Twitter begins to communicate with their users

Today Twitter began to communicate with their users, which they are to be commended and congratulated for. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. There’s a long road ahead, and everyone’s going to learn a lot as we travel down it, and no doubt it’s awkard at first. Now we can […]

FriendFeed gets rooms, so does Scripting News

An interesting but mysterious new feature appeared today in FriendFeed, rooms, and of course we have to try it out.
I created a room for Scripting News. What shall we use it for? I have no clue. Help me figure it out.
Something just jumped out at me. Is this the Digg-in-a-Box that I was asking for […]

Monitoring Twitter’s down-ness

I’ve been thinking about writing an app that would check Twitter every ten minutes to see if it’s down or up, and track it over time. Today, being a particularly bad day for Twitter, I had a bit of time to actually write the app.
Screen shot.
When it’s been running for a few days I’ll put […]

Her political career is over

This time Hillary Clinton has gone too far.
Strike 1. Positioning Barack Obama as the black candidate after the South Carolina primary.
Strike 2. Refusing to say Obama is Christian, not Muslim.
Strike 3. Saying white voters go with her, in desperation, after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Strike 4. Suggesting she should stay in the race because […]