Todd's Old Blog

Category: Technology

  • Building an RT Twitterbot

    Creating a ReTweeting Twitterbot used to be easy. My colleague Peter Smith originally pointed me towards Tweetalert, a service which scanned Twitter Search for the hashtag of your choice, then retweeted the associated posts via your own Twitter account, or another you’d created for that specific purpose.  This is how the GCPEDIA and GCconnex Twitter…

  • Goodbye Google Buzz

    Another day, another social media tool I’m divesting myself from.  Why?  Well, on one hand, it has been as rife with privacy problems as Facebook.  In their rush to get the product out to market to as many people as possible, Google sacrificed the sort of quality control testing that comes with gradually released beta.…

  • Goodbye Facebook

    So, it’s a month to the day since I posted my most recent tirade against Facebook, but this time I’m writing to report that I finally kicked Mark Zuckerberg’s travesty to the curb.  Granted, there wasn’t much left there to delete… And that was the aspect that made it more difficult, actually. I didn’t have much…

  • It’s Your Job to Edit GCPEDIA: Add It to Your PLA

    I consider editing (and administrating) GCPEDIA a part of my job, and I always have.  If you read the wording of your job description, there’s probably some significant wiggle room for creative interpretation, provided that your primary product or goal continues to be produced or achieved on time. For example, do your duties specify that…

  • Classic Commercial: Star Trek & MCI

    The funniest thing about this commercial is how much these people loathe each other in real life. Time may never heal all wounds, but as you can see here, screen time and a paycheck can at least restore the illusion of healthy functioning.

  • Hootsuite Fail Page

    Hootsuite’s always been very reliable for me.  Here’s proof it can fail with the same grace and good humour as Twitter.

  • GCPEDIA Peer Helpers – “Official” Rollout

    Back in September of last year, sometime after I was already entirely swept up by obsessive compulsive wikignoming—grafting and pruning the site in a way I hoped would make it prosper—it occurred to me that a similar role should exist to help users grow and prosper.  I created the Peer helper category on GCPEDIA, made…

  • My Tweets about Twitter

    January 26, 2010 My love of #Twitter remains strong, provided I pause to shoot the noisiest bird out of my tree every once in awhile. April 28th, 2010 It’s pretty easy to miss important stuff on Twitter with constant, pesky interruptions like work and sleep. May 4, 2010 Every so often I discover / unfollow…

  • Product #WIN: Kudos to Sandisk; respect for the Sansa Fuze

    A lot of people write reviews for products they’ve used for a week. It seems to me that there’s limited value in that: kinda like the automobile manufacturers that struggle to get the J. D. Power & Associates Award for Initial Quality.  That doesn’t impress me.  How does the quality of the product and support…