It’s nice to see that John has taken my ropey old AppleScript code to display tweets with Growl and improved upon it here, Growling Tweets - John’s World Wide Wall Display, so that it doesn’t need to use Vienna (why didn’t I think of that?).

And then as if by magic, Pete (I think) shares his Python version to do the same thing.

One of my pet hobby horses (I have a stable full of them) is about how the presentation of dialogue alters what kinds of dialogues we have. The simple version of this might be, “Aren’t most forum tools totally rubbish?”…. or “No wonder twitter visualisation projects get so much attention!”

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