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PoBoy Twitter Tracker 0.1: A small Python script to collect follower counts

At work, one of the things I have to do is keep tabs on a number of our Twitter accounts. Nothing spectacular, but with 50-ish accounts to keep track of, it gets to be a lot of overhead. So I automated it!

Woe to ye who enter here

Woe to ye who enter here

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Twitter Tracker

Yet another Michael Morisy journalism blog

In addition to here and the IT Watch Blog, I'm now blogging at MuckRock, a site dedicated to web-enabled citizen journalism tools. I'll be writing about, er, citizen journalism, freedom of information laws, and any other little thing that strikes my fancy.

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Apple Censorship

First they came for the bikinis ...

Or rather, the lack thereof. A major German publisher, presumably in Apple's ranks of the exempted (a "well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format," as they put it to the Times), is pushing back on Apple's suggestion that they tone down their racy content.

Devil Dog

Yes, this photo was Photoshopped. Actually, Photoshopped Mobile since I did it on my Droid. But it wasn't that altered, which is slightly terrifying.

False Idols


Danc over at Lost Garden recently wrote a great essay about "manufactured" gaming heroes, the public faces marketing teams come up with and trot out to promote a new product.

It's a great read, not the least of which it could be applied so much more broadly:

False Idols

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