Blogging/Social

Twitter Powers of Ten

March 25, 2011

Time-Based Profiling Before any of this will make sense, I ask you to imagine doing a survey of your local shopping mall or other busy commercial shopping district.  You want to know where people congregate, where they spend most of their time.  Is it in a particular shop, in the food court, or in some [...]

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Twitter 2010 by the Numbers

January 2, 2011

Throughout 2010, I recorded Twitter messages (tweets) from Twitter’s “public timeline“.  I took these snapshots every two minutes, around the clock.  At the end of the year now have 4,973,728 tweets. The first message, at 12:00:08 EST January 1st, 2010, was: “2009 will be remembered at [sic] the year the music died.  Michael left us [...]

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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2009

January 1, 2010

The 2009 wall calendar is now tossed in recycling bin, and I look to 2010 with renewed energy and dedication.  But I did want to take once last parting look at 2009, from the perspective of this blog’s server logs. Top Blog Posts Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability (May 2009) ODF Lies and Whispers (June [...]

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Planned Migration of An Antic Disposition

December 16, 2009

Sometime over the next two weeks I’ll be migrating An Antic Disposition over to WordPress, introducing a new visual theme, and relocating to a new hosting company.  This will allow some additional capabilities that I look forward to enabling down the road. My plan is to preserve all of the comments during the migration, not [...]

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Being social

February 28, 2009

By nature I am an introvert. I don’t schmooze. I don’t “network”. Like Sartre, I am firmly in the “Hell is other people” camp. However, since social and collaborative computing is large part of what we work on at IBM, and we’ve recently signed deals with LinkedIn and Skype, I’ve decided to jump in with [...]

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One Year and One Hundred Posts Later…

July 31, 2007

I’m not one for excessive self-reflection. Like the Heresiarchs of Uqbar, I think that mirrors are abominable. However, since I have simultaneously reached my 100th blog post as well as my one year anniversary with An Antic Disposition, I feel that an inward glance is both appropriate and timely. Only 100 posts in a year? [...]

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Document Format Punditry

January 23, 2007

Rick Jelliffe, Mr. Schematron, who blogs for O’Reilly, recently announced that he had been contacted by Microsoft to see if he would be interested in a contract to edit the Office Open XML (OOXML) and Open Document Format (ODF) Wikipedia pages. As Rick says, So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple [...]

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Surviving the Slashdot Effect

January 8, 2007

You wake up one morning, check your email and what do you see? Fifty comments in your moderation queue awaiting approval. Hmmm… You then check your server stats and see that 500 people have hit your blog in the last 5 minutes. Hmmm… You check the referral’s and see that they are all coming from [...]

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Some short notes

December 3, 2006

I’ve updated the blog to use Google’s new “beta” Blogger software. I haven’t noticed any glitches, but please let me know if anything seems broken. They’ve updated their feed to support Atom 1.0 which is great. Previously they served up Atom 0.3 which I then updated to 1.0 via this mechanism. Also, the new Blogger [...]

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Site Updates

July 24, 2006

If I had know I was going to be Groklaw’ed, I would have spruced up the place first and prepared for company! Thanks to all for the overwhelming expression of interest in these topics. This blog is generated by Blogger, and published via ftp to my site. This blog is still quite young and you [...]

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