Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
July 26, 2011
11/24/11 Update: It’s mostly back to Twitter for me. I’ll probably redesign this site sometime in the next year, but for the most part will not be actively blogging.
I am a bit irritated by the newly aggressive ad placement by WordPress.com. I have no control over that and would prefer no ads whatsoever, but WordPress charges for that. I will probably explore other hosting options if I do revive the site.
In the interim, I am more likely to share longer-form content on Google+. Go to my Google profile and put me in one of your circles for that stuff. You can also subscribe to my occasional public updates on Facebook, though I reserve friending for actual acquaintances.
Thanks for visiting.
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Tags: Blogs, Google, Tumblr, Twitter
March 13, 2011
Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor of The New York Times, turned his attention this week to the newsroom’s use of Twitter. He quoted from an e-mail interview with me, which I am posting in full here, with a few tweaks and links.
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Tags: Arthur S. Brisbane, Blogging, Brian Stelter, Clark Hoyt, Facebook, Hudson, news, NYT, Posterous, public editor, Reddit, Sully, Twitter, Twitter lists, YouTube
July 18, 2010
One July weekend, I had the opportunity to combine two of my favorite activities — riding my bike through Manhattan and visiting new coffee shops.
My family was traveling elsewhere, and New York had not yet fallen into the drippy hot torpor that has marked recent days. I rode down the west side a bit, diverted to to the Hudson River trail, then passed through TriBeCa, Chinatown, SoHo and my old East Village stomping grounds before chugging up the East Side — a loop of sorts.
I made a pass by La Colombe Torrefaction, but I had already tried beans from there via B. Koffie, so I decided to check out Kaffe 1668, one of the shops highlighted in The Times a couple of months ago.
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Tags: Antigua Los Volcanes, bikes, Clover, Coffee!, cycling, East Village, Facebook, Foursquare, Guatemala, Kaffe 1668, La Columbe Torrefaction, Manhattan, Novo, Plowshares Coffee Roasters, Posterous, SoHo, TriBeCa, Twitter
June 12, 2010
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Tags: B. Koffie, Birch Coffee, Coffee!, cold brew coffee, cold press, espresso, Ethiopia, Intelligentsia, Kenya, La Columbe Torrefaction, NYT, soccer, t, tweet, Twitter, World Cup, World Science Fair, Yirgacheffe
April 11, 2010
Updated April 21, 2010.
The world probably doesn’t really need another iPad review, does it?
There’s a glut out of them out there.
And I’m not a tech reviewer. I’m a gadget nut, so feel free to discount my enthusiasm by the appropriate percentage. After all, I did pre-order this thing sight unseen so it could be delivered on Day One.
So this post will be impressionistic, just some notes on my first week with the device.
First: It’s fast. Snappy. It makes the iPhone and the iPod Touch seem slow. It makes a Macbook seem slow.
Second: The battery life is amazing. You don’t even think about the battery. I plug it it in every night, and have used it heavily many days. It has never dropped below 50 percent.
Remarkable for an Apple product: It doesn’t get hot — unlike my Macbook Air, or my iPhone, which can get uncomfortable to the touch and sluggish with heavy use. I have often thought that Steve Jobs was trying to brand me with his products. No more.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple TV, Books, computers, iPad, iPad apps, iPhone Apps, iPhones, iPod Touch, iPods, iTunes, Kindle, Kindle for iPad, music, NYT, podcasts, Steve Jobs, technology, TiVo, Twitter
March 6, 2010
Before I get to the latest installment of my endless coffee quest, I must mourn the end of my brief reign as a Twitter list maven. At the start of this week, I made the mistake of using the latest crashy build of Firefox while playing around on the Tlists site with my lists.
Because of a glitch, several of my lists, including the Linkers list, which had 1,940 followers and was among the top Twitter lists, briefly became “private” and shed all followers in the blink of an eye.
Alas, after some consultation, there seems to be nothing Tlists or Twitter can do. (But I am grateful that the Tlists folks are trying to help with a prominent placement of my list on their home page).
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Tags: Coffee!, drinks, espresso, Stumptown, Twitter
January 30, 2010
I’ve been neglecting the blog for quite a while. It’s so much easier to Twitter, or post Facebook updates, or check in with Foursquare, that it’s hard to work up the head of steam it takes to write about coffees that have only mildly impressed me, or books that I haven’t managed to finish, or what have you. It’s the doldrums of winter, the eve of February, the shortest month on paper and the longest in the northeastern mind.
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Tags: Café Grumpy, Coffee!, espresso, Facebook, green tea, Twitter
December 20, 2009
I was too busy for blogging these many weeks, but I was drinking coffee, and so my record here will have a gap. There was a roast from Verve that was quite tasty but is no longer available, and I made it through a couple of rough weeks with the delicious Peet’s Holiday Blend, which my wife carried back from Los Angeles.
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Tags: Buddha's Brain, Café Grumpy, Chronic City, Coffee!, Costa Rica, drinks, espresso, Jonathan Lethem, NYC, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Rick Hanson, snow, Twitter, Verve Coffee Roasters, zazen, zen
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