Monthly archive for April 2008

Twitter Clouds

Check out Tweet Clouds – new app which uses the Twitter API to create a tag cloud based on your tweets, optionally suppressing @s and removing stop words.

Here’s mine (click to see full size):

Twitter Cloud

I wonder how much this changes over time, or how far back they are able to grab tweets.

Pecha Kucha Boston 4




Pecha Kucha Boston 4 poster

Originally uploaded by brettstil

Pecha Kuch is coming up on April 10th, 8pm, at Harvard Graduate School for Design.

I’m hoping to make it over there after Our World Digitized at MIT

Clay Shirky on Colbert Report

(via BuzzMachine) comes this video (just under six minutes) of Clay Shirky being interviewed on the Colbert Report talking about Here Comes Everybody.

As you might imagine, Colbert has some difficulty with the “who is paying them?” notion.

Good fun for a Friday afternoon.