Is social media awareness just a fad ? I don’t think so.

Over at Ad Age, Simon Dumenco has an article about him being helped by a bright young spirit who does social media for Sprint and tries to solve his billing problem.

Simon seems to think that this is nice, but won’t last because, really, in the end, those bright young spirits will burn out and . . . → Read More: Is social media awareness just a fad ? I don’t think so.

Changing from feedparser.py to urllib & simplejson

With all the outages of Twitter recently, my back end system that retrieves the information from twitter was going haywire. Things kept going wrong, tweets were not retrieved, the works.

I initially coded this backend using feedparser, thinking that this code could be user later on to get rss feeds from other sites. It was . . . → Read More: Changing from feedparser.py to urllib & simplejson

#NMBS twitter analysis for the last 30 days.

A picture says a thousand words, they say. So here is one that shows how many tweets there were for #nmbs the last 30 days. For those of you outside Belgium, the nmbs is the flemish name for the Belgian Trainroad company. #SNCB is the french name for the same company.

(I pulled this graph . . . → Read More: #NMBS twitter analysis for the last 30 days.

Sparklines are cool !

Recently I was looking to add some graphics to my python CherryPy application, and I discovered sparklines.

Sparklines are small graphical displays of numerical data that help you to get a timeline view. Their size makes it easy to add them in phrases or to compare different graphs quickly. Below are some examples:

This . . . → Read More: Sparklines are cool !

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