Your Twitter Feed as Newspaper: A Look at the Tiny-Printer Trend. Thermal printers are a fast, cheap, reliable way to create mini paper documents.
What happens when you connect them to the network? No one knows yet, but it’s going to be amazing. We’ve already sung the praises of paper in general. Let’s sing the praises of thermal printers in particular. You’d know thermal printers as the things that receipts come from. Printer with circuits on display. “Recently, a few accidents of implementation gave more life to my tinkerings than I had originally intended.” Printer is a suite of tools that enable a network of servers to send beautifully laid-out content to a distributed network of printers. Where It All Started. Visualising the Twitter firehose with DataSift @ NetworksAreMadeOfString. In February of 2011 I saw a short video named Immaterials: Light painting WiFi by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen and something about bringing part of the technical world of bits and bytes, RF and EMR into some sort of physical manifestation resonated with me.
A little while later in June I seized the opportunity to be a part of the Operations team at DataSift and in the first few months we did lots of techy augmentations of a traditional nature such as installing our 42″ operations dashboards or installing a strobe light linked to Zenoss that warns us when the platform is unhappy (SMS’s just aren’t cool enough). As I was working with the dashboards and looking at the sheer volume and diversity of the data that comes through DataSift I started thinking of how this data could be presented in a way more engaging way and then I remembered that video. To achieve my goal I first needed a way to consume the DataSift data and drive the physical medium. Final Device: Documentation: What is SimplePie? A code library, written in PHP , intended to make it ridiculously easy for people to manage RSS and Atom feeds.
An easy to use API that handles all of the dirty work when it comes to fetching, caching, parsing, normalizing data structures between RSS and Atom formats, handling character encoding translation, and sanitizing the resulting data cool funny quotes. Free (i.e. no cost) open-source software, with a license more liberal than the GPL (BSD-licensed), that was built and improved over the course of years by people who have a passion for good software that makes people's lives easier. Well documented with a complete API reference, tutorials and screencasts for popularly requested uses, and details about the inner workings of the library. Reddit: How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force. Of all the sites that went dark on Wednesday to protest Congress’ misguided anti-piracy legislation, Reddit was the one I missed most.
Sure, there were a couple times when Wikipedia would have provided the perfect answer for my mindless Web searches (who invented the bidet?) , and I never like a day without BoingBoing, but Reddit occupies a unique position in my online diet. Though I visit the rollicking link aggregator a few times a day to find cool stuff on the Web, Reddit isn’t any better than the aggregators BuzzFeed, Hacker News, Techmeme, and Memeorandum in that respect. What’s different about Reddit is that it’s a real, vibrant community, one of the few big websites where the users have constructed an unmistakable moral and political philosophy.
6 Tips for Handling Breaking Crises on Twitter. Dallas Lawrence is the chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations and communications firms.
He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. You can connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. If the past year has taught us anything about reputation management in the social age, it's that the past year has not taught us anything. Time and time again in 2011, the same missteps and misunderstandings lead to the same predictably painful reputational outcomes for individuals, brands and organizations.
Despite widely discussed and accepted social media best practices, many of the most significant crisis poster children of 2011 failed to deploy the basic digital tactics necessary to cauterize potential threats before they metastasized into full-blown reputational disasters. Here are six Twitter crisis tips every communications professional should review in the New Year. iGoogle. Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011. News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning.
What were the Top 10 Most Awesome RSS & Feed Products of 2011? We offer our list below. Though some of these weren't born in the past year, all of them have made a big impact and are thoroughly awesome. Anyone with an interest in competitive knowledge work should be aware of and give some thought to these applications. We'd love to hear your thoughts on others in comments below, too, readers. 10. Fabien Penso's fabulous iPhone push notification app released a 3.0 version this year, but it's just the nice clean basics that make this one a winner. 9. iftt.