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  • Comments on a paper (at http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0812.1045) about social interactions on Twitter, with a reminder for studies of such networks (including blogospheres): "Just because the data is there and “easily” available doesn’t mean that they actually represent the offline social interactions that we are ultimatley interested in studying. Social network data no matter how novel are still proxy data at best."
  • Photosynth (mentioned in a previous post) gets its first major workout, covering the moment of President Obama's inauguration, combining photos and perspectives. [Requires Silverlight]
  • An alternative top 10 list of French twitterers, including descriptions of the twitterers and their behaviours.
  • Following the Wikio rankings for blogs, a potential resource for twitter rankings (allows for search by location, for example a ranked list of twitterers in France: http://twitter.grader.com/index.php?Action=TwitterUsersByLocation&Location=france)
  • Last.fm visualisations around listeners of specific artists, fan behaviours and fluctuations, and genres.

on Twitter

  • woah. latest copy of time off, inside back cover ad features, amongst others, john taylor of duran bloody duran #theuniverseisgoingwrong 1 hour ago
  • that said, OMD > Duran Duran 2 hours ago
  • trying to clean up citations and sync refs + pdfs btwn computers - stay with zotero and use dropbox for pdfs, or use mendeley (+ dropbox)? 1 day ago
  • well that booking experience was a lot less painful than last year. just more expensive. (but, british sea power! twice!) #piafexcitements 2 days ago
  • time to give #piaf all my monies again perthfestival.com.au 2 days ago