{"id":1634,"date":"2008-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1634"},"modified":"2008-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"news-reading-new-tweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/news-reading-new-tweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"News Reading, New Tweeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I only managed one blog post over the christmas holidays. I did <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.johnjohnston.name\/\" title=\"John's Tumbelog\">tumble<\/a> 8 times, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/troutcolor\">post half a dozen links to del.ic.io.us<\/a> and do a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\" title=\"Twitter \/ johnjohnston\">fair bit of tweeting<\/a>.<br  \/><strong>I didn&#8217;t read my RSS reader at all<\/strong>. I was a bit busy putting together a non-educational site, incorporating flickr, youtube and blog streams, I wish I could use video and flickr on our school site in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I opened my reader and basically just marked all as read, I didn&#8217;t feel too bad as twitter had been giving me as much reading as I could deal with, lots of links for various edu (and other) bloggers and of course I subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotEduBlogs\" title=\"Twitter \/ ScotEduBlogs\">tweets from Scotedublogs<\/a> which kept me up-to-date with my fellow Scots. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d like to rely on twitter all of the time but it gave an interesting tilt to things and another tilt back tonight when I opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencommunity.co.uk\/\" title=\"Vienna\">Vienna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to have been and explosion of twitter tools and addons using the and one nice one is <a href=\"http:\/\/dcortesi.com\/2007\/12\/27\/twitter-stats\/\">Twitter Stats<\/a> this is a perl script which you can run from the terminal in OS X and a numbers template to paste the results into after the perl script copies them to the clipboard, here are my twitter stats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/2176275224\/\" title=\"twitter_stats by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2411\/2176275224_b29ca0f3bd.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" alt=\"twitter_stats\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coincidentally<\/strong> today my  class were doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=1778\" title=\"Sandaig Otters&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;communication  at our homes\">little charting of there own<\/a> surveying the communication tech they have at home as far as I recall this show a huge increase since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"thetags\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=blogging' title='Entries tagged with: blogging'>blogging<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/twitter\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=twitter' title='Entries tagged with: twitter'>twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/holiday\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">holiday<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=holiday' title='Entries tagged with: holiday'>holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Scotedublogs\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">Scotedublogs<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=scotedublogs' title='Entries tagged with: Scotedublogs'>Scotedublogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/chart\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">chart<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=chart' title='Entries tagged with: chart'>chart<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/2006-08-26_blogged_from_tm.png\" alt=\"Blogged from tm\" height=\"33\" width=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I only managed one blog post over the christmas holidays. I did tumble 8 times, post half a dozen links to del.ic.io.us and do a fair bit of tweeting.I didn&#8217;t read my RSS reader at all. I was a bit busy putting together a non-educational site, incorporating flickr, youtube and blog streams, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,336,335,50,26],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-chart","9":"tag-holiday","10":"tag-scotedublogs","11":"tag-twitter","12":"kind-","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-qm","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}