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"You are correct; Harris did not reverse engineer the algorithm per sé. He just figured out a way to write a program that automatically generates tweets that look a lot like the Horse's, whereas I think a lot of imitation accounts are done by hand. I, for one, had never heard of a Markov chain." - Andrew Phelps

"What about it?" - Andrew Phelps

"It's tricky. They're not publicly listing stations yet because not all stations who have agreed to carry the program will do so on its debut date (today/this weekend), and (I'm guessing) stations might have agreed to carry one episode but not all of them, or they're waiting to hear how it lands in other markets, etc. (I find most public-radio program directors are pretty conservative about new programming, especially in large markets.) The stations carrying TED so far, according to NPR, are: WNPR, WUKY, WLPR, WHYY, KUOW, WRVO and WVTF Radio IQ" - Andrew Phelps

"It's tricky. They're not publicly listing stations yet because not all stations who have agreed to carry the program will do so on its debut date (today/this weekend), and (I'm guessing) stations might have agreed to carry one episode but not all of them, or they're waiting to hear how it lands in other markets, etc. I find most public-radio program directors are pretty conservative about new programming. The stations carrying TED so far, according to NPR, are: WNPR, WUKY, WLPR, WHYY, KUOW, WRVO and WVTF Radio IQ" - Andrew Phelps

"Agreed on all points, Saddam." - Andrew Phelps

"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/..." - Andrew Phelps

"I don't know what to tell you, Donal Murtagh. The audio had worked before." - Andrew Phelps

"I might know where the disparity lies. NPR boasts hundreds of member stations but that list includes repeaters. So, because KPBS in San Diego repeats its signal on KQVO in Calexico, NPR counts that as two stations. KCRW in Santa Monica has three repeaters, so it counts as four stations. Now, NPR could argue that it's a fair way to count stations because those are *markets* served by member stations. For example, Calexico would not otherwise be served by public radio if not for KQVO. But it's an "old media" way of counting, because it depends on the technical limitations of terrestrial radio. Michael Marcotte?" - Andrew Phelps

"Mike, where are your numbers coming from? NPR has more than 960 stations as of fall 2011 (as I wrote Monday, quoting from NPR PR). Now, not all of them carry NPR programming, and far fewer of them produce news and information." - Andrew Phelps

"OMG you're right, I totally forgot to do research." - Andrew Phelps

"Oh, and the modal popups! Let me view DMs, user profiles, etc., without blocking the rest of my view." - Andrew Phelps

"My major remaining frustrations are with UI, which is really important when you're staring at an app all day. TweetDeck is meant for maximum efficiency, but the latest client still has a lot of inefficiency * You can't view a column that is partially off-screen, as with "old" TweetDeck. You just get a big blank space. So on my 1920x1080 iMac, I can see five columns in new TweetDeck, whereas I could see six columns on old TweetDeck.* You can't smoothly scroll across columns with a scroll bar. You must use the forward/back navigation, which triggers an animation and advances the *whole* page, one at a time.* The design is less dense, which I suppose is more readable, but it's harder for me to glean important information at a glance. In old TweetDeck, you could see the connections in retweets at a glance because the photo of the retweeter is overlaid over the original tweeter. In new TweetDeck, a line of text says "Tim Carmody retweeted you" and displays the original tweet underneath...." - Andrew Phelps

"The goat isn't that weird, though, it's just dirty." - Andrew Phelps

"Thanks, Vincent—fixed." - Andrew Phelps

"Immaculate urban retreat, strong BSC competitor. I would switch to VIM today if I weren't locked in to a Boston Sports Club contract, simply because VIM requires no contract and is cheaper than BSC.…" - Andrew Phelps

"More like David Boeri, please." - Andrew Phelps

"Not sure I can explain what happened in my brain there. Yadamsuren did find Digg to be a common starting point for news readers in her 2009 research; the site was a lot more relevant then." - Andrew Phelps

"pinteresting" - Andrew Phelps

"You have good taste, then.  :P Third Coast is great. Of course, their site features material submitted to Third Coast, whereas Audiofiles tries to cover numerous different sources." - Andrew Phelps

"Tim, we're depending on the community to help us do exactly that. I encourage people to submit good radio no matter where it's made." - Andrew Phelps

"I don't think there will be a fee to use the Zeega software, as the code will be made available open-source." - Andrew Phelps

"Oops, yeah, that was a mistake." - Andrew Phelps

"That's a whole other piece. In this context, Shapins was talking about noncommercial use. This project could challenge conventional notions of fair use, which are very muddy and tend to be more restrictive for visual media than for text. I don't know of any plans to restrict the software to noncommercial use. I would think copyright matters are the creator's concern." - Andrew Phelps

"It's a good point, Bryan Murley. We could have written about Zeega much sooner, too. But I got to see and use a real piece of software yesterday, so it ain't vaporware. (I also see a lot of stories about things that people are planning but that don't exist yet.) I expect we'll cover these guys more in the coming months." - Andrew Phelps

"Its!" - Andrew Phelps

"Paddy, because public media is all about the metric system! Actually, no, it was a mistake. Thanks for pointing it out." - Andrew Phelps

"I find the constant, seemingly random, and utterly erroneous 502's infuriating." - Andrew Phelps

"But it would be an interesting experiment for newsrooms." - Andrew Phelps