2013-05-13
Lupe Fiasco and Philosophy Sunday
Three posts from Lupe Fiasco’s Twitter account on Sunday:
A Marxist theory today:Actual Revolution which affects wholesale societal change is only seen via technological advancement i.e. industrial
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) May 12, 2013
Hey guys #LF Mgmt here. Gotta love his lively way with twitter but sadly he’s gonna be taking a break to focus on other things.
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) May 12, 2013
The #LF twitter will stay active but will focus solely on giving you guys info on upcoming #LF events, music touring and media.
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) May 12, 2013
The full series of posts between these three, including responses, is available at Exquisite Tweets.
2013-04-10
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Early day motion 1190 - TWITTER AND THE DETECTION OF CRIME - UK Parliament (via iamdanw).
“Total number of signatures: 2”
(via iamdanw)
2013-03-20
Who Has John’s Gait?
CIA CTO: you can be 100% identified by your gait. Which can be measured by 3-axis accelerometer, like in your phone or Fitbit. #dataconf
— jonathanstray (@jonathanstray) March 20, 2013
CIA CTO Ira Galt at GigaOM’s Structure:Data event, quoted by Jonathan Stray (via Shanley, who posted something similar).
2013-01-09
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Behind the scenes: when the Storm topology detects that a query has reached sufficient popularity, it connects to a Thrift API that dispatches the query to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, and then polls Mechanical Turk for a response. ”
2012-12-17
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2012-12-06
Instagram photo-rendering issue
Users are experiencing issues with viewing Instagram photos on Twitter. Issues include cropped images. This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration, and as a result, photos are being displayed using a pre-cards experience. So, when users click on Tweets with an Instagram link, photos appear cropped.
For some strange reason there’s nothing about this on Instagram’s blog.
2012-11-26
Regarding City Comparisons
When I shared my previous post on Twitter, I got this reply:
@blech Alternatively you could compare and contrast goo.gl/maps/egbsT and goo.gl/maps/7kO5d
— Paul Hammond (@ph) November 25, 2012
OK, fair enough: it’s possible to choose places in London that look car-centric and places in San Francisco that don’t. Point taken.
I’d still defend my comparison. Firstly, Paul’s first location isn’t exactly in central London; it’s in Neasden, by the North Circular’s junction with the M1- a good ten kilometres from Charing Cross. By contrast, the AT&T car park is only two and a half kilometres from the Ferry Building.
Secondly, scroll just a little from the Brent Cross car parks, and you’ll find the two shopping centres, terraced housing, and playing fields. China Basin is close to the ball park (obviously) and there are buildings on the other side of the waterway, but the area to the south is remarkably sparse. Similarly, density drops rapidly from SF’s financial district (especially to the north), while Soho is pretty representative of central London.
San Francisco is a very different city to London. It’s newer, it’s less dense, and it’s much smaller. Maybe that makes my initial post a bit too obvious. That said, personally, I’m still amazed that something like twenty acres (to use the American measure) of land so close to the city’s centre can be turned over to a car park - moreover, one that mostly sits empty.
2012-10-15
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Alexis C. Madrigal, in the Atlantic: Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong.
Perhaps this crystallises why I’m upset with the state of the internet at the moment: I’m following everyone else in looking at the corralled data stacks, not at the edges where, it seems, many people’s experience of the network still is.
2012-09-25
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Now Eggers has a new mission: He wants to take over a mid-Market building near Twitter’s humming HQ and turn it into a showcase for artisans and craftspeople. He envisions a space filled with more than 100 producers of handmade wares, including shoes, skateboards, guitars, and clocks.
“Things you can touch and hold,” he says. “I like the idea of having a place for the makers of physical things, as a hedge against a technology-only downtown corridor. The more we go digital, the more we hunger to get back in touch with real things and how they’re made.”
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