After seeing this Daring Fireball entry, this Kottke article, and then Alex Kerin’s original post, I had to write a script for generating Twitter sparklines via Unicode block characters.

Sparklines are an Edward Tufte idea, little inline graphs that let you visualize data within the text you’re reading. Twitter sparklines aren’t exactly true to Tufte’s vision, because they’re chunky and low resolution, but they are clever and fun.

You can see the Unicode block characters by opening the Character Viewer and clicking on the Geometrical Shapes category.

ThinkBack is a quick hack demonstrating the new Post API in ThinkUp, a free, open-source web app for capturing and analyzing your social network activity.

Qataki is a command line Identi.ca/StatusNet/Twitter client. It's a shell script that, besides usual UNIX utilities (like sed/awk/grep), depends on curl and ELinks (or Lynx if ELinks is not installed).

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Welcome to Twidge. Twidge is a tool for interacting with microblogging sites such as Twitter and identi.ca.

Twidge is a full command-line client. It is designed to be useful when you’re sitting at a shell prompt. It’s also designed to work well with the Unix/POSIX/Linux shell scripting environment. It produces output in well-formed and easily-parsed ways, and has various features for working with piped data.

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