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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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May 15

The Social Media Revolution

Get it? Got it?

Tags: Social media Facebook Twitter tech
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April 19
Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared: Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month. 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.) Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API. Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day. Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet. Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.

Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats

Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared:

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
  • New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
  • 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
  • Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
  • Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
  • Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
  • Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
  • Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.

Tags: Twitter stats tech statistics
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March 30
Foursquare: It's the Twitter of 2010

2008 was the year of Facebook.

2009 was the year of Twitter.

I predict 2010 will be the year Foursquare makes it’s mark as an established part of the social network furniture. (That’s of course if Facebook doesn’t outsmart them with by launching a compelling location-based bolt-on.)

Check these stats out.
Tags: Foursquare Twitter Facebook tech stats
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March 16
via The New Yorker

via The New Yorker

Tags: Twitter Facebook tech fun
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February 27
Seems there’s huge growth in tweets but not in new users via http://blog.twitter.com/

Seems there’s huge growth in tweets but not in new users

via http://blog.twitter.com/

Tags: Twitter tech charts
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February 12
So true! via ilovetypography)

So true!

via ilovetypography)

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Twitter Is Still Growing Rapidly

Twitter Is Still Growing Rapidly

Tags: tech Twitter charts
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February 10
Google Buzz launches Taking it for a spin now. It’s like Twitter for the masses.

Google Buzz launches

Taking it for a spin now. It’s like Twitter for the masses.

Tags: tech Google Google Buzz Twitter
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December 29

Updating Facebook Relationship Status at the Altar

Also sending a tweet: http://twitter.com/TheSoftwareJedi/status/5925126890

via YouTube At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar

Tags: Facebook Twitter tech fun wedding
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November 25
Dilbert comic strip for 11/24/2009

Dilbert comic strip for 11/24/2009

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November 19
Who Tweets? More black Americans than white. More women than men. More over 30’s than under 30’s. 1 in 5 Americans online Tweet. Portrait of a Twitter user: Status update demographics | Pew Research

Who Tweets?

More black Americans than white. More women than men. More over 30’s than under 30’s.

1 in 5 Americans online Tweet.

Portrait of a Twitter user: Status update demographics | Pew Research

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November 15
OK, let’s Twitter your weight. Feel better? Some tech things I just don’t get. Like this very cool bathroom scale. It’s beautifully designed, it’s digital, has built-in wi-fi so it can send your weight to your router and upload it to a secure online weight tracking service. That all sounds perfect for geeks like me who like to track things. But their latest new feature just has me wondering: Tweet your weight. I mean, really, who would want this? Is this just tech for tech’s sake? Picture the scene: Woman walks into bathroom, sees the scale and avoids stepping on it in case she’s picked up weight. Scale fail. Or she steps on it because she’s feeling confident that she’s lost some and waits for the reading… eeek… she’s 1kg up… quick take the batteries out of the scale… unplug the router… unplug the internet… switch off the power… a mad scramble as the faithful device delivers the message to the whole world via Twitter. Here’s a sample Tweet: http://twitter.com/Withings/status/5563892617 Their website: Withings - Withings - The WiFi Scale

OK, let’s Twitter your weight. Feel better?

Some tech things I just don’t get. Like this very cool bathroom scale.

It’s beautifully designed, it’s digital, has built-in wi-fi so it can send your weight to your router and upload it to a secure online weight tracking service. That all sounds perfect for geeks like me who like to track things.

But their latest new feature just has me wondering: Tweet your weight. I mean, really, who would want this? Is this just tech for tech’s sake?

Picture the scene: Woman walks into bathroom, sees the scale and avoids stepping on it in case she’s picked up weight. Scale fail. Or she steps on it because she’s feeling confident that she’s lost some and waits for the reading… eeek… she’s 1kg up… quick take the batteries out of the scale… unplug the router… unplug the internet… switch off the power… a mad scramble as the faithful device delivers the message to the whole world via Twitter.

Here’s a sample Tweet: http://twitter.com/Withings/status/5563892617

Their website: Withings - Withings - The WiFi Scale

Tags: Twitter design tech articles
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November 13

The realtime web is here, now.

At just after 5pm I tweeted this tweet:

Twitter / Steve Mathew: Google Chrome OS To Launch

At 5:19pm a Google Alert (http://www.google.com/alerts) pops up in my inbox alerting me to my tweet.

No big deal? OK, get this: This means that in the 18 minutes in between, Google indexed my Twitter account (and all 79 million other Twitter feeds) found something new; indexed it into their search DB (try searching for this - it’s there!); then their Google Alerts service picked up the new entry in the Google search DB; scanned the list of alerts I and others have; found a match on “steve mathew” and fired an email message to me!

All this in less time it could take you to make a good cappuccino and drink it. And while it was doing this for me, it was doing it for millions of other folks too.

Did I mention, none of that cost me a cent?

Tags: Google Google Alerts Twitter realtime tech articles
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November 1

Good Morning Tweets

This is a funky eye-candy rendering of “good morning” tweets from around the world. The Green blocks are early tweets, orange blocks are around 9am and red tweets are later morning.

Oh, BTW, watch it full-screen!

GoodMorning! | blprnt.blg

Tags: Twitter tech visualisation
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October 10
Twitter Folllow Decision Flow Chart I guess I use this logic too.

Twitter Folllow Decision Flow Chart

I guess I use this logic too.

Tags: Twitter tech charts
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