Tuesday, October 25, 2011
How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home - super easy
via gizmodo.com
Can someone please try this? It's so simple to set up. (I would but I don't have this type of buzzer).
How Link Placement Affects Clicks on Twitter
Takeaway: Put your link between the beginning and the middle of the tweet. 
via ReadWriteWeb by John Paul Titlow on 10/24/11
Sometimes, effective optimization can come from places you didn't expect, and the only way to find out is by analyzing a large set of cold, hard data.
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That's exactly what Dan Zarrella does for a living. The self-proclaimed "social media scientist" at HubSpot examines large datasets from sources like Twitter and Bit.ly and then publishes some of his findings.
Recently, Zarrella discovered that where the link is located in a given tweet can actually have a big impact on how many people click on it. Tweets that included the link about a quarter of the way through the tweet got clicked the most, even though it's common practice to include the link at the tail end of a tweet.
To figure this out, Zarrella took a random sample of 200,000 tweets and used the Bit.ly API to figure out the click-through rate on each one. He cross-referenced that with where the link was located in each tweet and came up with the heat map below.
Is Occupy Wall Street turning into a Phish Fest?
via gawker.com
Is the Drum Circle About to Kill Occupy Wall Street? Anyone who's been to Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan to check out the Occupy Wall Street encampment leaves thinking one thing: Jesus Christ those drummers are annoying. And now, those drummers—whose constant, irritating presence has earned the wrath of the local community board, as well as most of the occupiers—may bring down the movement itself. Such is the claim of a letter sent to literary magazine n+1, which is putting together an issue devoted to Occupy Wall Street. According to the letter-writer, "[a] trusted friend and respected activist,"
Monday, October 24, 2011
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