrs in the future. Today is that day! /via @edchi, @stevebuttry, @mathewi, et al. #

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Jul 5 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-05

by skairam
  • @KuraFire I have never seen a movie get such ridiculously angry, sarcastic, vituperative reviews – I am absolutely going to see it! #
  • This review has me curious if he's right to posit Airbender as ingenious parody (much like Showgirls?): http://bit.ly/9t0YbE /via @KuraFire #
  • @WebEcology launches 140Kit (http://140kit.com/) – open research platform 4 scraping Twitter data » Sounds promising! /via @informor #
  • Apple iTunes in the cloud with wireless stream/sync? Have been dreaming of this for a while! http://bit.ly/bRs0dy /via @smc90, @techmeme #
  • One problem with being up early is that I'm ready for lunch at like 10:30 AM – need to stockpile some snacks at my desk. #
  • @ljmecca For some reason I thought you would enjoy/hate this http://bit.ly/duJZ48 (Guinea pig fans perhaps shouldn't click…) #
  • Wow – Finland makes broadband Internet access a "legal right": http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/01/finland.broadband/ #
  • RT @verbicidal: Thesis submitted. plane boarded. Let the fun begin. » Congratulations! #
  • @PARCinc Absolutely! Among ASC's full-timers, I count 6 diff. countries (and a lot of soccer fans). in reply to PARCinc #
  • @avanai Was quick to relay tweet from @WSJ before getting time to read full article – good clarification. #
  • Benefits of working in a largely international group: early, possibly long lunch at nearby pub to watch #worldcup #
  • Supreme Court strikes down landmark anti-fraud law, Sarbanes-Oxley. Much more to come at http://wsj.com /via @communicating, @WSJ » whoa #

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Jun 28 10

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28

by skairam
  • RT @Manas: It's like Heisenberg cat-sitting for Schrödinger! http://bit.ly/aHbQiu Headline: "Man reads own obit, dies of shock" #
  • I think someone left a birthday surprise for @sunshineamonra! http://yfrog.com/74hbpifj #
  • I think someone left a birthday surprise for @sunshineamonra! #
  • Not complaining, but got a bunch of new follows today – to anyone new to my stream, just curious – where did you find me? #
  • Do any SF'ers happen to know info about BBQ/Drinks/Event policy for Crissy Field & Beach (Go go gadget Social Search!)? #
  • @msbernst Re: PhD Minor in Media Lab – Wow, that's awesome! Are we going to get to see pics/videos/etc. (tweets?) from your project? #
  • @msbernst Actually on topic of mixing groups (& identities), someone recently reminded me of this Seinfeld gem: http://youtu.be/SxuYdzs4SS8 #
  • Is anyone seriously still trying to argue the idea that we have just one identity? (in the conventionally used sense of the word) #
  • Bad decision to upgrade to iOS4 this morning – late for work, update more than an hour and still going, and no progress bar right now… #
  • RT @johnmaeda: Actual Hazard vs Public Outrage graphic is interesting. http://bit.ly/bphh4A #
  • Just embarrassed myself trying to explain "smizing" to @benhanrahan and @r0wb0t – here you go: http://bit.ly/a5ZluW #
  • @msbernst UMAP and EC-TEL were the ones I'd found so far, but couldn't really find anything else online. #
  • Anyone have tips on best places to submit work on user modeling for e-learning (with a bit of a social info systems angle)? #

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