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		<title>A fistful of gloves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I often find solitary gloves on my walks (never a pair). This is a random collection of them, which I&#8217;ll add to occasionally for no particular reason. Refresh the page to change the order.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Address to Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Burns Night tonight. I&#8217;ve dredged this up from my files for 2002: Address to Burns Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face Great poet o’the chieftain race Aboon them a’ ye tak your place: Wordsworth, Shak’speare, Scott. Yon Sassenachs cannae cut your pace – Ah love them no’ a jot. In Alloway ye wis a [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>What gets you Twitter followers? Part 3 of 3: content</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the final part of my short series on mining data on around 50,000 Twitter accounts, as recorded by Twanalyst. Previously: Part one looked at user profiles. Generally, the more you fill out your profile (description, avatar, background image etc), there seems to be a correlation with increased number of followers; and high-status description terms [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>What gets you Twitter followers? Part 2: friends and frequencies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been analysing data from 50000 Twitter accounts, recorded by my Twanalyst tool (tracks your Twitter stats over time, and analyses your tweeting style and personality). In Part 1, I looked at how people&#8217;s profiles might correlate with their number of followers, and a few trends emerged. This time I&#8217;ve been looking at the relationship [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>What gets you Twitter followers? Part 1: profile usage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Running Twanalyst has given me access to large amounts of data, which I&#8217;m slightly-too-addicted to crunching. Inspired by this post at Social Media Today, which analyses the popularity of Twitter users according to the words they use in their tweets, I realised I have a large database of people&#8217;s Twitter biographies. Do the words people [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>What&#8217;s it all about, Alfie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A new look at the publisher&#8217;s lunch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As usual, everyone&#8217;s talking about how publishing can survive, and how to make money on the internet. Paul Graham has written an excellent essay, Post-Medium Publishing, where he observes that it is wrong to think publishers sell &#8216;content&#8217; – rather, they sell a means of distribution, and prices are dictated by that (ie, historically, the [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Sterling work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are some enjoyable web comics about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace here, here and here &#8211; even includes a coupla Gaussian copula gags (and for aficionados of the game of Horse!: representational horse!).<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Fighting the day job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow. My Twitter personality test site, Twanalyst, has been used 150,000 times since I launched it just four days ago! It&#8217;s all pretty overwhelming, especially as I&#8217;m  trying to concentrate on a shedload of ordinary work at the moment&#8230; Anyway, thanks to everyone who&#8217;s used it and helped spread the word. I&#8217;m genuinely working on [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>The author did it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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