meanderings

Language Log »Up in ur internets, shortening all the words

“The business about word lengths [Fiennes claim that Twitter is shortening word-length] is the easiest to check of the article’s assertions about linguistic decay, and it’s false. Trivially and transparently so, as such plaints usually are.”

language, twitter

The Longest Poem in the World

The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.

It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.

digital poetics, generative, twitter

Christopher Baker

Murmur Study (2009) is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies

art, infoViz, installation, twitter

typoholism

“A disorder characterized by the excessive consumption of and dependence on type, leading to physical and psychological harm and impaired social and vocational functioning. Also called typographical abuse, font dependence. “