• Darn Good Ideas

    Twitter Poet

    June 5, 2013 / 3 Comments

    I had to go back and take a screenshot of this tweet from last month. I liked it so much, and I want to be able to think of it and see it again.

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    Curiously when I first read it and liked it, I didn’t even bother to follow the author on Twitter. Odd, hmm? This just feeds my pet theory that it’s much harder to get followers these days than it was “in the good old days.” (not counting spam bots whom I speedily block)

  • App Reviews,  Good design,  Using technology

    instagram: the Visual Twitter

    June 4, 2011 / 4 Comments
    an instagramed photo of Joe's dumpster-dived globe. Our new nightlight!

    Are you all Instagram fans? It’s an app for sharing photos (and using interesting filters) on iPhones. I gave it a try a couple months ago, and didn’t quite catch on, but these days I’m addicted. There’s something very appealing about seeing tiny little snapshots of other’s daily lives. It’s my favorite app to check when I’m waiting for the T.

    If you’re on there, you can find me under girlpolish, and I would love to follow you back!

    postscript: Of course NYT wrote an article about it yesterday that I missed. Apparently there are 5 million+ users! I only follow 23…