Tweet Nothings, Part X
I’m not sure if this is still worth doing now that third parties fill the gap, but here’s another batch of Twitter archives (see previously). I only started archiving them because I didn’t trust that Twitter would last, and maybe in the long run that’s still true. I’ve been using it mainly as a links blog anyway, and have posted many of those links here this year, but not everything has made it across. I couldn’t be bothered checking for link duplication below, but have omitted a few course-related tweets and some featured in earlier posts. Either way, there’s bound to be a link or retweet here worth a look.
RT @copyrightgirl: This is quite daft—is it a race to be the first to record?? Unintended consequences of #copyright law, via @techdirt §
RT @copyrightgirl: hmm RT @CopyrightLaw Techdirt: Access Copyright Admits That It’s Holding Education Hostage Unless Universities Pay Up §
RT @tedtalks: Today’s #TED: Creativity expert Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! §
Twitter turns all links into mystery meat, and instantly becomes less useful as a collective links blog, which is how I mainly use it. Bah. §
Excellent Victorian posters from #BleakOldShopOfStuff (via @MrJamesBachman) §
RT @britishgaming: “Up next: Are violent video games corrupting our youth? But first—have you seen Gadaffi’s bloody, beaten corpse? Look at it! LOOK AT IT.” §
@tomewing Don’t forget the many revisions of Iguanodon, C19 paleontology’s version of the Star Wars Special Editions. §
RT @linkmachinego: Disk prices double after flood—and could ‘double again’—need a hard disk or computer in the next 6mnths? get one ASAP §
RT @glynmoody: It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright “Every modern copyright policy becomes Internet policy”; great analysis §
RT @glynmoody: Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health whoops §
Are We Nearly There Yet? by @BenHatch—a great read for anyone who’s ever travelled with kids. Or been one. (His novels are great too.) §
Magnificent end to Poptimist by @tomewing, on streams, memes and their potential for music-like criticism §
Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas—The Independent §
Plumes of methane a kilometre across. The gig is up. §
@queens_hall Wow, I didn’t think the Ronettes were that bad. §
RT @stuarthoughton: A precise and well argued piece by @DeborahJaneOrr for you to print out and staple to your favorite welfare whinger §
RT @newsbrooke: The digital age and what it means for authors—all must tweet (via @KarolinaSutton) §
RT @glynmoody: $100 #OLPC tablet to debut at CES “Android and Linux operating system support”; sounds cool §
RT @mikko: US customs can and will seize your laptop or smartphone and ask for your password. It happened 5000 times last year §
RT @raharris: How digitally literate are you? Complete a UK-wide survey on digital literacy of researchers | @scoopit via @BSAPGForum §
Joining the #StopSOPA protest today at speedysnail.com in order to further my massive “corporate interests” (says MPAA’s CEO). §
RT @lmg_feed: On Stopping Reading Books §
If you’re unclear what’s at stake with SOPA/PIPA, this is pretty sobering: How UMG killed Veoh #StopSOPA §
Spectacular! RT @giagia: how IDIOTIC some companies are about copyright #sopa (via @Glinner) §
RT @tedtalks: Clay Shirky: Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea). §
RT @josiefraser: That’s not online!/@thatsnotonline: Library collections, archives & other information not accessible online §
RT @4b5: .@jackofkent is very, very good on blogging and media at #leveson ..watch here now §
RT @terrycavanagh: List of words containing “meow”: meow, meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner §
Tweeting is a risky business. §
RT @matthewbaldwin: RT IF YOU LOVE CLICKING BUTTONS §
RT @glynmoody: slovenian ambassador: Why I signed ACTA—amazing public apology—don’t miss (v @StopActaNow) §
RT @charltonbrooker: Proof the charts ain’t what they used to be §
RT @ArmyofDave: The Phantom Menace 3D. Mmm. Can’t wait to watch those committee meetings about trade embargoes LEAPING INTO MY FACE. §
@melissaterras at #digitalhss: huge changes in humanities practice in 20 years, but we’re bad at articulating them. §
Jane Ohlmeyer’s Wordle of 1641 depositions from Fermanagh at #digitalhss—my first name leaps out at me. #rebelliousnamesakes §
Survival rates of #digitalhss data could improve if copying wasn’t so politically constrained. Torrents of 1641 depositions? #openaccess §
@chrisspeed: companies land-grabbing concepts in digital age, rather than making them first. #digitalhss §
Oxfam saw 52% increase in clothing sales when they gave items a story (video clips of donor interviews). @chrisspeed #digitalhss §
Echoes of Michael Landy’s Break Down—inventoried his stuff, then destroyed it. But is it really gone? #digitalhss §
RT @suchprettyeyes: Lifespans of irregular verbs have a halflife proportional to the square root of frequency? Neat. #digitalhss §
books.google.com/ngrams #digitalhss §
Great talk by @erezaterez of erez.com #digitalhss §
bookworm.culturomics.org #digitalhss §
RT @weelibrarian: tweet saves Alan Turing papers §
RT @stevenpoole: Marco Arment, refreshingly: “I’m not a ‘curator’.” (And neither are you, unless you work in a museum.) §
RT @stevenpoole: “We fooled ourselves into thinking we owed random people the right to comment on our work literally on our work.” §
@comedy_nerd Peanuts: is there anything they can’t do? §
Great talk on MOOCs from @j_k_knox at #elearninged, esp. thoughts on institutional responsibility for student motivation, or lack of it. §
@consequently If you haven’t seen it yet, the Soane Museum, close to Holborn tube. One of my favourite lesser-known London things. § §
RT @consequently: .@speedysnail’s recommendation of the Soane Museum gets top marks from me. I now have loads of absolutely insane interior decorating ideas. §
RT @slackmistress: Everyone SAYS they want a fairytale wedding but when I show up and curse their firstborn suddenly I’m the jerk. §