Crafting a Useful Message in 140 Characters or Less * Be Clear * Be Direct * Be Selective * Be Informative * Be Timely * Be Consistent * Be Tactful # Be Clear ## Use complete phrasing as much as possible Most followers will forgive you for changing words like 'to' to '2' and 'your' to 'ur,' so long as the rest of message is effectively conveyed. Avoid this practice unless absolutely necessary--which in truth can be quite often. The more it is obvious that without making the ...

> My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012! Join me This testimony via tweet was just one of hundreds of thousands of people who made their 2012 New Year's Resolution to learn how to write code. This one person, however, just so happens to be be NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ...

Video streaming by Ustream Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard held a press conference May 2nd to announce edX. edX is "a joint partnership to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learner ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 04/19/2012 - 12 00am

Timezone US/Eastern

The 140 Characters Conference Syracuse will be taking place on April 19, 2012 in Schine Student Center, on the campus of Syracuse University.

Our very own Remy DeCausemaker will be giving a talk at 3 15pm entitled ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 04/14/2012 - 12 00am

Timezone US/Eastern

BarCamp Rochester is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. BarCamp Rochester is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. All attendees should give ...

Here is the link to my github repo: Github # Probably versus Maybe - // Play the background music + // Play the background music if sound is supported if (soundIsSupported()) { su.play(sources, 0, 156000, globalVolume, false); } @@ -150,14 +150,15 @@ function soundIsSupported() { var a = new Audio(); var failures = 0; + for (var i = 0; i < sources.length; i++) { ...

This week for me has been all about outreach. I truly enjoy the role of storytelling, because I get to participate with the FOSS Community in a different way than committing patches to repos (not that I don't enjoy coding, I'm just not quite as good at expressing my thoughts in python as I am in HTML ;) In the land of FOSS, attribution is the coin of the realm. It is the oil between the gears and pistons. Giving credit where credit is due is the simplest default state of many open licenses and i ...

I am happy to follow up my last open shift post with a much more delightful one: I successfully deployed a TurboGears2 quickstart, and added a very simple web page that will allow client-side oauth2.0 authentication. I'm about to be late for a sitdown at Kodak Park, so I won't be able to expound upon the (many) merits of openshift and how easy it was to get this running, so suffice it to say, here is a link to the app: [Hello Facebook World, running on OpenShift](http://fb- fossrit.rhcloud.com/ ...