{"id":454,"date":"2008-05-28T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/twistori-is-whats-so-beautiful-about-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:45:42","slug":"twistori-is-whats-so-beautiful-about-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/twistori-is-whats-so-beautiful-about-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Twistori is what’s so beautiful about the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been insanely busy the last couple of weeks (business is good) and just haven’t had time to write anything. Rest assured though, I’ve been bookmarking a few things to post about. And more importantly, the site I’m passing along in today’s post will make up for my recent absence.<\/p>\n

Last night I was catching up on Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur’s net@night<\/a> podcast while burning the midnight oil plugging away on some code. As I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, I absolutely love it whenever you can get a peek into the “hive mind” of the internet and simultaneously get a glimpse of both the macro and the micro of what a community is thinking. On episode 52 Leo and Amber discussed something that I knew I had to check out:<\/p>\n

Twistori<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot:
\n\"Twistori<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweet Jeebus, this thing is cool.<\/p>\n

What it does is scan the latest posts on Twitter<\/a> for each of those six words on the left of the screen. Then it just displays those posts in a continually updating feed. It’s mesmerizing to watch. Some of the posts will be hilarious. Some will be deeply personal and serious. Looking at this evoked a bit of the same emotions I had the first time I saw PostSecret<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just thought this was exceptionally cool and beautiful.<\/p>\n

Oh, and they even made a screen saver<\/a> out of it. (I think it’s Mac only, though.) What’s especially nifty about the screen saver is that I have a dual monitor setup, and it will start the feed in different places for each monitor. So I may have “love” on one screen and “hate” on the other. And come on, that’s just totally wickedly cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been insanely busy the last couple of weeks (business is good) and just haven’t had time to write anything. Rest assured though, I’ve been bookmarking a few things to post about. And more importantly, the site I’m passing along in today’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[78,211,220],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}