{"id":600,"date":"2009-03-09T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-03-09T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:36:48","slug":"twitter-for-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/twitter-for-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter for Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are tons of “Web 2.0” (or 2.1, or whatever) applications out there that I don’t really understand how to use.\u00a0 I know I have 154 connections on LinkedIn<\/a>, but I don’t know why.\u00a0 I have received a flurry of Plaxo<\/a> requests, but I can’t tell if that is more or less useful than LinkedIn.\u00a0 I’ve played with wikis and with wikipedia<\/a> (before deciding I didn’t want to spend my life arguing with non-OR people about the operations research page).\u00a0 And, of course, I have a blog<\/a>, and use lots of software to bring together various RSS feeds.\u00a0 But,except for the last, I am not sure if what I do is useful, or if it is just messing about to no purpose.<\/p>\n

One system that intrigues me is Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Every few months I tell myself that I should use Twitter more, and add a bunch of tweets for a day or so before lapsing back.\u00a0 Unlike the blog, I never found a voice for Twitter.\u00a0 I’m trying again, this time putting my tweets in a sidebar on the main page of this blog<\/a> (the sidebar is getting far too messy but maybe one more thing can fit in!).\u00a0 But why?\u00a0 About the most I can say is that this might give some people an idea of what a university professor does and perhaps give an outlet for quicker thoughts about the OR world than the blog does.\u00a0 I see people like Wil Wheaton<\/a> and Steve Baker<\/a> and I see them using Twitter in interesting ways. \u00a0 Could I find a similar path?<\/p>\n

Anyone else want to point the way on how Twitter can improve the world of operations research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are tons of “Web 2.0” (or 2.1, or whatever) applications out there that I don’t really understand how to use.\u00a0 I know I have 154 connections on LinkedIn, but I don’t know why.\u00a0 I have received a flurry of Plaxo requests, but I can’t tell if that is more or less useful than LinkedIn.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Twitter for Operations Research”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}