Crowdsourcing Caltrain Status to Twitter

July 29, 2009 – 7:23 pm

There’s no official Caltrain twitter feed, so Ravi Pina created a service for people to post status on trains and the scarce bike cars to a shared account. Now Caltrain’s participating in it instead of starting their own feed. [ via San Mateo County Times ]

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#wtf?

June 4, 2009 – 7:25 pm

And here I thought camping bots were annoying.

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Undesigning the Emergency

March 18, 2009 – 11:09 pm

Rough notes from Benjamin Bratton’s talk on design and terrorism at the 2009 ETech conference. In particular, he discusses the role of Twitter during the recent Mumbai terrorist attack. I wasn’t there to see the talk, but several folks were burbling about it on Twitter.

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Second Life Twitter

March 27, 2007 – 8:54 am

Twitter in Second Life uses a Rails proxy. [ via Yoz Grahame ]

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