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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26

skairam — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

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. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19

skairam — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

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 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12

skairam — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

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. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-05

skairam — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

@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 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28

skairam — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0000

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)? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21

skairam — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Uhhhhh amazing? "Oh Sookie" by Snoop Dogg #trueblood #TB http://truebloodnet.com/true-blood-season-3-snoop-dogg-video/ #
This paper has been on a crash-diet: started out as 10 and arduously whittled down to 8 – now they want it in 6! #
@yardi Generally, in the sense of what's appropriate to share, tone of voice, etc. like the kind that execs. are probably starting to get. #
@andresmh Re: http://bit.ly/bppYTb This strikes me as evidence for a need for social-media education for govt. officials /cc @yardi in reply to andresmh #
For some reason it just struck me as sort of fascinating that Amazon offers me a way to refer to real-life products using a URL. #
Read nice new word: "shovelware" (traditional paper documents mounted directly on the web) – from http://amzn.to/cuvUsl #
That is a great question! RT @smunson: @skairam curious what percent of social time is now Internet Time? #
According to Nielsen, 22% of all Internet Time is now "social" (messaging, commenting, blogging, 'liking', etc.) http://nyti.ms/aNrHGQ #
@bkeegan Congrats on SocialCom acceptance! Out of curiosity, when did you get the email? Haven't received one yet, & it's making me nervous! #
@KevChirp A) Does that mean you are tweeting while driving? B) Does that mean you'd prefer to skype and drive? :p in reply to KevChirp #
@xamat I didn't do my own fact-checking on that N. Korea tweet, but it came from @bjfogg, so I do hope it's credible! #
RT @bjfogg: Freaky. The "fans" of North Korea at #worldcup are really actors hired from China (acc to announcers) #
Re: Last Tweet – not sure if they have actually performed the experiment or whether they are just theorizing how it could be done. #
Interesting: German researchers find diffs. b/w gravitational/inertial mass (contradicting Einstein's equiv. princ.) http://bit.ly/aEGqOW #
Can now tag tweets w/venues (& see all tweets from a venue, incl. 4Sq & GoWalla): http://tcrn.ch/dvskhw / Twitter blog: http://bit.ly/bi1v5F #
RT @mstrohm, @merrierm: TripAdvisor to show which of your FB friends have expertise about particular locations: http://bit.ly/aDZTRg #
@vlad43210 @communicating @redlog Thx for soft-boiled egg advice! Was trying to put in a salad, & issue mostly how to get out of the shell #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-14

skairam — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Halfway through making this soft-boiled egg, it occurs to me that I don't know how to make a soft-boiled egg. #
If some enterprising entrepreneur's looking for an idea, please start making "Our Lady of Gaga-Lupe" dashboard figurines & then GIVE ME ONE. #
@LadyLaurian Funny to open that site as I ruminate on "surface characteristics affecting judgments of website credibility". in reply to LadyLaurian #
Is @Mickey__Rourke actually Mickey Rourke? Because his Twitter feed is actually pretty hilarious. #
RT @DRUNKHULK: NEW APPLE PRODUCT! A-TEAM! KARATE KID IN CINEMA! ALL DRUNK HULK NEED IS WHAM AND WHERE BEEF! AND IT 1984 ALL OVER AGAIN! #
Will be interested in seeing what Twitter does with Dabble DB (http://dabbledb.com/) /via @chrismessina, @christine, @techmeme #
Anyone interested in beta-testing @PARCinc Windows Outlook plug-in http://meshstro.com/ ? Cool tool! Send me a note. #
Ok, the gray hairs I can deal with, but is it too much to ask that they come in symmetrically? #
I'm in! RT @merrierm: Social media paper discussion group: want to follow along remotely? Aardvark paper http://bit.ly/9hTk9f /via @brynn #
"BP: You're not mad enough to not drive your car": sadly true & the funniest part of http://bit.ly/9FhVUh /via @JessinSF #
Blargh, I was pretty sure I'd resisit the call of a new iPhone, but $199 is just low enough to make me weak. #
What's happening at the #WWDC Keynote? Did he kill the smoke monster yet? Maybe after the Nissan commercial break? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-07

skairam — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0000

No better way to wrap up a weekend than with 900 miles of driving. #
Early Saturday morning wake up for secret weekend mission! #
This drummer is definitely in the wrong gig: http://bit.ly/cWK9o0 (at one point I forgot the rest of the band was playing) #
If you're into music, mobile games, social games, or prediction markets, check out Hitmaker from @ntoys: http://tcrn.ch/dmCzNr #
My good friends at @ntoys just rolled out their mobile-social-music game Hitmaker! http://bit.ly/cfMf6F #
@velvetglacier "Feral" to me connotes idea that data runs rampant. Once out of the box, hard to get it back in – kind of like data entropy in reply to velvetglacier #
"If we think of the Internet as feral, is it a camel? is it a bunny? is it a cane toad?" #PARCForum #
G. Bell "What appears to be a solution, might not be." #PARCForum (last 3 tweets reference stories of camels, rabbits, & toads in Australia) #
G. Bell "Once it's feral, it's ALWAYS feral." #PARCForum #
G. Bell: "Things will sometimes go feral when you're not looking." #PARCForum #
G. Bell: "Feral": Not just wild, but rather connoting an "escape from domestication". Interesting lens to look with which technology. #
Re: Last tweet – #PARCForum not available live this week – but you can still watch when they put the taped version up in a couple of days. #
Heading over to #PARCForum with Genevieve Bell: http://bit.ly/9rPkU2 – You can watch live here: http://www.justin.tv/parcinc/ #
Glance at my cellphone & think "how did we ever meet anyone anywhere before these?" Wonder if anyone ever did the same with a pocketwatch? #
Awesome Blog: http://youarenotsosmart.wordpress.com/ – self-delusions, misconceptions, & other patterns of irrationality /via @hamiltonulmer #
Apple iPad scores high in Dolphin-Computer Interaction tests: http://speakdolphin.com/home.cfm #
RT @peter: It's about freaking time we get smarter parking in SF. This looks promising: http://sfpark.org/ #
UCLA researchers work on software to auto-generate text annotations for surveillance cameras (cool & a little creepy): http://bit.ly/bEil52 #
Wow, nice to see rational, scientific reasoning in the courts! fMRI lie-detection deemed inadmissible by TN court: http://bit.ly/95eY48 #
@verbicidal Re: "HCI for Evil", that sounds amazing – I'm totally in. in reply to verbicidal #
Anyone remember Microsoft Bob? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob (Also responsible for the creation of,*gasp*, Comic Sans) #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31

skairam — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Side note: I'd like to thank Twitter for allowing me to get actual news from someone impersonating a drunk version of the Incredible Hulk. #
RT @DRUNKHULK: WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT WORLD! GARY COLEMAN PASS AWAY! » Whoa, out of nowhere! http://nyti.ms/bwmvui #
@redlog I think that "the" always adds a flair of ignorant distance, think of how it sounds when applied to a group of people. #
RT @ashwinram, @fastcompany: BREAKING: Top Kill Stopped Flow of Oil Into Gulf, BP Says http://bit.ly/8WZaI3 » Awesome if telling the truth! #
Re: Last Tweet » "Rich people shouldn't pay taxes since they don't use socialist handouts like welfare and government cheese." #
Republicans reach out to citizens for advice on policy w/ social voting website: http://www.americaspeakingout.com/ » Results = Hilarious #
RT @FakeAPStylebook: The 4 seasons are Spring, Summer, Winter & Fall. For CA, change to Mudslide, Hillfire, Flood & Earthquake. /via @Manas #
Preparing for Data Lunch talk tomorrow by practicing saying "Lick-ert" instead of "Like-ert" (Wikipedia likes both) #
RT @koshashah: Excited for @ntoys to present soon at TechCrunch Disrupt! #tcdisrupt – tcdisrupt live on http://livestream.com/disrupt #
@ljmecca That prophecy was not fulfilled #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24

skairam — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Whoooa Facebook questions? Hopefully it will be more Aardvark/Quora and less Formspring http://tcrn.ch/cP73g8 /via @parislemon /cc @brynn #
Attention Twitter: I'm not going to get to watch the LOST finale until Tuesday – please be charitable and wait to post spoilers!!! #
Up early today – first a great workout, now lunch with @ljmecca out in the warm California sun. Feeling great!!! #
Does anyone know what's going on with all the fire trucks/cop cars near Mars Bar? (7th and Brannan)? #
@sunshineamonra: "Hey, I made these brownies, but I'm not sure if the eggs were good – can you taste this? No, take a bigger piece…" #
Just posted a new blog post: Social Networks, Health, & Youth: http://bit.ly/duCVPg #
@ChrisSaad Don't know if that data's aggregated anywhere, but colleague studying 4Sq indicated it may actually be a train station in Japan. in reply to ChrisSaad #
@LadyLaurian Haha, the ambient PacMan sounds are much much funnier now that you pointed it out #parc #google #pacman in reply to LadyLaurian #
@peter Maybe Technologic might inspire you as well? in reply to peter #
RT @malpern: My goal this year: Bring together the #wikipedia #dataanalytics and #webdesign communities to make something fun » Awesome! #
Klemmer's comparison of benefits of parallel vs. serial design seems similar to the benefits of sexual vs. asexual reproduction #PARCForum #
Klemmer quoting Marsh, 1993 study: Examples increase conformity but without reducing novelty #PARCForum #
If you want to follow/watch #AVI2010 via Internet next week, check out: http://conference.dis.uniroma1.it/avi2010/ #
@carechiang I'd be so curious to see how their experiment goes – can you report back in a few weeks?! #
Panera opens a "Pay what you can afford" location. This will be an interesting experiment! http://bit.ly/cGKh83 /via @davemunger, @jruckman #
Bomb threat. Union Square, SF. http://bit.ly/cQA54E http://bit.ly/9uHnoY /via @schauertime, @magnuson – updates here: http://bit.ly/d3vR2G #
RT @borismus: Seriously, London? http://bit.ly/d8RckS » Are the mascots' camera eyes inspired by crazy London surveillance? #
"Church", MIT's experimental, probabilistic programming language for building machine-learning systems faster: http://bit.ly/auxi9L #
RT @Techmeme: Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm (Which Is Just Soooo Cool) (@cwdillow / Popular Science) http://techme.me/=ZVM #
@ljmecca Try the Chicken MarkNuggets!!!!! #
Looking forward to reading 2 interesting papers from @scottjcounts on info diffusion in Twitter: http://bit.ly/d99YwE #
@sharoda @msbernst @mikeyk If WE, as FB early-users & nerds, are struggling to keep up w/ this, imagine what it's like for general public! #
http://bit.ly/aFct7h FB Privacy Scanner informed me about "info abt me that my friends can share" (didn't know about that one) /via @mikeyk #
UNC Researchers developing new methods for identifying and tracking patterns over time in networks: http://bit.ly/91fkv0 #