Handwritten Recipes found tucked here and there.

[via a tweet from Forgotten Bookmarks]

Labels: blog, recipes, twitter, URL

   posted by Sal Towse at  3:32 PM|| |

Practical Tips for Combatting Swine Flu In Your Home | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

There is always some flu around and flu is always killing some people. Even when a raw mutant flu manages to kill off more people than a shooting-war, flu has never ravaged whole cities as cholera or the Black Death can do. As awful pandemics go, flu is like the snotty-nosed little sister of awful pandemics.

I've been tracking Twitter and checking what people are twittering about porcine influenza.

We now have multiple Twitter accounts aggregating swine flu news with names like stoptheswine, SwineFlu, SwineFluTweets and more. Someone's even picked up the domain name swinefluoutbreaknews.com.

There's hype hype HYPE! and folks madly re-tweeting such things as How swine flu could be a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war http://bit.ly/4CKca (something from UK's Daily Mail Online)

Chill, people. Really.

For up-to-date information go to the CDC site

Labels: health, news, twitter

   posted by Sal Towse at  3:22 PM|| |

A daily diary of Depression-era life, told on Twitter : The Social Path

Interesting use of Twitter.

[via Biz Stone's twitterfeed]

Labels: history, twitter

   posted by Sal Towse at  2:02 PM|| |

"Many Twitter users adopt a "quality not quantity" strategy by only following a certain number of Twitterers. But, by using certain tools and adopting a certain mindset, I think you can achieve both quality and quantity.

"Here's how I follow 2,500 people on Twitter:

"It's a stream, not a publication."

[...]

"The more people you follow (your Twitter "friends"), the more chance you have of stumbling across something interesting. The more diverse your Twitter friends are, the more likely you'll stumble across something useful from outside your immediate circles. For me, those are the most interesting Twitter experiences.

"So stop worrying about what you're missing. Focus on what you do see."

[...]


Paul Bradshaw - How Do You 'Follow' 2,500 People on Twitter?

[via a Poynter tweet]

Labels: lifehacks, twitter

   posted by Sal Towse at  12:20 PM|| |

I find Daily Dish interesting and all. Decided I'd follow Sullivan's tweets.

But after returning to my new DailyDish-enabled twitterstream, I realized Sullivan tweets for each and every post he makes on Daily Dish and was swamping all the other content I keep an eye on.

Fifteen seconds after adding a "follow," I removed it.

Perhaps some sort of protocol for apps like tweets? Don't post so much that the other folks you're sharing virtual space with are overwhelmed? Not too many, not too few, just right?

Or am I just a fud and a dud and not a with-it happenin' person?

Could be.

Labels: twitter, web2.0

   posted by Sal Towse at  1:26 PM|| |

dm fail! Messages from folks who accidentally post a tweet when they meant to DM.

e.g. Dude, you left your hemorrhoid cream and herpes medications over at my place again!

Real or faked? Does it matter?

Update:Twitter is tweaking their code so that people who are DMing can use either D or DM as the abbreviation for direct messaging.

No more dm fail. Alas.

Labels: app, twitter, web2.0

   posted by Sal Towse at  2:48 PM|| |

My peeps-who-tweet list grows and shrinks, depending on how full my twitterstream is.

Most people who are taken off the list are stored instead on MyDelicious with a /twitterfeed/ tag so that I can get to them and catch up on their tweets but not necessarily wade through five hundred tweets (total) every day. I mean, there was usually a reason they made my twitterfeed list in the first place.

Is it their fault they post in spurts and every four hours I can look forward to a series of nine tweets?

Well, yes it is their fault, which is why they're now a MyDelicious twitterfeed link rather than on my "real" twitterfeed. (Note to whoever may be fussing about me moving you off my twitterfeed: Unless your initials are TO, the aforementioned burst-tweeter isn't you.)

Facebook, though, seems more easily controlled. I can look at someone's updates or not. The updates from X don't overwhelm the updates from Y. I don't think I've ever defriended anyone at LinkedIn either. I did completely bail out of Friendster soon after the friends of friends of friends began including people I wouldn't want to have coffee with.

This article on de-friending brings up many issues but #6 ("De-friending can regress mature women into a high school gossip mob") takes the cake.

Labels: life, social networking, twitter, web2.0

   posted by Sal Towse at  6:54 PM|| |

As it says over there >>>>> my Twitterank is 14.52! (that tweet, btw, was generated automatically by Twitterrank and was a surprise to me) and before you get all like wow! Sal's Twitterank is 14.52! realize that the larger the number, the more tweet you are.

So, me ... not so much.

[n.b. to get a Twitterank, you have to giveup your twitter name and twitter pwd. Not a good idea if you use name/pwd elsewhere OR if you don't plan to change your twitter pwd in the next hot minute.]

Labels: twitter, web2.0

   posted by Sal Towse at  5:20 PM|| |

Election 2008 | powered by Twitter

For those who are easily amused. A Twitterfeed.

Twitter is pulling out all tweets that are election-related, mention Obama, McCain, Palin, &c.

The screen scrolls by with right, left, smart, not-so-smart, snarky, clever, clueless. Just like the American public, only in 140 characters or less.

Labels: election2008, twitter

   posted by Sal Towse at  1:10 PM|| |