Twitter Mosaic: Get Yours

Mosaic MugAfter two pretty cerebral hard core posts in a row I’d better have something fluffy, but in a geeky way. So here you go — A Twitter Mosaic. If you have significant friends at all it generates a pretty hefty chunk of HTML code to slap into your blog.

They will put a reduced number of avatars on a mug or a T-shirt for you if you wish. In case you are wondering, yes, on the blog the little avatars link up to friends’ profile, but I’m pretty sure that the T-Shirts and the mugs don’t work that way. Besides, I wouldn’t really appreciate people poking me in the chest to see if the T-Shirt graphic would reload to Hackszine’s profile or something. Apparently the order in which the avatars appear is somewhat correlated with the order in which these folks friended you, so the longtimers are at the top. It would be nice if you could prioritize them. You can, however, click on any you don’t want and it will just delete them and shift the rest up one and add the next one in line. I deleted all the o_O’s because they are boring looking. However that didn’t seem to alter the HTML code and there was no update button. So the o_O’s are still there. That’s either a bug or a GUI blooper.
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Map Your Tweeple (twitter friends)


This is a yahoo pipe that gets fed my twitter name, goes to the public twitter feed, finds my “friends” who have provided geographical locations, and uses that data to map them. Yahoo pipes are amazingly visual ways to build mashups. If you don’t want to build your own, not to worry. There are many many published pipes that you can just use, the same way you use RSS feeds.
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Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor

If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual.  Besides, any cook knows that the flavor  is in the fat.   Not useful but people like it better.   That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet.  Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant.  Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today.

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Hot Dorkage gets reviewed

Woot!   Social action!!!  Hot Dorkage got reviewed   on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews  I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for.    I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d . . . → Read More: Hot Dorkage gets reviewed