Way back in July of 2009, the first version of the twitteR package was published by Geoff Jentry in CRAN. Since then it has seen 28 updates, finally breaking the 0.x.y barrier into 1.x.y territory in March of 2013 and receiving it’s last update in July of 2015. For a very long time, the twitteR… Continue reading
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Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
If this feature was in Mountain Lion Developer Previews prior to revision 4, I didn’t notice it, but you can now tweet directly from the Notification Center “pane”. You first need to make sure said feature is enabled in System Preferences (note the use of the “old” Notification Center icon in the preference pane icon… Continue reading
Feudal Japan’s Haiku Clubs A Pre-cursor of Modern-day Twitter?
I recently finished watching “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire” [ Netflix | PBS | Amazon ]. It’s a three-part documentary that centers around the 16th & 17th centuries (where a vast majority of my favorite samurai movies are set). In the third part there is a segment on the four-tier class system. It goes… Continue reading