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Links for Tuesday 24 August 2010

Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun’s logs: Least baffling description I’ve read. Phew. (via Infovore)
Why trust Facebook with the future’s past? — Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Twitter and Facebook are storing what will be our history, but it’s not accessible. (Which is why I have my own public archive of my Twitters, and rarely use Facebook.) (via Preoccupations)
OCAD - Graduate Studies - MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation: I hadn’t heard of this Master of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Interesting.

24 Aug 2010 at Twitter

07:48am: @hondanhon @katylindemann @ianbetteridge There must be a new iWork soon, surely... I keep putting off buying it until a new one. '09?
08:25am: I wonder why my hard drive is quite full then I come across things like the 10GB of old techno I downloaded just because it was there.
08:46am: @rooreynolds Not sure. I used to have to think a lot more about what to keep/backup/trash when my hard drive was only 40MB or 160MB…
10:24am: @joroach Imminent planned costs like that should have come up in your survey/search or something when you were buying. :(
10:28am: @katylindemann @joroach Presumably the council are the freeholder if it's an "ex-council" block?
03:30pm: A pleasant afternoon of flaneuring. Now off to the Heathrow to celebrate the return of her majesty.
07:39pm: Phew: it looks like I successfully upgraded @samuelpepys to use OAuth without having to understand OAuth.

Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun’s logs: Thanks for the description, very useful! A couple of suggestions……