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1rick

  1. 'Hack the Cover' by @craigmod: craigmod.com/journal/hack_t… / I hardly read any of this post yet, but am blown away, as usual, by the form. about 4 hours ago via Tweet Button
  2. RT @eyeseast: Built a blog to teach myself new dataviz tools. I made this with #D3js and @voteview data bit.ly/KbNTZP about 13 hours ago via Echofon
  3. @wjchat Q3 If reports on a story are fragmented/varying there's always a need for someone to curate and offer big picture. #wjchat about 14 hours ago via Echofon in reply to wjchat
  4. @Adamukun Yeah, I miss alphabet magnets... about 16 hours ago via Echofon in reply to Adamukun
  5. Oooh. New Radiolab... radiolab.org/2012/may/21/ #nowplaying about 24 hours ago via Echofon
  6. @jcyzc I'm sure I can find some other appliances to sticker up. :) 6:18 AM May 23rd via Echofon in reply to jcyzc
  7. Finally found a place to put those Apple stickers that come with Macbooks: i.imgur.com/A9d1i.png 6:12 AM May 23rd via Echofon
  8. @jinki1 Yeah, I'm a little stingy with gmail creds usually. I trust 'em for now though. 9:36 PM May 22nd via Echofon in reply to jinki1
  9. @jinki1 I use it for RSS to Gtalk alerts. Sort of a real-time alerts system, which works pretty well. 9:30 PM May 22nd via Echofon in reply to jinki1
  10. @hmatsuuchi Shocked to find at the bottom that he's written a book about it. Really didn't see that coming. youtube.com/watch?v=L_mrNQ… 9:11 PM May 22nd via Echofon in reply to hmatsuuchi
  11. So awesome. RT @imagethief: Next Media Animation on the 三非 foreigner crackdown, feat. .@ChinaGeeks. nma.tv/china-antifore… 5:02 PM May 22nd via Echofon
  12. @jonrussell Even Forbes on the Windows Phone story now: forbes.com/sites/timworst… having picked it up from The Register. 7:58 PM May 21st via Echofon
  13. @sayzlim Mostly for mmd reference links & footnotes. I can't recall if the snippets are from @ttscoff or @macsparky... macsparky.com/blog/2010/10/3… 8:47 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to sayzlim
  14. @sayzlim I guess one could optionally bring in some personalization via Text Expander. I suspect I enjoy those distractions too much... :) 8:36 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to sayzlim
  15. @sayzlim I have yet to try iA Writer. Looks very sharp though. 8:26 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to sayzlim
  16. @jonrussell but their figs for past two months won't be baked for a while yet. But they were 'surprised' about the 7% claim. 8:24 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to jonrussell
  17. @jonrussell Yeah, I still tend to prefer IDC, and got in contact with them for that one, as they had an analyst predict WP overtake iOS... 8:23 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to jonrussell