I had a funny joke about design but the client revised all the funniness out of it.
— Chris Riebschlager on Twitter.
Twitterbelle
Web app by Poeks that provides a list for any Twitter account of the users they most often favourite. Seems I’m a big fan of the Gruber family. Would be better if it linked to the favourites from each person on the list too. (via John Gruber)
My friend Steven Johnson wrote Time mag’s Twitter cover story. And went and got himself on the cover.
However, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable.
— Biz Stone about a “small change” on the Twitter blog. What?! As Jeffrey Zeldman points out, “discovering people, topics, and conversations through friends’ @ replies was one of the joys of Twitter”. This is a terrible decision: happy for it to not be the default setting, but at least retain the option. Pretty sure the feedback on this one will be deafening.
Airbag listened to the community and is switching TwitShirts to an opt-in model. Good call. A side note on attribution from Renaud gives the flipside of the argument.
So, Is That Really Christopher Walken on Twitter?
Asked and answered. (via Simon Willison)
That’s What
Creative use of Twitter’s API by Zac White to track all status updates that were replied to with the phrase “that’s what she said”.
It is not only that this law denies the accused any due process, it is that it stipulates a penalty that no court would impose in adjudicating a copyright complaint even if infringement were proven.
— Russell Brown with a backgrounder on section 92(A) of New Zealand’s soon-to-be-enacted new copyright legislation that will require internet service providers to summarily disconnect the accounts of users even accused of repeated copyright infringement. Twitter users are blacking out their avatars on social networking sites to protest the law, which they believe contravenes the Bill of Rights.
How Twitter Was Born
Dom Sagolla recounts the history of the game-changing social network that grew out of the failure of podcasting startup Odeo, Inc. A fascinating read. (via John Gruber)
Picasa for Mac. Dear god. I did not see my buddies die face down in the mud for this.
— Neven Mrgan on Twitter regarding this.
