October 7, 2008
It’s like my entire life has been leading up to this moment…
The real winner of tonight's debate? ME! For managing to spread my "X loves Y like a basset hound love cheese" attempt-at-a-meme to an unsuspecting debate-viewing audience.
October 6, 2008
Twitter / groovylinks
I get annoyed with people who announce their every blog post in their Twitter feeds (if I’m interested, I’ll just subscribe to your blog). But curious to see if there’s a market for it, I’ve created a Twitter user which will announce new links on this site. Follow “him” to get notified.
September 25, 2008
Production Control Room
During a test run of Hack the Debate.
Our operators are standing by
This is either the Twitter-scanning nerve-center of the Current TV Hack the Debate coverage, or we're having a pledge drive.
September 23, 2008
Twitter / TweetTrak
Twitter’s “track” service (which texted you whenever a phrase was uttered) has been disabled for some time. Luckily, an enterprising soul has reimplemented it using Twitter’s search API, and it works a treat. Follow @TweetTrak to get started.
September 18, 2008
September 15, 2008
Current + Twitter = Hack the Debate
A little project that’s been going on here at Current Towers - During the presidential debates, we’ll be diving into Twitter and putting the *real* debate up on national TV in real(ish) time. (And who’s that handsome avatar halfway through the promo…?)
Ahh good ol’ Tricky Dick. #current
Screenshot from the Current TV Hack the Debate promo. (Words put into my mouth by persons unknown).
Current will be screening the US presidential debates live on TV, with relevant tweets overlaid in real(-ish) time. It promises to be a hell of an experiment (not least for our broadcast team!) First debate: Friday September 26th.
September 12, 2008
Hack Day Display
Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.
June 29, 2008
Fail Whale sculpture - a set on Flickr
Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!
May 19, 2008
Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter attention sp…
Digest of the most-favourited tweets, with a “webcock-free” twist. Some great examples of what can be achieved with 140 characters.
May 6, 2008
April 26, 2008
@TrackThis: Track FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL Packages using Twitter
Get DM’d on twitter (and thus on your IM, email or phone if you’ve got DM forwarding enabled) every time that package you’re waiting for moves.
April 22, 2008
March 24, 2008
Rod Begbie’s twitter conversations - Quotably.com
Clever attempt at threading Twitter conversations.
March 20, 2008
March 19, 2008
February 11, 2008
Commuter Feed
Crowdsourced traffic reports, via Twitter. Of course, there’ll need to be another site tracking all the accidents caused by folks texting accidents to this site while driving…

