Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

Moving Back to RSS from Twitter

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May 2, 2011

It is amazing that we would come full circle from where we were when we started with Twitter in January of 2009. When we began using Twitter, part of the appeal was as a real-time replacement for RSS reading. But, recently, we’ve returned to RSS feed reading as a much more reliable manner of...
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Organize your Workflow with Pinboard and Instapaper

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January 20, 2011

One of the hardest things to do in writing a blog is keeping up on all the developing news and keeping track of reference materials that might be needed for a story. Research is very important, and for the longest time, we neglected keeping our materials organized to the point we ended up with...
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Leo Laporte Learns the Value of Federation

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August 22, 2010
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Early this morning, famous podcasting personality Leo Laporte, Head TWIT over at the TWIT Network, posted on his Leoville blog a post titled Buzz Kill. Laporte had switched his microblogging over to the underappreciated Google Buzz, which he used to update Twitter. However, he discovered today, August 22nd, that none of his buzz posts...
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So You Want to Only Use One Microblogging Service

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July 11, 2010
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Last time, we discussed some of the things we'd learned about Status.net and the OStatus standard. Now, our understanding is far from perfect, but we keep trying to learn more. This is some of our attempt to summarize it.
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So You Want to Take Control of Your MicroBlogging

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June 27, 2010
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Image via CrunchBase If you haven’t heard of Twitter, you may have been living under a rock for the last few years. If you aren’t quite sure what it is, then you are not alone. People who have Twitter accounts aren’t quite sure what to do with them, and some people will disagree on...
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Editorial: Find Me a Twitter Client

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March 7, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Guru is the editor of the Gadget Wisdom blog and the voice of GadgetWisdom on Twitter. I have gotten addicted to Twitter. It wasn’t my idea. I got onto Twitter to promote the blog, initially, and didn’t think I would have much use for it. But like many Twitter has mostly...
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Twitter and IM Clients

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April 24, 2009
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Image via CrunchBase We have been using IM for years, and migrated over to Pidgin some years ago when we were still on Windows as Trillian Pro was not being updated regularly. So, yesterday, when we discovered a review of the Trillian Astra Beta, we thought we would explore the issue of clients for...
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Jumping on the Twitter Bandwagon

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February 8, 2009
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Image via CrunchBase After our colleagues at Flight Wisdom signed up for a Twitter account to help people follow their blog, we decided to see how it went for them. Within days of signing up, users started to flow in, although some of them were already readers. Not only that, but by following other...
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