I often advise people to do nothing for a time; I believe it gives the brain time to organise its thoughts.
We are part of an industry that is addicted to enthusiasm, to getting things done, and discovering the new, but sometimes the right move is stopping and putting this world on hold. You need to learn how to build quiet moments of nothing as a measure of balance.
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New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher
Like text messages, the constraints inherent in the tweet medium inspire creativity. Chris Messina, who documented the hashtag syntax, comes up with a new character-saving idea: the slasher or slashtags. A slash followed by a compact vocabulary to help metadata. The first three “words” in this vocabulary are via, cc and by.
First, I’ve decided to migrate from encapsulating my metadata in parentheses to using a slash delimiter (”/”), which, for shits and giggles, we’ll call “the slasher”. This saves you ONE character, but hey, those singletons add up!
A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
Gruber attempts the impossible.
This pattern attempts to be practical. It makes no attempt to parse URLs according to any official specification. It isn’t limited to predefined URL protocols. It should be clever about things like parentheses and trailing punctuation.
Twitter Starts Charging in Japan
Twitter’s Japanese partner, Digital Garage, is running an experiment in Japan where it will allow Twitter users to charge others to read their updates. Twitter acts as the middle man and takes a cut of the charge—reportedly 30%—with the rest going to the charging Twitter user. It looks like Twitter will offer both subscription and pay-per-tweet options.
This is a classic information broker approach, so what kind of users will take up Twitter’s brokerage offer? With Twitter’s broad reach, low priced subscriptions could provide good returns. Running this experiment in Japan makes sense, as the Japanese are more used to paying for web content than people in the western world. TechCrunch lists a few more reasons why this has more chance of working in Japan. In the west, it might make more sense to charge the account owner, rather than the follower, and provide premium tools of some kind.