{"id":661,"date":"2009-08-24T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-08242009\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:53:05","slug":"biweekly-links-for-08242009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-08242009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 08\/24\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/2009\/08\/18\/pointless-babble\/\">Pointless babble \u00c2\u00ab Stephen Fry on Twitter<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The clue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the name of the service: Twitter. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not called Roar, Assert, Debate or Reason, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Twitter. As in the chirruping of birds. Apparently, according to Pears (the soapmakers&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u201c certainly their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153study\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is froth and bubble) 40% of Twitter is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pointless babble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, (http:\/\/is.gd\/2mKSg) which means of course that a full 60% of Twitter discourse is NOT pointless babble, which is disappointing. Very disappointing. I would have hoped 100% of Twitter was fully free of earnestness, usefulness and commercial intent. Why do these asinine reports jump onto a bandwagon they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand and why do those reporting on them relate with such glee that a service that was never supposed in the first place to be more than gossipy tittle-tattle and proudly banal verbal doodling is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153failing to deliver meaningful commercial or political content\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Bollocky bollocks to the lot of them. They can found their own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enterprise oriented\u00e2\u20ac\u009d earnest microblogging service. Remind me to avoid it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/13\/amplifying-on-the-pcr-amplifier\/\">Amplifying on the PCR Amplifier \u00c2\u00ab G\u00c3\u00b6del\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lost Letter and P=NP<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent explanation of how the polymerase chain reaction lets us make many copies of a DNA strand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/monday-master-class-how-to-schedule-your-writing-like-a-professional-writer\/\">Study Hacks \u00c2\u00bb  How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointless babble \u00c2\u00ab Stephen Fry on Twitter &#8220;The clue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the name of the service: Twitter. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not called Roar, Assert, Debate or Reason, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Twitter. As in the chirruping of birds. Apparently, according to Pears (the soapmakers&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u201c certainly their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153study\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is froth and bubble) 40% of Twitter is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pointless babble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, (http:\/\/is.gd\/2mKSg) which means&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-08242009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 08\/24\/2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}