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"first" - Mat Morrison

"Hmm. Yes. There's something that happens to people around about the time they leave school (where they feel safe) and when they go to university (where they don't.) They stop using words like "use" and start using words like "utilize."From there it's a short, slippery path to "three-pronged strategy." The only thing that's meaningful about the "three-pronged strategy", I feel, is the "prong."" - Mat Morrison

Oh dear. Oh dear. - Mat Morrison

"So, so wrong. Less "slightly insidious" more "Darth Sidious"" - Mat Morrison

Quentin Stafford-Fraser's port of wget replaces ftp and curl for me. Don't know why -- it's not like I couldn't just use the ftp command... - Mat Morrison

Long before the vikings got here, we were part of the Roman empire; I suspect THAT's why we keep pretending that we're mediterranean. - Mat Morrison

Long before the vikings got here, we were part of the Roman empire; I suspect THAT's why we keep pretending that we're mediterranean. - Mat Morrison

Oh FFS. This is what I hate about advertising. Once in a while something so banal and trivial as this will come along and expose all the OTHER ads (Apple, Guinness etc.) that I fell for. - Mat Morrison

Oh FFS. This is what I hate about advertising. Once in a while something so banal and trivial as this will come along and expose all the OTHER ads (Apple, Guinness etc.) that I fell for. - Mat Morrison

I keep *wanting* to like Blender. But it's impossible to use. Perhaps this time I'll get to grips w/ it? - Mat Morrison from Bookmarklet

Working Mums, part-time jobs, work from home, flexible working, job share - Mat Morrison

np. mad shizzle - Mat Morrison

"V. pleased to see this; and do recommend that others go visit, but would have been nice to see a link (or at the v. least a credit) if this were indeed the case. Link-love should go both ways" - Mat Morrison

Christmas is fast approaching. Thanks to Sam Michel, I know now what people will be getting. - Mat Morrison

Christmas is fast approaching. Thanks to Sam Michel, I know now what people will be getting. - Mat Morrison

Scotland: "Fail" - Mat Morrison

Seems inevitable, really. Would love to know the details. - Mat Morrison

The story behind the Boxxy/4chan civil war - Mat Morrison

Geek code humour always raises a smile chez Morrison - Mat Morrison

Geek code humour always raises a smile chez Morrison - Mat Morrison

Aargh. Is it me or is the world a slightly worse place because of all this? - Mat Morrison

Aargh. Is it me or is the world a slightly worse place because of all this? - Mat Morrison

V v v clever :^) - Mat Morrison

V v v clever :^) - Mat Morrison

via Jez Kay - Mat Morrison

yeah. works on the level of the individual. You try scaling that to a level where a marketing person would sit up and notice. - Mat Morrison

...such as trying to embody an encoded demographic within a 'persona' of a twitter account? - David Bausola

For example: http://demographicreplicator.blogspot.com/ - David Bausola

"Pleased that what you took away from my presentation was a healthy dose of scepticism re: identifying “influencers”. You’ve only to read some of Duncan Watts’s papers (I recommend the one on Big Seed Marketing) to realise that the way we’ve worked in the past (”influencer marketing”) is increasingly collapsing under the pressure of social media. I’d argue that it hasn’t totally gone away — but simply overlaying an old-world model on a new-world phenomenon probably isn’t going to solve the problem. There are (very roughly speaking) two things that we need to look at when we are investigating how things spread: the network or substrate in which they spread, and the content that is being spread. There’s a good deal of research into the latter part (although I’ve rather focussed in the past on the former, I still maintain a keen interest here.) The “London Twitter Festival Ends in Chaos as Crowd Clashes With Facebook Enthusiasts” works for a variety of reasons (some of which are explored..." - Mat Morrison

I've been working on a miniscule version of this -- where the samples were (by their v. nature) identical to the population (i.e. I can look at a small social graph in some detail, but couldn't extrapolate from that.) But this dataset (2.7m users, 10m tweets, 58m edges) is huge and robust. BUT (big but) Twitter has requested that the data be pulled down, and we await re-publishing with bated breath and clenched toes. There are lots of wonderful warnings about how to handle this data in which Hadoop and Pig are mentioned (http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/) I hadn't heard of either of them; my pathetic attempts to kludge solutions out of perl, UCInet and pajek look smaller and smaller each day. - Mat Morrison from Bookmarklet

This is a fascinating first stab at an algorithm to create a PageRank-like measure of influence for Twitter based on (duplicated) reach, number of people followed (the more people you follow, the lower the probability that you'll read a given tweet) and a mysterious "constant" probability that you'll retweet anything you see. Possibly interesting in terms of Purefold in that the author explicitly refers to "AIs that have Twitter accounts" in the comments. Do read the comment stream -- much virtue contained therein. (via Taylor Davidson: http://www.taylordavidson.com/hello...) - Mat Morrison from Bookmarklet

Not sure that this is -- in fact -- real. Or even achievable. But relevant to my interests (and the talk I'm giving in an hour. Damn damn damn) - Mat Morrison from Bookmarklet

"Yep. May well represent the future, but sure as hell doesn’t represent the present very well. Have you actually tried to navigate using one of these things? Ignoring the everpresent danger of walking under a bus, the iPhone’s compass just isn’t sensitive enough…" - Mat Morrison

"Brilliant stuff. I’ve recently been through and culled 2/3rds of my Facebook friends because – as one friend said – everyone needs somewhere they can tell fart jokes. A v. smart colleague of mine, Chris Nee, wrote an article on The Presentation of Self In Social Media in which he discusses the way in which our public life in social media is making us more self-conscious about how we present ourselves and our relationships with others. Clearly, this isn’t the case here." - Mat Morrison

"Brilliant stuff. I’ve recently been through and culled 2/3rds of my Facebook friends because – as one friend said – everyone needs somewhere they can tell fart jokes. A v. smart colleague of mine, Chris Nee, wrote an article on The Presentation of Self In Social Media in which he discusses the way in which our public life in social media is making us more self-conscious about how we present ourselves and our relationships with others. Clearly, this isn’t the case here." - Mat Morrison

I've just been at a conference w/ a whole load of Indie filmmakers. This is not an easy message to put across when everyone's talking rights and DRM - Mat Morrison

This is what my Yahoo! Pipes and perl stuff is ALL about. - Mat Morrison

Manage petitions and events through Twitter. - Mat Morrison

A fascinating look at the difference between old-school "technology a replacement for social function" recommendation algorithms and "social software recommendation systems." Mostly looks at the UX/UI requirements, but worth reading for the big ideas behind it. - Mat Morrison