December 2009
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Updated: How Twitter can improve Trending Topics →
I wrote a few months ago how Twitter can improve their Trending Topics by allowing users to delete uninteresting topics from their respective lists. I’ve updated the post with more information as well as a link to the Twitter company blog detailing their recent efforts to begin to alter the way Trending Topics are built (on their end) and used (on our end)
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How Twitter can improve Trending Topics
Twitter’s 10 Trending Topics are a great way to jump into conversations that are already well underway. They’re also a great way to find out about the big news that Twitter users are talking about, blogging about and putting their unique spins on. The next step that Twitter needs to take with the Trending Topics is allowing users to clear any topic from the list that they are not...
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The App Store's Holiday Effect
(Source: Incase Designs) MobileCrunch is reporting that the App Store is breaking records this holiday season, doubling its growth from November to December. Apple, not coincidentally, has also sold record amounts of iPhones and iPod Touches in the past few weeks. So now what? We’ve got to fill them up, right? App sales have also soared alongside hardware sales. According to TechCrunch...
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The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You I’m... “I promise you, one thing is never going to change. And that’s our mission....”
– Jim Lehrer’s rules of journalism (via Daring Fireball) (via femmebot) (via soupsoup) 3 tags
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“If volumes keeps growing, even Verizon couldn’t handle the iPhone by itself...”
– The Apple Blog - Is AT&T to Blame for Poor iPhone Experience and Is Non-Exclusivity the Answer? This is the obvious solution. Spread the data out over four networks and users can have their iPhones and use them too. 
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“The data seem incontrovertible: AT&T, while meeting 4,000 percent growth in...”
– AT&T Takes the Blame, Even for the iPhone’s Faults Ries and Trout, authors of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, place AT&T perfectly with their description of Law #4: The Law of Perception. To paraphrase Ries and Trout, a company or product’s perception by the public is more of a... 4 tags
Wanted: an RSS reader
I’ve come to realize that I need to get my RSS feeds together somehow but there’s so many options to choose from! Help me out, would you? Which RSS reader do you use and why do you like it?
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“Unlike Britannica, where each entry is scrubbed, checked, and labored over by...”
– Chris Anderson - The Long Tail 3 tags
WatchMatt Taibbi on The Colbert Report talking about Goldman Sachs People have called Matt Taibbi the next Hunter S. Thompson. I disagree. Taibbi is a damn good political and investigative reporter, however. I used to really dislike Taibbi but the past few months have swung my opinion the other way. The man’s doing a great job in a world of so much “journalism” that most of it...
Almost halfway done college...where does the time...
I remember when I was in elementary school, when a year was an eternity. I remember when a 40 minute period of French would drag on like a bad month does now. Somewhere in the past few years I went from 16 to 20, from a high school to a college sophomore. What happened to the days in between?
RTD Mobile Bus Times featured on The Huffington... →
The good people over at The Huffington Post Denver featured my app among others from Colorado in a spread of Colorado’s best iPhone apps! Click through and vote for RTD Mobile Bus Times, even if you’re out of state. I’d really appreciate it!
Busy, busy week
Prepping for finals and working on covert projects. Announcements to come.
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Find me on foursquare →
I’m really getting into Foursquare and I’m not sure why. It’s a lot of fun and that’s enough for me. If you use Foursquare, send me a friend request. You can see where I am and what I’m doing in Boulder, if you’re so inclined.
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How Programmer/Journalists Craft Their Own Study... →
My next project, starting in a few weeks. Who the hell says journalism is dying?
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