From the monthly archives:

November 2008

whither NewsJunk?

November 17, 2008

One of my mantras is to rely on others to filter my data in the social web, because the key to improving your signal to noise ratio is not to try and filter the noise, but actually to reduce your signal. That’s a lot harder than it sounds to do. But it’s made a lot [...]

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Backing up your tweets

November 12, 2008

Twitter: over one billion tweets served. Actually, it’s probably more than that, since the count is from GigaTweet, an external service and not an official count. If we do the math, that comes out to: 140 chars per tweet x 1 byte per char x 10^9 tweets = 140 billion bytes = 130.4 GB worth [...]

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TwiTip

November 3, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger fame has launched a new blog, TwiTip, aimed at introducing Twitter to new users. Darren always has an interesting and insightful take on blogging and so I think his insights will be worth reading even if you’re a veteran twitter user. Given how much I blog about twitter I can fully [...]

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