Sunday, May 25, 2008

After testing out a few tools from the 140+ Twitter Tools post on Mashable, I decided to post my favourites so far:

Twitter Karma - Displays your followers and the people you follow on a single page, in a better format than Twitter provides.
Twitter100 - Displays all the people you follow and their latest posts.
TwitBuzz - Shows links posted to Twitter in a Digg-like interface.
Tweetstats - An amazing site that analyzes your profile and provides you with a wealth of statistical information about your tweeting habits. It even includes a tweet cloud!
August Zachrisson used GPS and a suitcase to make the largest drawing in the world. For someone so tech-savvy, I'm surprised that his site is all graphics. But whatever.

These are the kinds of artistic projects I like to see: ideas that really push the envelope of what technology can do, or that bend the expected uses of that technology. Who would think to use a parcel delivery service to affect a drawing on a world map?

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Mike Sacks takes pictures of his TV. I thought this was something that might get pretty old pretty quickly, but there are some good ones (Cheryl Tyler, Head of Hooters Girl Casting). I mostly like how it points out all of the garbage they put on TV that passes for news (Joe Winiecki - Forced to change shirt).

(Via Kottke)
Here's an inspired page in what I think is Russian, where individuals have photographed themselves acting out childrens' drawings. Delightful!