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  • twitter for curmudgeons and noobs

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    After holding out for a couple of years, I’ve become a full-on twitter convert. I wasn’t avoiding twitter on principle or anything. I just couldn’t understand why twitter was remotely interesting to anyone, or what it could possibly add to my life. Now that I’ve been on board for little while, I don’t get hung…

  • 2 ways to monitor buzz with Yahoo! Pipes

    In my last post, I mentioned that you can use Yahoo Pipes as a buzz-watching tool. Today I made three short videos to illustrate how it’s done. As the title of this post suggests though (and as I also discussed in my last post), there are two different strategies for monitoring buzz: searching and curating.…

  • The Data Visualization Palette

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    I might expand this into a larger article at some point, but for now it’s just something I decided to cobble together for a quick post. Thinking about data visualization was a big part of my job at Scout Labs, and this represents my palette for expressing data in picture form. Since color consists of…

  • Configuring mail.app for Gmail

    In the latest version of mail.app in Leopard, some of the fields have moved. I had some trouble sending mail because I was used to the older version, and I couldn’t find the field for setting the SMTP port and authentication. Anyway, I have it up and running now, so I figured I’d post some…