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By: BlinkGeo » Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong Tuesday Link Karma - 01-15-2008

BlinkGeo » Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong Tuesday Link Karma - 01-15-2008 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:32:55 +0000

[…] if you’re in Portland, you may want to check out the Pulse of PDX on Twitter [via Silicon […]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:20:58 +0000

I think this is a great idea. So much so, in fact, that I put up a pulseofpdx stream on our blog. http://www.witigonen.com/pulseofpdx/ It uses the Twitter API and paginates at 50 posts and retains them, so there’s an archive - starting from Jan. 13 at 6:51, when I did the first run

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:10:03 +0000

@ahockley You’re right, if you’re already on Twitter, and follow most of these people, you might not get much out of it.

I think the real value comes in discovery - people who want to find other Portland people to follow, or, in my case, when you want to listen to the PDX conversation without following lots and lots of new people (I try to keep my follow list on Twitter down to people I’ve actually met/have a relationship with).

Think of it as a river of conversation that you can jump into and out of at any time.

Oh, and I do know it’s having some hiccups, and I’m working on them. Thanks for being patient!

By: http://brooksjordan.myopenid.com/

http://brooksjordan.myopenid.com/ — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:50:39 +0000

Very cool. I don’t follow everyone in Portland on Twitter, so an aggregated feed that includes my stuff, too, works great for me. Nice work.

By: http://ahockley.myopenid.com/

http://ahockley.myopenid.com/ — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:27:19 +0000

It’s an interesting use of RSS and a nice mashup of multiple feeds. I do wonder how much value it will be for someone like me (or you) who is already following most of these folks already.

And it’s quite cool that Josh and Scott set the whole thing up via public twitter conversations.