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Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr archive, both of it. Not to be...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:06:04 +0100

Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr archive, both of it. Not to be confused with this.

"Twitter has begun rolling out the ability to export your entire archive of tweets from the site:..."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:39:12 +0000

“Twitter has begun rolling out the ability to export your entire archive of tweets from the site: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/12/16/twitter-has-started-rolling-out-the-option-to-download-all-your-tweets/ The archive contains a JSON and CSV file.”

- Import tweets from Twitter’s new exported tweets files · Issue #1413 · ginatrapani/ThinkUp

Gnip, Twitter, and Archives

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:27:37 +0100

notational:

Social Data Startup Gnip Goes Deeper Into Twitter’s Past, Offers Full Archive Of Public Tweets
courtenaybird:

Gnip is announcing a new product today that provides access to the full database of public tweets from the beginning of time — or rather, the beginning of Twitter.

…The new product, called Historical PowerTrack for Twitter, has been in testing with customers including Esri, Brandwatch, PayPal, Brandwatch, Waggener Edstrom, Network Insights, Union Metrics. Moody says this data opens up a number of new use cases. For one thing, financial firms are developing trading algorithms that incorporate Twitter data, and they can now test those algorithms on data from the past — in other words, if they think they can use social network activity to predict of stock market activity, they now have a giant database for seeing whether that’s true. Moody says there are also academic researchers looking at the impact of Twitter activity on the Arab Spring.

“We fundamentally believe that social data is going to be in every application. We’re only at 1 percent of the journey.”

(via TechCrunch)
I can’t download my historic posts beyond the most recent 3,200, but Gnip can (presumably with Twitter’s full blessing) sell access to people wanting to use sentiment analysis for stock trading.

"In the Elizabethan era plays weren’t saved because only sermons and poetry were considered..."

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:22:06 +0000

“In the Elizabethan era plays weren’t saved because only sermons and poetry were considered literature.”

- Michael Lesk, chair of the Rutgers University Department of Library and Information Science, quoted in Our social-media amnesia at Reuters.

"I considered this idea: what if I were to shoot an entire year through the camera, date-stamping all..."

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:38:00 +0100

“I considered this idea: what if I were to shoot an entire year through the camera, date-stamping all of the images, but process none of the film until the year is over? What if I just throw the exposed films into a box in the fridge or something and leave it be until a year is up, then process everything and post select images in order?”

- Chris Butler outlining his plan for SECRET CONTAX: June 17, 2011 - June 17, 2012

Anti-Attribution Tumblrs: A Complaint

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:53:27 +0000

I’ve noticed a couple of Tumblr blogs recently that use images posted in the Text post type, rather than the Photo type. This is particularly annoying when you’re trying to determine image attribution.

Generally I run across them through ffffound. Here’s an example: it’s a nice picture, but I want to credit it more thoroughly than just linking to the blog on which everyone saw it. I head over to the Tumblr and open the archive page, and I get this:

This is useless for scanning for an image. Thankfully tools like TinEye exist, which let me find the actual site that hosted the original image.

Of course, Tumblr somewhat encourages other anti-attribution patterns: images being reposted to ffffound from people’s dashboards is one of the more obvious ones. Still, it’d be nice if people avoided adding to them.

Flickr Tip: Delving For Good Photos

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:01:00 +0000

It’s already the time of year when people look back and try and pick out the best of the year. If you’re inclined to do that with the photos you’ve posted to Flickr, here’s a good way.

The search function has three key features that make this work. Firstly, the “interestingness” (a somewhat arbitrary, but still useful, measure of how, well, interesting a photo is) is available as a criteria for sorting. Secondly, there are ways to filter by time (either by date taken, or by date uploaded). Thirdly, you can limit photos to your own photostream.

Putting that all together gives you a this URL: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&m=text&s=int&d=taken-20100101-20101231&w=me

The arguments, from right to left, make it search through all photos (that’s the q=, an empty query), in text mode (as opposed to tag mode), searching by interestingess, taken between the dates specified, and limited only to photos by “me” (which magically maps to the logged in user). If you’re tempted to find a best photo from those you’ve uploaded this year, why not use that as a starting point?

“Top People”, a Rank newsreel about crane operators,...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:05:28 +0100

“Top People”, a Rank newsreel about crane operators, complete with some gorgeous shots (like the woman looking out of her top-floor Golden Lane flat at a passing tower crane). (Again, via that Phil Gyford.)

ianbetteridge: If you’re creating a “digital time capsule”,...

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:49:43 +0000

ianbetteridge:

If you’re creating a “digital time capsule”, it’s best not to make it an application. There’s a lesson here for everyone rushing into application development for online media.