Category: Twitter

Useful Links: Peer to Peer, Bill Gates, EVs

Needed: Peer to Peer Twitter (or did Google get it backwards?) at Rare Pattern raises some interesting questions.

Bill Gates: The Most Important Climate Speech of the Year is a TED Talks reported on at WorldChanging. Here’s a teaser. I don’t see the video on TED.com yet.

. . . he acknowledged the only sensible goal, when it comes to climate emissions, is to eliminate them: we should be aiming for a civilization that produces no net emissions, and we should be aiming to live in that civilization here in the developed world by 2050.

Obviously, that’s a big goal. Because he is the world’s biggest geek, to explain how he plans to achieve that goal, Gates put up a slide with a formula (which we can call the Gates Climate Equation):

CO2 = P x S x E x C

While were on the energy and environment, check out New Material Could Act as Both Battery and Body of EVs. That’s some cool technology.

Twitter lists of Women in Tech

I saw this post on Twiangulate at TechCrunch. Looking at Erick
Schonfeld list of who in tech he triangulates with, it occurred to me that he’s only listening to men in tech.

If the men in tech are only listening to the men in tech, it’s no wonder they can’t find any women in tech when they want to host a conference and need some diversity in the speaker’s roster.

Several people offered up their lists of women in tech (or people in tech) on Twitter. There are women worth listening to on these lists. Check them out.

If you have a good Twitter list with women in tech, please drop it in the comments. Thanks.

Useful Links: Accessibility, Valentine’s advice, Google Buzz

Tools for Conducting and Accessibility Review is an excellent summary by Angela Colter of the tools you should gather and use when doing an accessibility check. Read the comments, too, as some additional tools are mentioned by Jared Smith from WebAIM.

The couple who hold the record for the longest marriage are answering questions about romance on Twitter for Valentine’s Day. Married in 1924, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher are willing to share their tips for keeping the romance alive from their Twitter account at @longestmarried. Send in a question, they’ll pick 14 questions to answer. Don’t ever assume anything about older people and what they can do with technology, you’ll probably be wrong. And by the way, it’s an insult to say something is so easy your mom or your grandmother could do it.

Okay. So what are you thinking about Google Buzz? Is it great or terrible? Will it make life easier or more exposed? Is combining all your information streams into one a good idea? Talk to me.

Useful Links: Microformats, HTML5 Mess, gender issues, accessibility conference, CSS spirites, Twitter in class

Microformats Workshop is the slides by Emily Lewis from the Workshop Summits event. Outstanding presentation, excellent slides.

SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess is a discussion about HTML5 and related issues among Sitepoint’s Kevin Yank, Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems  of the CSSquirrel web comic.

whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success from apophenia is a response to Clay Shirky’s Rant About Women. Read the rant and all the comments before you read what apophenia said.

California Web Accessibility Conference in February is a Knowbility event. That means it will provide you with the best possible accessibility training available anywhere.

CSS Sprites is an online app that will take your images and generate a sprite and the code to make it work. Nice time saver.

Using Twitter to Facilitate Classroom Discussion is about a history class. How could it be used in a web dev or web design class?

Useful Links: Making money, tweethearts, woman domesticated

Your dream is under attack from Copyblogger talks about making money online. It relates what I talked about in this post: The Value of an Affiliate Link.

Are women running the Twitterverse? It’s men’s names we see on the “people you need to follow” lists. But Vanity Fair says America’s Tweethearts are really the big news.

Woman Domesticated at the Onion is, well, a piece from the Onion. But compare the photo in Vanity Fair with the photo in the Onion. Once the ladies get their own trench coats, they aren’t ever going to return.

Useful Links: Backchannel, adoption rates, Scrunchup

Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome has some thoughts about Twitter in the backchannel at LeWeb 09 in Paris. His ideas are a little different from some of those I’ve mentioned previously in posts about the backchannel. Give a listen. There’s talking on the phone while driving, there’s texting while driving, and now there’s video while driving, Pirillo style.

Matrix: Social Technology Adoption Curve Benefits—and Downsides from Jeremiah Owyang compares technology adoption rates with success in the social media world. Very interesting categories and opinions. He offers three suggestions that I think sum it up for those who want to make the most of social media for a company. Especially significant are “Be a Category Ahead of Your Company” in terms of adoption and “Track the Category Ahead of You.” Or, to quote myself, Keep up with what’s changing and learn how to use those changes to achieve your goals.

Issue #4 of Scrunchup is available. I’ve mentioned this new magazine already, but if you still aren’t turned on to it, this is your final clue. Become a reader of Scrunchup now.

Useful Links: Textbooks by Sony, Ads by . . . you, A mashup of youness

Blyth education, a Canadian high school, announced that they will replace textbooks with Sony Readers. When U.S. schools tried to do this with the Kindle Reader, they were hit with accessibility lawsuits. Be interesting to see how it goes with the Sony Reader.

The Medium is No Longer the Message–You Are is an article at TechCrunch by the co-founder of socialmedia.com. The article itself is interesting, but the real significance behind it is what is happening to advertising at socialmedia.com. You should check out what this company is doing. Advertising will never be the same.

Post and Read via Twitter API combines Twitter with WordPress. The Twitter app Tweetie will be the first app to provide you with the ability tweet directly to your WordPress blog. This article puts me in mind of Posterous: My New Social Media Addition. Posterous offers a life streaming mashup of everything you post from everywhere. In some situations I can see a lot of value in these efforts to combine social media into one big bundle of youness, but I also think there are times when streams of information are best kept separate. What do you think?