{"id":2491,"date":"2009-11-03T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2009-11-03T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:34:10","slug":"this-is-starting-to-make-a-little-more-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/this-is-starting-to-make-a-little-more-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"This is starting to make a little more sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning, Twitter has had me somewhat befuddled. The 140 character limit seemed &#8211; well, limiting. I have settled into checking my feed a couple of times a day and I do pick up some useful links in this fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The new &#8220;lists&#8221; feature sounded interesting and I immediately created a list, but again I was uncertain what to do next. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/11\/02\/twitter-reveals-more-lists-power-with-a-widget\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> explains a use of lists that would seem to have some potential. Generate a list likely to offer useful information and use the activity as a feed within another application. For demonstration purposes, I have inserted the feed from my &#8220;ParticipatoryWeb&#8221; list here. It would be more useful in the sidebar, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/widgets.twimg.com\/j\/2\/widget.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  new TWTR.Widget({   version: 2,   type: 'list',   rpp: 30,   interval: 6000,   title: 'Participatory Educational Applications',   subject: 'Participatory Web List',   width: 250,   height: 300,   theme: {     shell: {       background: '#ff96e7',       color: '#ffffff'     },     tweets: {       background: '#ffffff',       color: '#444444',       links: '#b740c2'     }   },   features: {     scrollbar: true,     loop: false,     live: true,     hashtags: true,     timestamp: true,     avatars: true,     behavior: 'all'   } }).render().setList('grabe', 'particicpatoryweb').start();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_2491\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"2491\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning, Twitter has had me somewhat befuddled. 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The new &#8220;lists&#8221; feature sounded interesting and I immediately created a list, but again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/this-is-starting-to-make-a-little-more-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is starting to make a little more sense<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_2491\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"2491\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-microblog"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":23,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zo8Q-Eb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}