Blog of Ben Foden

Twitter’s short format is really excellent for finding and connecting with great thinkers. I have found these seven individuals to be some of the most fascinating and follow all of them with bated breath.

Without further ado and in no particular order:

1. @sfslim
   Name Aaron Muszalski
   Location San Francisco, CA
   Bio Burning Man builder, VFX artist/educator, polyglamorous social connector, DIY culture evangelist, anarcho-Dada Buddhist biker punk; I eat concepts & make things.




Just an eccentric guy who builds awesome stuff. Every single tweet I have ever read was about something totally new and interesting.




2. @27bslash6
   Name David Thorne
   Location Adelaide
   Web http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html
   Bio Amongst my qualities, which include reciting prime numbers backwards from 90956, reading to blind children & training seals, embellishment may be at the top.





Hilariously bitter and sarcastic wit. Really funny guy. Hilariously funny blog at the above url.




3. @fsjblog
   Name Fake Steve
   Location Cupertino, Calif.
   Web http://fakesteve.net
   Bio I run the coolest company in the world. I don’t want to be your friend. Deal with it.





Hilarious and sharp take on tech as if he were Steve Jobs with flair.




4. @rules_unbornson
   Name Walker Lamond
   Web http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/
   Bio Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool.





Excellent perspective with a classic but refreshing view on points of life and living.




5. @thomashawk
   Name Thomas Hawk
   Location San Francisco, CA
   Web http://thomashawk.com
   Bio Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light





Fantastic professional photography and video from the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area.




6. @tariqnasheed
   Name Tariq Nasheed
   Location Los Angeles
   Web http://macklessonsradio.com.





This guy is a so-called “game advisor” or “mack” or whatever you want to call it, but bottom line: he has some real insights about relationships and just dealing with people in general. Follow him and listen to his podcasts to learn more.




7. @shitmydadsays
   Name Justin
   Bio I’m 29. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says





This guy has the funniest and most charismatic S.O.B. for a father ever. It’s always hilarious.

Who are the fascinating people you follow? I would love to know so don’t hesitate to let me know @benfoden

As you may or may not know, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is on Nov. 9. This historic event was preceded by years of sadness, and in protest many citizens on the western side of the wall painted graffiti. Presumably because they had the time and would not be chased down and questioned by secret police for doing this. To commemorate the anniversary, TwitPaint and DeutschLern Net are holding a “Paint the Berlin Wall Contest.”

>Paint some graffiti on the berlin wall to protest in spirit. on twitter. instantly. Click Here.

Want to see some of the best entries in the contest so far? Check out the best graffiti on the Berlin Wall.

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Wie Sie vielleicht nicht wissen, ist der 20. Jahrestag des Falls der Berliner Mauer am 9. November. Dieses historische Ereignis wurde von der Trauer Jahre voraus, und aus Protest viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf beiden Seiten die Wand gemalt Graffiti. Um dies zu feiern, TwitPaint im Besitz einer “Paint Contest der Berliner Mauer.”

Paint einigen Graffiti auf der Berliner Mauer nach Ost Deutschland im Geiste zu protestieren. auf Twitter. sofort. Klicken Sie hier.

Willst du einige der besten Einsendungen des Wettbewerbs finden Sie so weit? Schauen Sie sich die besten Graffiti an der Berliner Mauer.

RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub are two ways of accomplishing one very simple goal:

RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub basically enable RSS Feeds to update in real time instead of periodically — and RSS Feeds are already installed on all modern blogs and content management systems on the web.

What does this mean?

Do you know how Twitter works in Real Time?  Whenever a person you follow posts an update to twitter it is immediately “pushed” to simultaneously update in every place where you might read it in “Real Time”.

This means that every blog on the internet is now capable of updating RSS Feed readers in real time, and has the potential to give everybody access to the content contained on the entire internet at the speed of a Twitter update.

From the technical side it means that instead of your feed reader having to periodically “poll” the content source to find any new updates, the content source has the power to host the update “in the cloud” and make it available almost instantaneously to anyone who may want to read / consume the content.

This is a huge paradigm shift in the flow of the internet and it will be extremely interesting to see how developers build new services to take advantage of this fact…

I don’t know about you but I just installed the RSSCloud Wordpress Plugin and I am pretty excited. =)

Update:

Here is a more detailed description from the RSSCloud website:

Three sided-cloud 

There are three sides to the cloud:

1. The authoring tool. I edit and update a feed. It contains a <cloud> element that says how a subscriber should request to notification of updates.
2. The cloud. It is notified of an update, and then in turn notifies all subscribers.
3. The subscriber. A feed reader, aggregator, whatever — that subscribes to feeds that may or may not be part of a cloud.